Despite losing to the New York Islanders in overtime on Thursday, the Vegas Golden Knights still finished their east coast road trip with an impressive five points from a possible six.
It was an important week for the Vegas Golden Knights who are starting to hot up, and they gave as good as they got against a very good Islanders team.
There were no goals in a first period that was dominated by the Isles, who outshot the Knights 13-8 and Vegas had Malcolm Subban to thank for staying alive in the game.
The Islanders did land the first blow of the night early in the second period, as Cal Clutterbuck walked in on an odd-man rush before wristing a shot past Subban.
Vegas were hanging on in there, though, and they made it a tied game late in the second when Alex Tuch recorded his seventh point in four games after lasering a snipe over the shoulder of Semyon Varlamov.
Brock Nelson did give the Islanders the lead again in the third period, but Jonathan Marchessault tallied his fourth goal in his last two games to take the contest to overtime.
However, the Golden Knights gifted their hosts a power play and the Islanders took full advantage of it thanks to Ryan Pulock, who had plenty of open ice to drive to before wristing the game-winner past Subban.
It was a tough loss for the Golden Knights who managed to hang with the Islanders despite being outplayed for most of the game, but it was a well-earned point.
Let’s go through some takeaways from the loss to the New York Islanders…