Vegas on Monday night grabbed back control of its Western Conference semifinal against San Jose by outlasting the Sharks 4-3 in overtime at the SAP Center.
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The Golden Knights and San Jose move a best-of-seven playoff series to SAP Center for Game 3 on Monday, this after a double-overtime game was highlighted by one of the more debatable calls in hockey.
Vegas for much of Saturday night tried to be something it’s not and paid an ultimate price, a 4-3 double-overtime loss to San Jose in Game 2 of a best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal series.
Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals was televised live and in prime time on NBC audience. It was first time the Golden Knights skated in front of a national TV audience.
They don’t throw chickens onto the ice at the RDV Sportsplex in Maitland, Florida, where Golden Knights forward Ryan Carpenter skated growing up. Not yet anyway.
The 21-year-old forward is very much part of the narrative that has Vegas in the Western Conference semifinals, where it leads San Jose 1-0 in a best-of-seven series and hosts Game 2 on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena.
Want to make your favorite Las Vegas bookie squirm? Tell him you have seen the parade route for the Golden Knights after they win the Stanley Cup.
Marc-Andre Fleury is 5-0 in the postseason for the Golden Knights, the goaltender having stopped 160 of 163 shots in 330 minutes.
The temperature is expected to rise into the 90s when the Golden Knights and San Jose Sharks finally get around to dropping the puck in their Western Conference semifinal series at T-Mobile Arena, but it should still be cool inside.
James Neal is back winning in the playoffs — he has 84 postseason games on his NHL resume — and is again among those counted on to lead Vegas against the San Jose Sharks in the Western Conference semifinals.
There is a saying that the only permission, the only validation, the only opinion that matters in a quest for greatness is our own, and it’s one Vegas seemed to adopt as the wins piled up this season.
Handicapper Dana Lane sees the series going seven games, but with apologies to Knights fans, predicts the Sharks will prevail in a Game 7 at T-Mobile Arena.
Some hockey pundits are billing the Knights vs. San Jose Sharks Western Conference semifinal series as speed vs. speed, but Eddie Olczyk isn’t one of them.
Allen Iverson, who once delivered an iconic rant about practice when he was with the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers, can relate to what has been going on with the Golden Knights.
New hockey fan Dee Dravnieks traveled 9,538 miles from Perth, Australia, to spend most of the past three weeks with her favorite team, the Golden Knights.