{"id":589987,"date":"2026-04-08T09:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/589987\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:57:08","slug":"golden-knights-edge-canucks-pull-into-tie-for-pacific-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/589987\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights edge Canucks, pull into tie for Pacific lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hart kept it tied with an extended right pad robbery of Elias Pettersson<\/a> on a rebound atop the crease after a 3-on-2 rush shot by Drew O’Connor<\/a>\u00a0with 23 seconds left in the period.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot a busy game, but probably one of the harder games he’s played in as an NHL player,\u201d Dowd said. \u201cHe didn’t see a lot of work, and then all of a sudden he sees action with like 10 seconds left and he makes a massive save, because that would have been a tough one to eat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tolopilo answered with a right pad save on Pavel Dorofeyev<\/a>\u00a0alone atop the crease at 4:20 of the third period but Smith put Vegas ahead 2-1 at 12:13 with a shot from the top of the right circle that hit a defender\u2019s stick at the release and went in under Tolopilo\u2019s pad.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The play started with Smith, whose only other goal in 17 games since being acquired in a March 3 trade from the Nashville Predators was into an empty net, forcing Canucks forward Liam Ohgren<\/a>\u00a0into a turnover coming out of his end. Dowd, who has four points (one goal, three assists) in 16 games since being acquired in a March 5 trade from the Washington Capitals, won a battle along the boards to get the puck back to Smith for the shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoing the hard things, right?\u201d Dowd said. \u201cIt’s a simple play. He turns a puck over, we put their \u2018D\u2019 in a tough spot, kind of in between a little bit, and then \u2018Smitty\u2019 gets rewarded by jumping the hole and shooting the puck and scoring a goal. It’s nothing that doesn’t happen a ton of times a game, but you keep doing it over and over and over, you’re going to get your chances, and it’s up to you to capitalize.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vancouver didn\u2019t get its first shot of the third period until 14:01 and finished with 11 shots, a new season low, including just two on a 6-on-4 advantage for the final 1:41 after pulling Tolopilo following a Vegas penalty.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn’t give them much. Their goaltender played really well, but it’s just one of those games that it can get away from you, and that’s what I like about our team, they stayed with it,\u201d Tortorella said.<\/p>\n

NOTES: Saad assisted on McNabb\u2019s goal and finished plus-1 with three shots on six shot attempts in 13:25 playing his first game after 13 as a healthy scratch. \u2026 The Golden Knights have won seven in a row against the Canucks dating back to Dec. 19, 2024, their second-longest active streak versus one opponent. \u2026 It was the second fewest shots in a game in team history for Vancouver, who only had eight shots in a 2-1 loss against the New Jersey Devils on Dec. 18, 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hart kept it tied with an extended right pad robbery of Elias Pettersson on a rebound atop the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-589987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589987","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=589987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}