Akira Schmid made 17 saves and Tomas Hertl had two assists as the Vegas Golden Knights snapped the New York Rangers’ six-game road winning streak with a 3-2 victory on Tuesday night in Las Vegas.
Braeden Bowman, Ben Hutton and Shea Theodore scored the goals for Vegas, which snapped a four-game home losing streak (0-2-2). The Golden Knights are 2-0-2 in their past four games overall.
Jonny Brodzinski and Vincent Trocheck scored and Igor Shesterkin finished with 23 saves for New York, which took just its second regulation loss in 12 road games (9-2-1).
Vegas grabbed a 1-0 lead 11:40 into the game on a power-play goal by Bowman, his second tally in four career contests. Mitch Marner whipped a shot from the point that Hertl deflected into the pads of Shesterkin. The rebound then caromed to the bottom of the left circle, where Bowman roofed a wrist shot.
The Golden Knights extended the lead to 2-0 early in the second period on Hutton’s wrist shot from the left circle that trickled through Shesterkin’s pads. It was Hutton’s first goal since March 19, 2024, in a 5-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning.
New York made it 2-1 midway through the second period when Brodzinski slammed in a rebound of a Will Cuylle shot at the end of a 2-on-1 break.
Theodore put Vegas back up by two goals at the 7:18 mark of the third period with a power-play goal, ripping a wrist shot from above the left circle past the double screen of Reilly Smith and Colton Sissons and past Shesterkin’s glove side. The score came just seconds after Schmid made a pad save on Cuylle at the end of a 2-on-1 short-handed rush.
Brodzinski appeared to have his second goal of the night when he jammed in a rebound with 7:22 to go, but Vegas successfully challenged that Mika Zibanejad was offside on the play.
The Rangers pulled Shesterkin for an extra attacker with 2:58 remaining, and 15 seconds later, Trocheck cut the lead to 3-2. He redirected Artemi Panarin’s point shot past Schmid’s left pad.
New York pulled Shesterkin again with 1:55 left, but Schmid made three saves down the stretch to seal the win.
–Field Level Media
