Dylan Strome scored the tying aim within the third interval and the game-winner within the shootout to provide the Washington Capitals a 5-4 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday night time in Las Vegas.
Strome, who hit the submit on the primary shot of the sport, tied it at 4-all halfway via the interval with a power-play tally, one-timing a shot from the center of the correct circle to snap a 17-game aim drought. He then scored the one aim of the shootout at first of the primary spherical, roofing a backhand shot previous Adin Hill.
Justin Sourdif had a aim and an help, Cole Hutson had two assists and Hendrix Lapierre and Anthony Beauvillier additionally scored objectives for Washington (37-28-9, 83 factors), which is 4 factors again of the second and remaining wild card within the Japanese Convention. Logan Thompson completed with 25 saves and stopped all three photographs he confronted within the shootout.
Jack Eichel scored a aim and had two assists, Rasmus Andersson had a aim and an help and Nic Dowd and Mitch Marner additionally scored for Vegas (32-26-16, 80 factors), which misplaced its third straight sport and its sixth within the final seven. Hill made 17 saves for the Golden Knights, who fell three factors behind second-place Edmonton within the Pacific Division.
Washington took a 1-0 lead on the 6:06 mark of the primary interval when Lapierre fired a wrist shot previous Hill’s blocker facet.
Sourdif made it 2-0 early within the second interval with a power-play aim. Connor McMichael arrange the rating with a go from the correct goal-line to Sourdif chopping down the slot the place he one-timed a shot previous Hill’s blocker facet.
Lower than 4 minutes later, Beauvillier deflected a spinning wrist shot from the left circle by Ryan Leonard to extend Washington’s result in 3-0, the eighth time within the final 16 video games that the Golden Knights fell behind 3-0 in a contest.
However Vegas rallied to tie it later within the interval with three objectives, together with two short-handed, within the span of two:40.
Dowd, acquired by Vegas on March 5 from Capitals, began the comeback along with his fifth profession short-handed aim, stealing the puck from Leonard within the slot in entrance of the Washington web after which snapping a shot by Thompson’s stick facet.
Andersson adopted with one other short-handed aim simply 25 seconds later, driving via the Capitals protection and tucking in a forehand shot round Thompson’s left pad. It marked the second time in staff historical past that Vegas scored two short-handed objectives on the identical penalty kill. Brayden McNabb and Eichel additionally carried out the feat on Dec. 27, 2024, in opposition to San Jose.
Eichel tied it at 3-all along with his first aim in eight video games when he snapped a rebound of an Andersson shot previous Thompson’s glove facet at 13:18.
Vegas took the lead 31 seconds into the third interval on a power-play aim by Marner, who fired some extent shot from contained in the blue line previous Thompson’s blocker facet.
–Area Stage Media
