Paul Stastny scored at 1:52 of overtime after teammate Max Pacioretty had tied the game with three-tenths of a second left in regulation as the visiting Vegas Golden Knights rallied for a 4-3 victory over the Nashville Predators on Wednesday night.
Stastny and defenseman Nate Schmidt took off on a two-on-none break after Nashville turned the puck over in its own zone. Schmidt came down the left wing and then slid a pass over to Stastny at the bottom of the right circle, where he fired a shot between the pads of goaltender Juuse Saros.
Vegas got into overtime by pulling goaltender Malcolm Subban for an extra attacker with 1:05 remaining, and Pacioretty tied it with a shot from the bottom of the right circle off a feed from Mark Stone that just beat the buzzer.
Pacioretty, Stone and Reilly Smith each had a goal and an assist, and Schmidt added two assists for Vegas, which snapped a three-game losing streak as well as a five-game road losing streak.
With Marc-Andre Fleury leaving the team to tend to a family illness in Montreal, Subban made his second consecutive start and finished with 31 saves to pick up his first win in seven games (1-4-2) this season.
Matt Duchene and Mikael Granlund each had a goal and an assist, Ryan Ellis scored a goal, and Roman Josi had two assists for Nashville. Saros finished with 26 saves.
Stone gave Vegas its first lead in four games at the 7:33 mark of the first period when he scored his 11th goal of the season when Pacioretty kicked a bouncing puck to him by the left corner of the net, where a fired a shot past the glove of Saros.
Smith made it 2-0 with his first goal in nine games, taking a stretch pass from Schmidt near the blue line and then breaking in and flipping a backhand past Saros' glove side for his 11th goal of the season.
Granlund cut it to 2-1 just 39 seconds later, tapping in a feed from Josi in front of crease for his fourth goal of the season. Ellis then tied it 4 1/2 minutes later when he took a Josi pass in front of the net, deked Subban and put in a backhand shot into the left side of the goal for his fourth goal of the season.
Duchene gave the Predators a 3-2 lead early in the third period when he one-timed a Granlund pass from the middle of the right circle for his seventh goal of the season.
--Field Level Media
Vegas | Nashville | |
Max Pacioretty 2 | Points | Matt Duchene 2 |
Max Pacioretty 1 | Goals | Matt Duchene 1 |
Nate Schmidt 2 | Assists | Roman Josi 2 |
N/A | Power Play Goals | N/A |
N/A | Short Handed Goals | N/A |
Malcolm Subban .912 | Save Percentage | Juuse Saros .867 |
Malcolm Subban 31 | Saves | Juuse Saros 26 |
Team | Shots | Goals | Power Play | Penalty Kill | Penalty Mins | Face Offs Won |
Vegas | 30 | 4 | 0-2 | 2-2 | 4 | 29 |
Nashville | 34 | 3 | 0-2 | 2-2 | 4 | 31 |