William Karlsson scored two goals, including the game-winner with 1:18 remaining, as the Vegas Golden Knights rallied from a two-goal deficit by scoring four consecutive goals to hand the Utah Hockey Club a 4-2 loss on Friday night in Salt Lake City.
Karlsson redirected Kaeden Korczak’s shot from the right point over the right shoulder of Utah goalie Karel Vejmelka to break a 2-2 tie and give Vegas its first lead of the game. He then sealed the win with an empty-netter with 28.2 seconds to go. Karlsson also added an assist.
Tomas Hertl scored a pair of power-play goals and Jack Eichel had two assists for Vegas, which improved to 11-0-1 on Dad’s trips with its second straight road win. It was the ninth multi-point game of the season for Eichel, who moved into a tie for second in the NHL with 22 assists, behind Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon. Adin Hill finished with 32 saves.
Logan Cooley and Mikhail Sergachev scored goals and Vejmelka made 25 saves for Utah.
Utah took a 1-0 lead at the 11:16 mark of the first period on Cooley’s third goal of the season, a one-timer from the high slot into the top right corner. However, Utah was unable to score unable, despite finishing the period with a 16-9 edge in shots on goal.
Sergachev made it 2-0 almost seven minutes into the second period with a power-play goal, his fourth of the season. Sergachev was left alone in the high slot and then slowly crept in before firing a wrist shot past Hill’s glove side.
Vegas cut it to 2-1 at the 13:37 mark of the second period on a power-play goal by Hertl, who cut down the slot and then backhanded a pass from Nicolas Roy in off the right post. It marked the fifth straight game that the Golden Knights scored a power play goal.
The Golden Knights tied it early in the third period when Hertl converted a Karlsson feed from the bottom of the left circle for his seventh goal, six of which have come on the power play.
–Field Level Media
