LAS VEGAS (AP) Logan Couture’s second goal of the game
Lars Eller Jersey , on the power play at 5:13 of the second overtime, lifted the San Jose Sharks to a 4-3 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on
Saturday night, tying their Western Conference semifinal series at one game
apiece.The Golden Knights, who lost for the first time in six playoff games,
thought they won in the first overtime when Jonathan Marchessault’s backhand
sailed past Jones with 3:02 left, but officials ruled there was goaltender
interference when Marchessault ran into Jones’ blocker and spun him around
before his shot.Brent Burns also scored two goals and Martin Jones stopped 26
shots for San Jose, which was playing without suspended forward Evander
Kane.William Karlsson scored twice, while Nate Schmidt got his first of the
postseason to tie the score at 3-3 with 6 1/2 minutes left in the third period.
Marc-Andre Fleury finished with 43 saves.Game 3 is Monday night at San
Jose.BRUINS 6, LIGHTNING 2TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – Rick Nash and Patrice Bergeron each
scored twice to lead Boston past Tampa Bay in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference
semifinal series.Brad Marchand had a goal and two assists, David Pastrnak
finished with four assists and Bergeron also had one to give their line 10
points in a dominating performance.Tuukka Rask stopped 34 shots for the Bruins,
who finished one point behind Tampa Bay for the Atlantic Division title, as well
as the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference.Dan Girardi and Mikhail Sergachev
scored for the Lightning, who trailed 3-2 entering the third period. Andrei
Vasilevskiy finished with 18 saves.Game 2 is Monday night at Amalie Arena.— LAS
VEGAS (AP) For the second consecutive game, the Vegas Golden Knights looked like
the same team that was so dominant for much of the season.Jonathan Marchessault
scored his 23rd goal and the Pacific Division leaders defeated Vancouver 4-1 on
Tuesday night to hand the slumping Canucks their seventh straight loss.But while
12 players had points for expansion Vegas, mystery surrounded the status of
starting goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury, who exited after one period. Fleury took
a shot from Brandon Sutter off the mask midway through the first, but finished
the period.Fleury
Madison Bowey Jersey , credited with the victory after making seven saves to improve to 27-11-3, took over sole possession of 12th place on the NHL’s
career wins list with 402. The 14-year veteran missed 25 games this season after
suffering a concussion four games in.”I haven’t heard (anything) yet. The
trainers told me he’s not coming back tonight,” said Vegas coach Gerard Gallant,
who confirmed it was not the plan to rest the three-time Stanley Cup champion
netminder after one period of play.Malcolm Subban took over in net at the start
of the second, making his first appearance since Feb. 2, when he lost in
Minnesota. Subban made 22 saves.”I’m not too sure what happened (with Fleury),
they just told me I was going in,” said Subban, who found out he would replace
Fleury midway through the first intermission. ”I felt pretty good, I guess. The
game felt pretty fast. It’s been a long time since I played a game. When you’re
out for that long you can’t wait to get back in the net.”Cody Eakin,
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and Tomas Tatar also scored for Vegas, which ranks
second in the league with 245 goals.Vancouver got a goal from Sutter, and Jacob
Markstrom stopped 24 shots. Markstrom dropped to 18-26-6 after losing his fifth
straight start. He has allowed 14 goals during that skid.Vancouver fell to
6-17-1 against Pacific Division teams. It came into the game with the league’s
fifth-best road power play at 21.9 percent but was 0 for 1 on Tuesday.The
Canucks have dropped seven straight since losing 21-year-old rookie star Brock
Boeser to a potential season-ending back injury. Boeser leads Vancouver with 29
goals and 55 points. The Canucks have scored just seven goals in the seven games
since his injury, and were shut out in three consecutive games.”Their team came
ready to play tonight. That’s a good hockey team,” Vancouver coach Travis Green
said. ”When you get down 2-0 early and 3-0 after one, you’re not going to come
back against a team like that – or, we’re not. It’s frustrating to lose. The
players are frustrated. I don’t blame them. I think it’s a combination of not
scoring … and losing.”Vegas earned its 26th win at home, one more victory than
Vancouver has overall this season.Now the Golden Knights prepare for a two-game
road trip with Fleury’s status uncertain
Nicklas Backstrom Jersey , beginning at red-hot San Jose, which defeated New Jersey 6-2 on Tuesday. The second-place Sharks are eight points behind the
Golden Knights in the Pacific Division.Marchessault, who ended a personal
drought when he scored four minutes into the game, said removing Fleury was a
precautionary move and he didn’t believe it was anything serious.”It was a smart
decision,” Marchessault said. ”We’re winning 3-0, there’s 10 games left. It’s
the way it goes sometimes. It’s something that happened, and Sooby did good. He
came back and was really in shape. He looked really good out there. It’s
something (where) we’re lucky in that group. We’re confident with either goalie
that’s going to be in.”Eakin scored less than a minute after Marchessault, and
Bellemare added his goal just before the end of the period.”As soon as we
realized that Soob was going in, the only thing we were thinking was, we talked
to each other in the locker room saying let’s make sure we’re strong for him,”
Bellemare said. ”Soob hasn’t played in a while, he needed us to play a strong
defensive game in front of him. We managed pretty well.”After blocking six shots
in the first period, the Golden Knights finished with 17.Tatar smacked home his
own rebound to extend the lead to 4-0 with 5:39 left in the second. Sutter got
his seventh of the season when he used a wrist shot to sneak the puck through
Subban’s legs midway through the third.NOTES: Gallant is one win from 200 in his
career. … The teams meet one more time, on April 3. Vegas has won the first
three meetings by a combined score of 15-6. … Former Golden Knights forward
Brendan Leipsic has six points (two goals, four assists) over the past 10 games
with the Canucks. … Former baseball slugger and Las Vegas resident Frank Thomas
was among the 18,214 in attendance.UP NEXTVancouver: Plays at Chicago on
Thursday.Vegas: Plays at San Jose on Thursday.—
