2. High-danger goals<\/p>\n
Under Tortorella, the Golden Knights lead the NHL in high-danger goals this postseason (29) and rank third in high-danger shots on goal (105). Vegas forwards Pavel Dorofeyev<\/a> and Brett Howden<\/a> each scored a high-danger goal in Game 1 against Colorado and are tied for the NHL lead in high-danger goals (six each).<\/p>\n Mitch Marner<\/a>, who\u2019s Vegas\u2019 top Conn Smythe Trophy contender this postseason, ranks third in high-danger goals (five). Over Marner\u2019s previous four postseasons combined with the Toronto Maple Leafs dating back to the start of the puck and player tracking era (since 2021-22), Marner only scored one high-danger goal, making him another success story under Tortorella. Marner is also tied for ninth in high-danger shots on goal this postseason (13).<\/p>\n In addition to Vegas\u2019 penalty kill prowess, the team has also carried over its strong power play into the playoffs under Tortorella. The Golden Knights have the best power-play percentage among remaining teams (27.0) after ranking sixth during the regular season (24.6). Vegas, as a team, leads the playoffs in goals (48) and has three of the League leaders in goals: Dorofeyev (10; first), Howden (nine; second) and Marner (seven; tied for third).<\/p>\n Vegas also has scoring threats from perimeter shooting zones. Dorofeyev is tied for second in midrange goals this postseason (three), and Theodore is tied for eighth in midrange goals (two; second among defensemen behind Bowen Byram\u2019s<\/a> three). Theodore also leads the playoffs in long-range shots on goal (19) and leads remaining players in 80-plus mph shot attempts (21).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2. High-danger goals Under Tortorella, the Golden Knights lead the NHL in high-danger goals this postseason (29) and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-685622","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\/685622","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=685622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}