FOG BLOG SPORTS LOG: VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS WITH 18 CANADIANS ON TEAM, WIN STANLEY CUP!

Mark the five-star Uber driver perks up when he learns you’re lucky enough to be heading to the rink for Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final.

Like pretty much every Las Vegas local whose path you cross, Mark is a diehard Golden Knights fan. And once Mark and his buddies figure out which watch party to take in the big, loud, unaffordable, final hockey game, he’ll turn off the meter in favour of history.

Big screens and sunscreen.

Maybe the watch party in Henderson. Or Summerlin. Or the wild pool party one. Or …

“Since they came in 2017,” Mark said, “they changed the city in a good way.”

What Mark and the thousands of other giddy desert dwellers witnessed Tuesday inside T-Mobile Arena was less of a game and more of a coronation. A historic 9-3 home-ice romp for Vegas over the banged-up, overmatched Florida Panthers. A bass-driven, ear-popping, showgirl-dancing exclamation point on a five-game series that never truly felt in doubt.

Gold meets silver.

Knights turned kings.

The house always wins.

Huzzah!