Brett Howden scored two goals, including the winner of the third period, and Vegas Golden Knights defeated Minnesota Wild 4-2 in the 1st game of the first round of the Western Conference on Sunday night in Las Vegas.
Tomas Hertl had a goal and help, Adin Hill 18 Savees made and Pavel Dorofeyev scored a goal for Vegas, which rose to 9-2 on the playoff openers in T-Mobile Arena.
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Matt Boldy scored both Wild’s goals and Kirill Kaprizov helped both. Filip Gustavsson stopped 23 out of 26 shots.
After winning the Pacific Department with 110 points, Vegas, the second seed in the West, went ahead 1-0 in the 15:22 sign of the first period he played from the defender Brock Faber at the bottom of the left apartment. HERTL’s 26th career was playoff goals.
After winning the best Western conference Joker Card Point, Minnesota, the seventh seed, tied Kaprizov when he hit Boldy with a transition down the left wing. Boldy then threw a wrist into the remote pole to make 1-1.
Vegas, Dorofeyev’s Gustavsson’s glove by the middle of the right circle Dorofeyev’in a power game goal in the middle of the second period 2-1 ahead. Dorofeyev, who led the golden knights with 35 goals in the normal season, was the first career playoff goal.
Gustavsson stopped by both Brandon Saad and Jack Eichel during the period, while he was lucky that he fell with only one goal at the end of two wilds.
Howden rose to 3-1 in the 2:28 sign of the third period, with a wrist shot from the left apartment on the top of Gustavsson’s right shoulder.
Boldy cut Kaprizov up to 3-2 in the middle of the period when he collected a shot and retreated in a stroke in the left pole.
Minnesota drew Gustavsson for an extra attacker for an extra remaining attacker, but Boldy was sentenced to Open William Karlsson only 29 seconds later. Howden defeated the clock with an empty score in the power game 0.1 seconds before.
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