:''Note: The numbers in parentheses represent each player's total goals or assists to that point of the entire playoffs.''
Game one scored a goal and two points in game one. In game one, Florida began the scoring with a shorthanded goal by
Eric Staal, scored on a wrap-around attempt. Vegas tied the game on a separate power play with
Chandler Stephenson setting up
Jonathan Marchessault's wrist shot beating
Sergei Bobrovsky. In the second period,
Shea Theodore's long range shot found its way past Bobrovsky, giving Vegas a 2–1 lead. With ten seconds remaining and a faceoff in the Golden Knights zone, the Panther's
Anthony Duclair picked up a loose puck and fired a wrist shot past Hill to make it 2–2. In the third period, the Golden Knights led a rush into the Panther's zone with a shot by
Ivan Barbashev deflecting back to
Zach Whitecloud who scored for Vegas to make it 3–2. Later in the period,
Matthew Tkachuk's clearing attempt was knocked down by Vegas captain
Mark Stone, who shot it past Bobrovsky for a 4–2 lead. Florida challenged the play as Stone's stick could have been above his shoulders, which would have been a stoppage of play. Florida was unsuccessful in their challenge and assessed a minor penalty. With frustrations boiling over for Florida, both
Matthew Tkachuk and
Sam Bennett were called for misconducts for attempting to fight some of the Golden Knights.
Reilly Smith then sealed Vegas' victory with an empty net goal to make it 5–2. The victory broke Florida's road-winning streak at eight games.
Game two scored two goals, including one on the power play, and three points in game two. In the first period of game two, the Golden Knights scored first on the power play as
Jonathan Marchessault shot through a screen to beat the Florida goaltender over the shoulder. Later in the period, with Vegas in possession in the Florida zone,
Alec Martinez shot past
Josh Mahura's block attempt and the puck went to the top of the net for a 2–0 lead. During the second period,
Nicolas Roy gave Vegas a 3–0 lead, shooting the puck under
Sergei Bobrovsky's blocker.
Brett Howden then forced Florida to swap Bobrovsky for backup
Alex Lyon, scoring forehand-backhand on Vegas' thirteenth shot. Following a hit on
Jack Eichel,
Matthew Tkachuk and
Ivan Barbashev both exchanged misconduct penalties for fighting after the whistle. In the third period, the Panthers ended
Adin Hill's shutout bid as
Anton Lundell scored just 14 seconds in. Vegas regained their four-goal lead as an all-alone Marchessault received a pass from
Mark Stone and wristed a shot past Lyon.
Michael Amadio then provided the sixth goal for Vegas, beating Lyon for a 6–1 lead. Tkachuk then brought the lead back down to four as his first goal of the series beat Hill. Later in the period, with Florida releasing their frustration, Vegas gained a power play. During the power play, Howden's second goal of the game ended any hopes of a Florida comeback, scoring to give Vegas a 7–2 lead, also the final score of the game.
Game three Back in Florida for game three,
Brandon Montour began the scoring for the Panthers in the first period as his shot from the left circle beat
Adin Hill. Vegas was able to tie the game during a 4-on-3 power play when
Jonathan Marchessault's shot got tipped in by
Mark Stone. In the second period, Vegas gained another power play, during which
Jack Eichel passed across to Marchessault who shot past
Sergei Bobrovsky into the top-left corner for a 2–1 Golden Knights lead. In the third period, with the Florida goaltender pulled for an extra attacker,
Matthew Tkachuk scored on a rebound from
Carter Verhaeghe to tie the game 2–2. With the game in overtime, Verhaeghe fired a wrist shot past Hill giving Florida a 3–2 victory and their first win in the Stanley Cup Final in franchise history.
Game four (left) scored two goals in game four. In game four, Vegas began the scoring 1:39 into the first period as
Zach Whitecloud made a cross-ice pass to
Chandler Stephenson, who maneuvered through all Florida defenders and shot the puck past
Sergei Bobrovsky. Stephenson continued his scoring into the second period as a pass by
Mark Stone found its way to the forward whose one-timer beat Bobrovsky for a 2–0 Vegas lead. Following soon after,
William Karlsson picked up
Nicolas Hague's rebound shot and gave the Golden Knights a 3–0 lead. With less than four minutes remaining in the period, Florida defenceman
Brandon Montour shot the puck at the net and it deflected off
Brayden McNabb and
Shea Theodore past
Adin Hill to cut Vegas' lead to two goals. Florida then cut their deficit to one goal as the Panthers rushed into the Vegas zone, Montour backhanded a pass to captain
Aleksander Barkov whose fired past Hill from the right circle. Vegas maintained their 3–2 lead, including fending off a power play with 17.4 seconds left, as Hill stopped 29 of 31 shots to give the Golden Knights a 3–1 series lead.
