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Vegas Golden Knights. Power Play explodes, other takeaways

By Andrew Steele-Davis

William Karlsson #71, Jonathan Marchessault #81 and Nate Schmidt #88 of the Vegas Golden Knights. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
William Karlsson #71, Jonathan Marchessault #81 and Nate Schmidt #88 of the Vegas Golden Knights. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) /
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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – FEBRUARY 13: William Karlsson #71, Jonathan Marchessault #81 and Nate Schmidt #88 of the Vegas Golden Knights celebrate after Marchessault scored a power-play goal in overtime to defeat the St. Louis Blues 6-5 during their game at T-Mobile Arena on February 13, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – FEBRUARY 13: William Karlsson #71, Jonathan Marchessault #81 and Nate Schmidt #88 of the Vegas Golden Knights celebrate after Marchessault scored a power-play goal in overtime to defeat the St. Louis Blues 6-5 during their game at T-Mobile Arena on February 13, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) /

It was a wild night at T-Mobile Arena on Thursday as the Vegas Golden Knights fought back to beat the St. Louis Blues 6-5 in overtime.

Jonathan Marchessault buried the game-winner in overtime for the Vegas Golden Knights in a game that featured a handful of lead changes.

After dropping consecutive losses, the Knights were knocked on the canvas by the Blues just 25 seconds into the game as Zach Sanford wired a shot from the circle past Malcolm Subban.

Vegas hit back quickly, however, as Max Pacioretty ripped a shot beyond Jordan Binnington and the forward tallied his second goal of the game at 6:34 in the first after jamming the puck into the net after the Blues failed to clear the zone.

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But St. Lous responded in what was a wild first period as Sanford scored with his backhand, before Mackenzie MacEachern deflected a shot past Subban.

Sanford then made it a two-goal game early in the second period as he recorded his first career hat trick, with the Blues seemingly in the driving seat.

However, as we’ve learnt already this year, there are plenty of twists and turns in games between these teams and that was proven to be the case again.

Jonathan Marchessault ripped a snipe past Binnington on the power play before the man advantage came up with the goods again early in the third period, Nate Schmidt unleashing a thunderous one-timer from the point to make it a tied game.

Sanford lit the lamp yet again, though, to give the Blues another lead, but Alex Tuch came up clutch in his 200th career game in the NHL to take the contest to overtime.

And, after absolutely dominating in overtime with seven shots to St. Louis’ 0, the Golden Knights had the last laugh as Marchessault blasted a shot on the rebound past Binnington for the game-winner.

It was a crazy game and we had some takeaways from the Vegas Golden Knights’ huge win over the St. Louis Blues…

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