The Vegas Golden Knights took down the Anaheim Ducks, 5-1, in Game 6 of the Second Round series on Thursday night at Honda Center to win the series, 4-2, and clinch their spot in the Western Conference Finals.<\/p>\n
HOW IT WENT DOWN TOP PERFORMERS Pavel Dorofeyev: Dorofeyev lit the lamp twice and recorded his fifth goal in three games, taking the lead for the most goals in the league this postseason with nine.<\/p>\n Brett Howden: Howden notched his eighth goal of the playoffs, second only to Dorofeyev for the most in the NHL.<\/p>\n Shea Theodore: Theodore netted his 19th playoff goal since joining the Golden Knights, the most by any defenseman in club history.<\/p>\n Carter Hart: Hart saved 31 of the 32 shots he faced in the victory, and his eight wins this postseason are tied for the most in the NHL.<\/p>\n SERIES AT A GLANCE VGK STATS OF THE KNIGHT Marner became the second Golden Knight in club history to register a multipoint outing in consecutive series-clinching games.<\/p>\n Brett Howden has potted three short-handed goals, tying the NHL record for most in a single playoff run.<\/p>\n Howden has scored in five straight road games, tied for the longest run of its kind in Vegas history.<\/p>\n Pavel Dorofeyev became the second player in Vegas history to record back-to-back multi-goal games in the playoffs.<\/p>\n The Golden Knights have recorded 12 series-clinching wins in their franchise history, the most in the NHL since 2017-18<\/p>\n WHEN\u00a0VGK WINS, YOU WIN! LOOKING AHEAD
Mitch Marner<\/a> gave the Golden Knights an early lead with a breakaway goal just over a minute into the contest after he received a long stretch pass from William Karlsson<\/a> and went backhand-forehand through his legs to beat Lukas Dostal. Brett Howden<\/a> doubled Vegas\u2019 lead at 8:30 of the first period with his league-leading third short-handed tally of the playoffs after taking a backdoor feed from Marner. Vegas stretched their lead to 3-0 with 2:41 remaining in the frame as Tomas<\/a> Hertl<\/a>\u2019s offensive-zone draw win directed to Shea Theodore<\/a> at the blue line, who fired a wrist shot top-shelf past Dostal. The Ducks cut Vegas\u2019 advantage to 3-1 when Mikael Granlund converted with 7:14 left in the second period. Pavel Dorofeyev<\/a> restored the three-goal edge just under three minutes into the final frame with a wrist shot from the right circle after a forecheck takeaway and dish from Ivan Barbashev<\/a>. Dorofeyev followed up with his second goal of the night with 6:28 remaining to put Vegas up, 5-1. Carter Hart saved 31-of-32 shots to seal the series-clinching victory.<\/p>\n
Mitch Marner: Marner\u00a0tallied a goal and an assist to extend his league-leading point total to 18 (7G, 11A).<\/p>\n
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Game 1:\u00a0Vegas Golden Knights 3,\u00a0Anaheim Ducks 1 |\u00a0HIGHLIGHTS<\/a>
Game 2: Anaheim Ducks 3, Vegas Golden Knights 1\u00a0|\u00a0HIGHLIGHTS<\/a>
Game 3:\u00a0Vegas Golden Knights 6,\u00a0Anaheim Ducks 2 |\u00a0HIGHLIGHTS<\/a>
Game 4: Anaheim Ducks 4, Vegas Golden Knights 3 |\u00a0HIGHLIGHTS<\/a>
Game 5: Vegas Golden Knights 3, Anaheim Ducks 2 OT |\u00a0HIGHLIGHTS<\/a>
Game 6 Vegas Golden Knights 5, Anaheim Ducks 1\u00a0| HIGHLIGHTS<\/a><\/p>\n
Mitch Marner\u2019s seven goals in the postseason are tied for the second-most in Vegas franchise history for a player in his first year.<\/p>\n
Fans can receive six free boneless or traditional wings at any Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant location throughout the greater Vegas metro area with a $10+ qualifying pre-tax purchase of food and non-alcoholic beverages, available for two days after any 2025-2026\u00a0VGK Win.<\/p>\n
The Golden Knights travel to Colorado to face off with the Avalanche in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals on Wednesday, with puck drop set for 5 p.m. PT. Tune into the Pregame Show on Vegas 34 and then catch all the action on ESPN. Listen live on FOX Sports Las Vegas 94.7\/1340 and Deportes Vegas 1460.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vegas Golden Knights took down the Anaheim Ducks, 5-1, in Game 6 of the Second Round series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-672112","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\/672112","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=672112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}