Vegas is bound for the postseason, a fact stamped with a 4-1 win against visiting Colorado on Monday evening.
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Bill Foley’s NHL expansion team clinched a playoff berth in its first season Monday with a 4-1 win over Colorado and has 48 wins and 103 points with six games remaining.
They’re in. William Karlsson reached 40 goals when he scored into an empty net with 15.4 seconds remaining and the Golden Knights officially clinched a playoff berth with a 4-1 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Monday at T-Mobile Arena.
The Golden Knights’ Deryk Engelland was on the ice Monday morning as was Oscar Lindberg, who practiced for the first time since being injured Feb. 26.
The Golden Knights can become the first expansion team to reach the playoffs in its inaugural season since 1967-68 with a victory over Colorado on Monday.
The Golden Knights’ rookie right wing Alex Tuch has 13 goals and 31 points as the team closes in on the NHL playoffs.
Deryk Engelland missed his second game of the season Saturday. Whether the Golden Knights defenseman is injured or resting prior to the playoffs, only the team knows.
New linemates have helped Colorado forward Nathan MacKinnon rebound after three sub-par seasons.
Colorado’s Gabriel Landeskog scored the lone goal in the shootout, and the Golden Knights lost 2-1 in a shootout to the Avalanche on Saturday afternoon at Pepsi Center.
Injured goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury, who rejoined the Golden Knights on Friday, joked that his absence had more to do with daytime TV than his health.