The report says Pavel Dorofeyev scored his second goal of the game at 4:10 of overtime to give Vegas a 3-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks, moving the Golden Knights a victory away from advancing to the Western Conference final.
The report says Game 6 of the second-round series will be Thursday night at Anaheim, and that the Golden Knights can reach the conference final for the first time since winning the Stanley Cup in 2023. The Ducks, making their first playoff appearance in eight years, will try to force a Game 7 back in Las Vegas on Saturday, the report says.
The report says Tomas Hertl, who had gone 29 games without a goal dating to the regular season, now has two goals in two games and recorded the primary assist on Dorofeyev’s first-period power-play goal. Jack Eichel had two assists, including the primary assist on the overtime winner, per the report. Goaltender Carter Hart stopped 34 shots, the report says.
The report says Anaheim defenseman Olen Zellweger scored his first career playoff goal from the left circle to tie the game at 2 with 3:05 left in regulation. Beckett Sennecke extended his goal streak to four games with a power-play score, and the report says Mason McTavish and Cutter Gauthier each had two assists while Lukas Dostal made 29 saves.
The report says the Ducks’ power-play goal by Sennecke came off a rebound. Dorofeyev’s earlier goal came after he took the puck from Chris Kreider, shifted to the slot and snapped a shot past Dostal, the report says. Hertl’s rebound goal at 4:48 of the third period nearly held up before Zellweger used extended offensive-zone time to force overtime, per the report.
The report says Ducks center Ryan Poehling was helped off the ice after a hard check into the boards by Vegas defenseman Brayden McNabb nearly midway through the first period. McNabb received a five-minute major for interference and was given a game misconduct, costing the Golden Knights a first-pair blueliner, the report says.
