{"id":668059,"date":"2026-05-13T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668059\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:05:10","slug":"golden-knights-edge-ducks-in-ot-in-game-5-on-verge-of-western-conference-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668059\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights edge Ducks in OT in Game 5, on verge of Western Conference Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

The goal came after Olen Zellweger<\/a>\u00a0tied it 2-2 for Anaheim with 3:05 remaining in the third period when he scored bar down from the left dot.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Zelly\u2019 made a great play there and was able to get himself open and make a great shot,\u201d Ducks forward Cutter Gauthier<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cHe\u2019s been extremely disciplined with how he carries himself on and off the ice. This whole season, and when he had his name called these last handful of games, he was ready to go. Kudos to him for having a great mindset these last few months, and it obviously pays off with the big goal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vegas leads the best-of-7 series 3-2 and can advance to the Western Conference Final with another victory in Game 6 at Honda Center in Anaheim on Thursday (9:30 p.m. ET; HBO MAX, truTV, TNT, SN360, SN, TVAS).<\/p>\n

\u201cOur guys are going to be excited about it. It\u2019s a fun opportunity. We got no pressure,\u201d Ducks coach Joel Quenneville said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to come out and play hard and simple at home, get excited about the home crowd, and it\u2019s a one-game to get back and to play one more. So that\u2019s our mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tomas Hertl<\/a> had a goal and an assist, and Eichel had two assists for the Golden Knights, the No. 1 seed from the Pacific Division. Carter Hart<\/a>\u00a0made 34 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cHigh marks for the whole team tonight,\u201d Golden Knights coach John Tortorella said. \u201cI\u2019m proud of the team tonight, getting down after losing (Brayden McNabb<\/a>) on one of our top ‘D.’ He played three minutes, and we found a way to get things done to get away. Really proud of the hockey players.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beckett Sennecke<\/a> scored in his fourth straight game of the series, and Gauthier and Mason McTavish<\/a> each had two assists for the Ducks, the No. 3 seed from the Pacific. Lukas Dostal<\/a>\u00a0made 29 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a tight game. Obviously, lots of chances each way,\u201d Zellweger said. \u201cI think (Dostal) played phenomenally. So, there\u2019s that, and then we need to just reset, and we know what we need to do next game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The goal came after Olen Zellweger\u00a0tied it 2-2 for Anaheim with 3:05 remaining in the third period when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-668059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}