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With tonight’s win, Dallas has taken the lead in this semifinal with 2-1 in games.
But it went wrong in third period.
Vegas won the shots 18-4 and tied at 2-2 after 12:46. and had offers for additional purposes.
After Tuesday’s 3-0 win, many thought the Golden Knights would take over the game series, but Stars came back strong and got their revenge.
– We were definitely not happy with the performance last time around and we knew we needed to improve our game. And play more aggressively, said team captain Jamie Benn.
That’s exactly what Dallas did, and it was Benn who led the attacks.
He slapped tough Las Vegas Ryan Reaves early in the game and also threw a series of strong tackles, among others, Las Vegas defender Brayden McNabb.
Radulov decided long term
The first period was goalless and the same result seemed to occur in the intermediate period.
William Karlsson had a great opportunity to give Vegas the lead with just over a minute to play when he landed a free kick, but Anton Khudobin saved.
With just 17 seconds left in the period, Jamie Oleksiak was able to break Lehner’s zero after one run and managed to get the puck between the protection of Lehner’s left leg and the post.
Shea Theodore tied on the power play early in the second period, but Jamie Benn scored between the leg guards over Lehner after an open position in the left technical circle after just over seven minutes.
William Karlsson then played Alex Tuch for the 2-2 goal. The hit was debated when Dallas coach Rick Bowness felt that Las Vegas forward Mark Stone had collided with Khudobin.
But after reviewing the video, the case was approved and Dallas received a two-minute suspension as punishment for a “failed challenge.”
The game went into overtime and had just 31 seconds when Dallas decided after Radulov was released from the right during a flying substitution from the Las Vegas players, which left the Russian unmarked.
– We had a chance to decide and take home this game at the end of the third period, but we couldn’t find the holes despite all the shots, Las Vegas coach Peter DeBoer later commented.
Robin Lehner: “I need to clean up”
The Golden Knights need offensive stars Reillly Smith and Jonathan Marchessault to start if they are to have the strength to turn this semifinal against a strong-playing Dallas.
They won the shots with a total of 40-23 and Robin Lehner commented on the loss afterwards saying, among other things:
– We need to clean up some details in our game and make sure they don’t get the same open positions in the next match.
Of course, he was referring to all of Star’s goals, which came after what is called a “rare men’s race.”
Lehner had kept a clean sheet in the previous two games and is the only goalkeeper in this year’s playoffs to have four “zeros” so far.
