Mark Stone had a objective and an help because the visiting Vegas Golden Knights continued their dominance of the San Jose Sharks with a 4-2 victory on Tuesday evening.
Zach Whitecloud, Victor Olofsson and Tomas Hertl additionally scored targets and Shea Theodore added two assists for Vegas, which gained its third straight sport and for the ninth time in 10 video games. The Golden Knights, who lead the NHL with 59 factors, improved to 27-2-5 all-time towards the Sharks within the common season, together with 14-0-3 in San Jose.
Ilya Samsonov made 20 saves to win his sixth consecutive begin for Vegas, which additionally improved to 22-3-2 in video games towards Western Convention groups and 14-2-1 towards Pacific Division foes.
William Eklund had a objective and an help and Timothy Liljegren additionally scored for San Jose, which had a two-game win streak snapped, Alexandar Georgiev completed with 38 saves.
Vegas jumped out to a 2-0 lead whereas scoring twice within the span of 89 seconds halfway by way of the primary interval.
Stone opened the scoring when he outmuscled Cody Ceci for a Theodore stretch cross on the San Jose blue line after which broke in and fired a wrist shot previous Georgiev’s glove aspect for his a hundredth objective in 300 video games with the Golden Knights.
Whitecloud then made it 2-0 when he slid a wrist shot from the sting of the precise circle beneath Georgiev’s pads.
San Jose, regardless of being outshot 18-4 within the second interval, reduce the result in 2-1 halfway by way of the interval on a power-play objective by Eklund, who one-timed a Collin Graf cross from beneath the hash marks previous Samsonov’s glove aspect.
Vegas prolonged the lead again to 2 targets on the 1:10 mark of the third interval on a power-play objective by Olofsson, who roofed a Jack Eichel backhand crossing cross from the precise face-off dot. It was Eichel’s forty second help of the season, matching a profession excessive.
Liljegren made it 3-2 halfway by way of the interval with a power-play objective, whipping in a wrist shot from left level off the left submit and in.
The Sharks pulled Georgiev for an additional attacker and Hertl sealed the win with 1:20 to go together with an empty-netter off a cross from Stone, who had stolen the puck from Macklin Celebrini.
–Discipline Stage Media