{"id":572391,"date":"2026-03-31T07:05:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/572391\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:05:58","slug":"golden-knights-rally-defeat-canucks-in-tortorellas-debut-as-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/572391\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights rally, defeat Canucks in Tortorella’s debut as coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rasmus Andersson<\/a>, Shea Theodore<\/a> and Reilly Smith<\/a> scored, and Adin Hill<\/a> made 22 saves for the Golden Knights (33-26-16), who had lost three in a row (0-1-2) and six of seven (1-4-2).<\/p>\n

Vegas is in third place in the Pacific Division, one point behind the Edmonton Oilers, who have one game in hand, and six points ahead of the Los Angeles Kings, who have two in hand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe messaging was different. Structurally, we were pretty similar,\u201d Smith said. \u201cThere\u2019s an added emphasis on playing faster, and as the game went on, that kind of tracked a little bit better with us. We played faster and created some opportunities off it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Evander Kane<\/a> scored in his 1,000th\u00a0NHL game for the Canucks (21-44-8), who have lost six in a row. Kevin Lankinen<\/a> made 30 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew they were going to come out hard, and they were finishing their checks,\u201d Vancouver coach Adam Foote said. \u201cIt was nice for [Kane] to get that goal early. We had some jump there. … Special moment for (Kane) and his family. That\u2019s a milestone that\u2019s tough to get, and it\u2019s nice to see him get that and get a goal tonight as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kane gave the Canucks a 1-0 lead at 12:19 of the first period. He took a pass from Jake DeBrusk<\/a> on a 2-on-1 rush, moved the puck to his backhand and tucked a shot past Hill, who was moving the other way.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was nice to have the support of all the guys,\u201d Kane said. \u201cThey were excited for me, which made it special, and obviously, getting the first goal of the game was a little cherry on top. It\u2019s nice to be able to have a nice moment in that milestone game. Just a special moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rasmus Andersson, Shea Theodore and Reilly Smith scored, and Adin Hill made 22 saves for the Golden Knights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-572391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}