Game five In game five, the Golden Knights began the scoring on a shorthanded rush as
Mark Stone outwaited
Sergei Bobrovsky to beat him on the glove side. The Golden Knights doubled their lead as
Jack Eichel's shot bumped over Bobrovsky's shoulder and got covered, but was quickly poked away. With the free puck,
Nicolas Hague scored for Vegas. The Panthers made it 2–1 early in the second period as
Nick Cousins forced a turnover in the Vegas defensive zone and passed it to defenceman
Aaron Ekblad whose long range shot made its way into the net. The Golden Knights recovered their two-goal lead as a stretch pass by
Alex Pietrangelo made its way to Eichel who then dropped a pass to
Alec Martinez and he shot it past Bobrovsky.
Reilly Smith soon gave the Golden Knights a 4–1 lead as he fired in a between-the-legs pass from
William Karlsson. Stone's second goal made it 5–1 as a
Chandler Stephenson-led rush led to a cross-ice pass from
Brett Howden, which Stone then shot between Bobrovsky's pads for his second goal of the game.
Michael Amadio extended the Golden Knights lead to 6–1 with two seconds remaining; after pushing the puck towards the Panthers goaltender and being pushed himself into the net by a Panther defenceman, the puck found its way under Bobrovsky and in. In the third period, Vegas made the game a rout, with
Ivan Barbashev scoring Vegas' seventh goal of the game. Florida brought their deficit down to five when a quick shot by
Sam Reinhart hit the top corner past
Adin Hill.
Sam Bennett then dropped Florida's deficit to four goals as his long range shot was deflected into the net. With approximately six minutes remaining in the game, Florida head coach
Paul Maurice opted to go for an empty net. However, Stone scored on the empty net to complete his hat trick, making it 8–3. His hat trick, the 40th to occur in the Stanley Cup Final, was the first since
1996, which was also against the Panthers, and the first to occur in a Cup-winning game since
1922.
Nicolas Roy potted Vegas' ninth goal of the evening with 1:02 remaining to seal the Golden Knights victory and their first Stanley Cup. Vegas' nine goals set a new record for goals scored in a Cup-clinching game, surpassing the 8–0 score by which the
Pittsburgh Penguins clinched the title in
1991, and tied the record for most goals by a team in a Final's game, previously set by the
Detroit Red Wings in
1936 and later matched by the
Toronto Maple Leafs in
1942.
Jonathan Marchessault was awarded the
Conn Smythe Trophy as most valuable player of the playoffs, Vegas became the second fastest team to win the Stanley Cup as an expansion franchise, following the
Edmonton Oilers in
1984. Marchessault,
William Carrier,
William Karlsson,
Brayden McNabb,
Reilly Smith, and
Shea Theodore were the only players from the Golden Knights'
expansion draft,
inaugural season, and
2018 Stanley Cup Final campaign to remain with the team up until the Stanley Cup victory; this group of players earned the collective monikers "Golden Misfits" and "Original Misfits". The win gave the state of
Nevada and the
Las Vegas metropolitan area its first ever major (
North American "Big Four") men's professional sports championship, and the first ever championship for a North American Big Four men's professional sports team founded in the 21st century.
Chandler Stephenson, who previously defeated Vegas for the Cup in 2018 as a member of the
Washington Capitals, became the third player of the
expansion era to win a Cup with a team he previously defeated for it, joining
Scott Niedermayer (with
New Jersey in
2003 and
Anaheim in
2007) and
Billy Carroll (with the
New York Islanders in
1983 and
Edmonton in
1985). Meanwhile, the Panthers were one of two South Florida teams to lose major championships within two days, as the
Miami Heat also lost the
2023 NBA Finals to the
Denver Nuggets one day prior. ==Team rosters==