Sharks snap 11-game skid vs Vegas with 5-4 shootout win
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Thomas Bordeleau scored the one aim in a shootout to raise the San Jose Sharks to a 5-4 win over the Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday evening.
Vegas squandered a 4-2 lead with somewhat greater than two minutes left in regulation, as Nick Bonino scored his second aim of the sport at 17:54 of the third interval and Timo Meier added the equalizer with 0.9 seconds remaining to silence what moments earlier than was a raucous crowd of 18,367.
The Golden Knights outshot San Jose 6-1 in additional time, however Sharks goalie James Reimer was stellar in retaining every part out of the web.
The loss severely broken Vegas’ playoff hopes with three video games left within the season. Dallas can remove the Golden Knights by beating them in regulation Tuesday.
Tomas Hertl additionally scored for San Jose. Reimer stopped 42 photographs.
Chandler Stephenson and Nic Roy every had a aim and an help, and Max Pacioretty and William Carrier additionally scored for Vegas. Logan Thompson made 25 saves.
The Sharks snapped an 11-game dropping streak in opposition to Vegas.
With loads of visitors in entrance of Thompson’s internet, Hertl snapped a unfastened puck high shelf to present the Sharks a 1-0 lead simply previous the halfway level of the primary interval.
Vegas wasted no time with its first power-play alternative moments later. The Golden Knights had been capable of get the puck to the entrance of the web, and after Mark Stone’s preliminary shot was stuffed by Reimer, Stephenson was there to smack dwelling the rebound to make it 1-all.
The Golden Knights got here out firing with early stress within the second, however Reimer was excellent in stopping their first 5 photographs. Pacioretty then dared the problem of a 1-on-3 rush.
Leaking by means of the Sharks and darting round San Jose defenseman Nicolas Meloche with an influence transfer to the within, Pacioretty snapped the puck into the higher nook to present Vegas a 2-1 lead.
Later within the interval, Vegas ahead Keegan Kolesar delivered a nifty drop cross through backhand throughout the slot, the place Service was in place to deposit a welcome-back aim after lacking the earlier 10 video games, pushing the Golden Knights’ result in 3-1.
Bonino made it a one-goal sport late within the second when he tipped within the redirect of Jaycob Megna’s shot from the purpose.
Shortly after failing to transform on its third energy play, Vegas was capable of hold the stress within the Sharks’ zone. Exhibiting unbelievable persistence behind the web, William Karlsson fed Roy within the slot for an ideal alternative to notch his fifteenth aim of the season and put the Golden Knights in entrance 4-2.
UP NEXT
San Jose: Hosts Anaheim on Tuesday.
Vegas: Begins a season-ending, three-game highway journey in Dallas on Tuesday.
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W.g. Ramirez, The Related Press
