- Jordan Staal scored again in Game 5, giving him a goal in all five games of the Cup Final
- He is the first player to score in five straight Final games since Yvan Cournoyer in 1973
- Read below for the goal and the record the Hurricanes captain just tied
Jordan Staal cannot stop scoring.
The Hurricanes captain beat Vegas again on Thursday night in Game 5, his sixth goal of the Stanley Cup Final. It also gave him a goal in his fifth straight game of the series, a feat no player had pulled off in more than 50 years.
Here is the goal that kept the streak alive:
That run tied the NHL record for the longest goal streak in a Stanley Cup Final. The league made sure to point it out:
Nobody had scored in five consecutive games of a Final since Yvan Cournoyer, who did it for Montreal back in 1973. The company before him includes Maurice Richard and Jean Beliveau. That is the kind of history Staal walked into on Thursday.
What makes it stranger is the gap. Staal is 37 years old, and his Game 1 goal came 6,202 days after he last scored in a Cup Final, all the way back when he won it with Pittsburgh in 2009. That number broke a record held by his brother Eric.
He had already set the tone earlier in the series. Staal scored twice in Game 4, including the late winner that pulled Carolina even.
Whatever the rest of this series holds, Staal has already built one of the great individual runs the Cup Final has ever seen.
