Akira Schmid made 24 saves for his first shutout of the season to lead the Vegas Golden Knights to a 1-0 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday night in Las Vegas.
Ivan Barbashev scored the game’s lone goal for Vegas, which won for just the second time in its last five games (2-2-1).
It was the second career shutout for Schmid, who improved to 6-1-0. The first came with New Jersey in February 2023, a 7-0 blanking of the Philadelphia Flyers.
John Gibson stopped 33 of 34 shots for Detroit, which finished 3-2-0 on its five-game road trip.
Scoring chances were few and far between during a tight-checking scoreless first 25 minutes. Detroit then had a chance to take the lead on a Lucas Raymond snap shot from the slot but the puck grazed off the outside of the left post.
Gibson, who dropped to 6-19-5 in his career against the Golden Knights, came up with a big save midway through the period on Brandon Saad, who drove to net from the right wing but Gibson blocked his close-in wrist shot with left shoulder.
Vegas finally broke through to take a 1-0 lead at the 13:45 mark of the second when Barbashev, stationed in front of the crease, backhanded in a rebound of a Saad shot over Gibson’s right pad for his fourth goal.
The Golden Knights appeared to make it 2-0 with 4:54 to go in the game when Jeremy Lauzon fired in a wrist shot from the left circle off a Brett Howden drop back pass. However, Detroit coach Todd McLellan successfully challenged that Howden was offside entering the zone on the play and, after a lengthy review, the goal was taken off the scoreboard.
Detroit pulled Gibson for an extra attacker with two minutes to go but the Red Wings failed to garner a shot on goal.
–Field Level Media
