Montreal Canadiens beat Vegas Golden Knights, advance to club's 1st Stanley Cup Final since 1993

Montreal defeated the Vegas Golden Knights 3-2 in Game 6 at home in overtime on Thursday to continue its improbable run.Artturi Lehkonen scored the winning goal 1:39 into OT.No Canadian team has hoisted the Stanley Cup since Montreal won in 1993. The Canadiens were also without their head coach, Dominique Ducharme, the last four games of the series because he is isolating after positive COVID-19 tests.Ducharme has been chatting via video with the team throughout his absence, including a call in the celebratory locker room on Thursday night.Richardson, an assistant coach, ran the bench since Game 3 in this series; he is technically considered the interim interim coach, as Ducharme replaced Claude Julien when he was fired in February.Montreal captain Shea Weber, who has played in 1,083 regular-season games over 16 seasons, will play in the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in his career. Richardson said earlier in the playoffs, Ducharme had some of the veterans who had been to and won a Stanley Cup Final before (Corey Perry, Joel Edmundson, Eric Staal and Jake Allen) address the team.Weber, 35, was also among the speakers that day."It really resonated with the young guys don't take it for granted, and that time goes by really fast, and it's really hard to get where we are now, and where we're going," Richardson said.