Golden Knights cash in with 4-goal third period to beat Canadiens
Nick Suzuki and Cole Caufield trotted out to centre ice previous to Saturday’s recreation in opposition to the Vegas Golden Knights to gather the Molson Cup for October.
And so they confirmed why they deserved the honour as Suzuki scored twice and Caufield had a purpose and an help to take a few of the sting away from a 6-4 loss on the Bell Centre. They supplied the main offensive help for Jake Allen, who saved the Canadiens within the recreation for 2 intervals earlier than the Golden Knights exploded for 4 targets within the third interval.
Suzuki tied the sport at 2-2 when he took a return go from Kirby Dach and scored his seventh purpose of the season 56 seconds into the third interval. Dach, who’s proving to be the right complement to Caufield and Suzuki on the highest line, picked up his third help when Suzuki scored his eighth purpose later within the interval.
However the Golden Knights took the lead for good at 4:45 within the third interval when Reilly Smith scored his second purpose of the night time on an influence play. He buried the rebound of a shot by Phil Kessel.
Keegan Kolesar, Nicolas Roy and Jonathan Marchessault scored the opposite third-period targets for Vegas.
Caufield pulled the Canadians even at 1-1 within the latter levels of the primary interval with an help from Dach, who was on the left wall when he noticed Caufield motoring up the fitting wing. Dach threaded a cross-ice go by site visitors and Caufield beat Adin Hill with a shot contained in the close to put up for his eighth purpose of the season.
The purpose got here 51 seconds after the Golden Knights took benefit of a miscue by Joel Edmundson to open the scoring at 13:25. Edmundson’s clearing try wound up on Nicolas Hague’s stick and the defenceman beat Allen with a slap shot from the blue line.
Rookie Juraj Slafkovsky scored the opposite Montreal purpose.
The Golden Knights moved into one other gear within the second interval and, whereas they took a 2-1 lead on an early purpose by Smith, Allen was the one motive the sport didn’t get utterly out of hand.
The Golden Knights outshot the Canadiens 16-9 within the interval, however these numbers mirrored a late surge by Montreal. The Canadiens didn’t get their first shot of the interval till Christian Dvorak examined Hill with 8:09 remaining. At that time, Vegas had a 15-0 edge in photographs.
Allen needed to be notably sharp throughout the one energy play within the interval. He stopped 5 photographs and acquired a bit assist from David Savard, who blocked a shot.
The goaltender didn’t have a lot of an opportunity on the Reilly purpose. Jordan Harris was the one defender again on a 2-on-1 break and William Karlsson slid a backhand go throughout to Reilly on the left aspect.
The Canadiens journey to Detroit for a recreation Tuesday and are again on the Bell Centre the next night time to play the Vancouver Canucks.
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