Tomas Hertl scored the go-ahead goal midway through the third period and also had an assist as the Vegas Golden Knights completed a four-game regular-season series sweep of the Anaheim Ducks with a 3-1 victory on Monday in Las Vegas.
The victory was the 119th for coach Bruce Cassidy with the Golden Knights, passing Gerard Gallant for the most in franchise history. Cassidy is 119-59-20 with the club. Gallant went 118-75-20.
Tanner Pearson had a short-handed goal and Keegan Kolesar added a goal and an assist for Vegas, which won its fourth straight game and prevailed for the eighth time in nine games.
Adin Hill made 31 saves for his 50th career win with Pacific Division-leading Vegas, which improved to 14-3-0 at home this season.
Mason McTavish scored a goal and Lukas Dostal, who entered the game with 2:28 to go in the first period after starting goaltender John Gibson was injured, finished with 19 saves for Anaheim. The Ducks were playing the second game of a back-to-back that began with a 5-4 shootout victory over the Utah Hockey Club in Salt Lake City on Sunday night.
Gibson stopped all 11 shots he faced before Vegas center Tanner Laczynski, spinning around to race back up ice, inadvertently caught the goalie in the right eye with his stick. Laczynski earned an interference penalty.
Vegas, which had allowed the first goal in five consecutive games, snapped that streak late in the first period on Pearson’s first goal in 12 games and fourth career short-handed goal. Alex Killorn turned the puck over in his own zone, and Pearson then fired a wrist shot from the high slot inside the left post at 19:19.
Anaheim tied it 1-1 at 1:13 of the third period when McTavish cut down the slot, took a pass from Radko Gudas and fired a wrist shot under Hill’s glove.
Hertl, alone in front of the net, put the Golden Knights back in front 2-1 at 9:36 of the third with backhand shot off a Jack Eichel pass from just inside the blue line.
Kolesar made it 3-1 with 4:10 to go when he redirected William Karlsson’s crossing pass inside the right post for his career-high ninth goal.
–Field Level Media
