Vegas beat Colorado 2-1 on Tuesday night, completed an unthinkable sweep and reached its third Stanley Cup Final in nine seasons, the Associated Press reported via Yahoo Sports. [1]

The result turns a management gamble into a clean narrative only after the fact: the Golden Knights fired Bruce Cassidy with eight regular-season games left, hired John Tortorella, went 7-0-1 to close the regular season and then moved through Utah, Anaheim and Colorado. [1]

That is why the story is more than a series recap, because a Presidents' Trophy Avalanche team entered the playoffs as the stable power while Vegas entered with the kind of late intervention that usually reads like panic. [1]

X will make the sweep sound inevitable because hindsight is free; the institutional lesson is less romantic, since the same decision that would have looked reckless after a first-round exit now looks like executive nerve only because the scoreboard ratified it. [1]

The sweep also rewrites the Avalanche side of the story, because a Presidents' Trophy team that arrived as the bracket's proof of regular-season order becomes the foil in a Vegas case study about how quickly a front office can turn crisis management into a parade route. [1]

-- AMARA OKONKWO, Lagos