Five minutes that settled it
Vegas did its real work in a short window. Level at 1-1 after one period, the Golden Knights scored three times in 5:09 at the start of the second and went on to beat the Utah Mammoth 5-3 in Las Vegas overnight.
Victor Olofsson opened the burst on the power play at 3:07, snapping a wrist shot from the high slot past Sebastian Cossa’s glove. Ivan Barbashev then scored twice in 3:25. He finished an Olofsson feed into an open side of the net, then cut between Mikhail Sergachev and MacKenzie Weegar at the blue line and slipped a forehand-backhand move through Cossa’s pads for a 4-1 lead.
Olofsson ended the night with a goal and two assists. Mitch Marner set up three goals without scoring one.
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Utah pushed, Howden answered
Jack Eichel had given Vegas the lead at 2:15 of the first, roofing a power-play one-timer from the left circle. Lawson Crouse tied it midway through the period with his first goal since October 6, a backhand from a tight angle on the right side.
Utah kept coming after the second-period flurry. Jack McBain ripped one into the top corner late in the period, his first goal in 14 games, and Dmitri Simashev made it 4-3 midway through the third with a shot through a screen, his fourth goal in eight games. Brett Howden killed the momentum 72 seconds later, tipping in a William Karlsson shot. Carter Hart needed only 14 saves, and stopped McBain’s backhand after Utah pulled Cossa with 1:35 left.
Where it leaves both teams
Vegas has four wins in a row and a five-game point streak at 4-0-1. Utah closed a six-game, 14-day road trip at 2-3-1, with three straight games without a win (0-2-1) to finish it. Cossa made 23 saves on 28 shots.
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