There was a happy ending to the three-game road trip for the Vegas Golden Knights after they edged the Chicago Blackhawks in a Shootout on Tuesday night.
After shutting out the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday but then following that up with an ugly 6-2 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday night, the Vegas Golden Knights were able to find their legs in the second game of a back-to-back and grind out an important win.
It looked to be heading in the opposite direction, however, with Kirby Dach‘s first-ever goal in the National Hockey League the only one on the scoreboard heading into the third period.
Marc-Andre Fleury, as he has done through the first three weeks of the 2019-20 NHL regular season, absolutely dominated and stood on his head for the Golden Knights, making a plethora of sublime saves, including a stunning stop to rob Patrick Kane.
However, Mark Stone did Mark Stone things to find Nick Holden with a sublime dish at 18:27 in the third period, and the defensemen one-timed the puck through Robin Lehner‘s five-hole with Fleury pulled for an extra skater.
Vegas were gifted a 4-on-3 power play in Overtime and nearly took advantage of it thanks to Max Pacioretty, although the forward was absolutely robbed by Lehner.
That consigned the game to a Shootout and Vegas defenseman Shea Theodore emerged as the hero following some filthy moves before backhanding the puck past Lehner, while Fleury also made some big saves as he did during regulation.
Here were our three main takeaways from the Vegas Golden Knights’ 2-1 Shootout success over the Chicago Blackhawks…