BOSTON (AP) — Tomas Hertl scored with 70 seconds left — lower than a minute after Vegas had a aim waived off for goaltender interference — and the Golden Knights rallied for a 4-3 victory over the Boston Bruins on Saturday.
Mark Stone had a power-play aim for the Golden Knights, and Pavel Dorofeyev and Zach Whitecloud additionally scored. It was their second straight victory after a four-game skid.
Boston captain Brad Marchand reached the 20-goal mark for his twelfth straight season. Nikita Zadorov and Morgan Geekie additionally scored for the Bruins, and Jeremy Swayman made 34 saves.
Bruins star David Pastrnak prolonged his level streak to 13 video games with an help.
Boston opened a 3-1 lead on Geekie’s seventeenth aim with 4:53 left within the second interval. However Whitecloud scored within the closing seconds of the second, and Dorofeyev beat Swayman with a wrist shot from the fitting circle 4:45 into the third.
Marchand scored 3:17 into the opening interval, banging in a shot from the sting of the crease off a pleasant feed from Zadorov.
Takeaways
Golden Knights: Closed out a 2-2 street journey. They had been coming off a 3-1 victory over New Jersey on Thursday.
Bruins: Pastrnak has been terrific, however he has some work to do to match the team-record level streak of 20 video games, set by Bronco Horvath from December 1959 to February 1960.
Key second
With Vegas on an influence play, Hertl turned within the slot and beat Swayman with a wrist shot for his twenty first aim.
Key stat
The Golden Knights entered changing on 27.3% of their power-play probabilities this season. They went 2 for 4.
Up subsequent
With the NHL’s two-week break for the 4 Nations Face-off, the Golden Knights can be off till Feb. 22 after they host Vancouver, and the Bruins host Anaheim that very same day.
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