The Swede scored the decisive 3–2 halfway into the last period after Matthew Samoskevich served the puck with a chip right in front of the goal.
That's what we wanted, to take those two points. It was a fantastic evening, to hoist the flag and all that, says Boqvist to nhl.com.
The evening began with the hoisting of the team's second consecutive championship flag in the ceiling of Amerant Bank Arena, in front of about 20,000 spectators. The cries to bring home a third echoed between the walls while Aaron Ekblad glided onto the ice with the Stanley Cup buckle in his hands.
After a somewhat shaky start, the audience could note that the first step towards that dream has been taken. Despite missing both team captain Aleksander Barkov and the superstar Matthew Tkachuk due to injuries.
