LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The Vegas Golden Knights beat the Dallas Stars on Saturday during the two teams' third and final meeting of the regular season.
Ahead of the game, the VGK were holding strong at 2-0-0 with one shootout win and one overtime victory against the Stars this season.
Dallas — who served as a major obstacle in the VGK's Quest for the Cup last year — also came into this matchup hot off a recent shootout win against the Washington Capitals. So far this season, the Stars are ranked fourth in the league for penalty kills.
During the game, Logan Thompson had 19 saves for Vegas, which had six goal scorers. Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger stopped 20 of 26 shots.
Chandler Stephenson would score the VGK's first goal of the game, placing him one goal away from 200 goals as a Golden Knight. This would be followed up by a wrist shot from Zach Whitecloud, marking a vital offensive drive from the defenseman in his 200th career game.
The Dallas Stars would finally find the net ten minutes into the first period with a snapshot from Evgenii Dadonov.
Team captain Mark Stone would respond with another snapshot to drive the VGK's lead even further ahead.
The second period would see a wrist shot from Keegan Kolesar bring the VGK to a 3-point lead over the Stars. Dallas would see multiple drives at the goal and numerous penalties without finding the net.
Pavel Dorofeyev and Paul Cotter would seal Dallas' fate with two more goals in the final period.
The win will allow the Vegas Golden Knights to improve to 18-5-5 for the season and 3-0-0 in all regular-season matchups with their former playoff rivals.
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