Vegas leads the best-of-7 series 2-1 with Game 4 here on Sunday (9:30 p.m. ET; ESPN, SN360, SN, TVAS).<\/p>\n
It was Marner\u2019s second multigoal game of these playoffs, and second in the past four games. He has six goals in nine games in this year\u2019s playoffs, his first with Vegas after coming over in a sign-and-trade with the Toronto Maple Leafs on July 1.<\/p>\n
Before this postseason, he had 13 goals in 70 postseason games, and two multigoal games for the Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n
That led to plenty of people talking, as Tortorella put it, about his and the Maple Leafs\u2019 failures in the playoffs in his nine seasons there.<\/p>\n
But to Tortorella\u2019s point, when Marner was asked if his play in this year\u2019s postseason is giving him any personal satisfaction, he said, \u201cno, not really.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a lot of work to still go. It\u2019s always nice to contribute and help win games, but at the end of the day, you just want to win games. So, there\u2019s been a lot of different moments in these playoffs that people have stepped up and made big plays. And tonight, a lot of great plays by people around me to set me up in a spot I can succeed in.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think all of us just want to win hockey games and do whatever we can to win hockey games, so that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to try to keep doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vegas, which was coming off a 3-1 loss in Game 2, jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead on goals from defenseman Shea Theodore<\/a>\u00a0at 1:06 of the first period and a short-handed goal from defenseman Brayden McNabb<\/a>\u00a0at 12:13, on an assist from Marner.<\/p>\n With time winding down in the first period, Marner began his barrage. With 4.6 seconds left in the period, he cut down the middle, took a shot that bounced in and out of Ducks goalie Lukas Dostal<\/a>\u2019s glove, and banged home the rebound for a power-play goal.<\/p>\n He was just getting started.<\/p>\n He finished a pretty play with Theodore and Brett Howden<\/a> at 9:19 of the second period, maneuvering around the outstretched pad of Ducks goalie Ville Husso<\/a>\u00a0— who started the second period — to make it 4-0.<\/p>\n He capped the second playoff natural hat trick in Golden Knights history when he beat Husso short side under the pad at 17:56 of the period.<\/p>\n \u201cSuper happy for him,\u201d said Karlsson, who returned to the Vegas lineup and was put on a line with Marner and Howden in Game 1 of this series after not playing since Nov. 8. \u201cHe had a hell of a game. A timely game, to have three goals. He\u2019s a great player and super easy to play with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vegas leads the best-of-7 series 2-1 with Game 4 here on Sunday (9:30 p.m. ET; ESPN, SN360, SN,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-657848","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\/657848","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=657848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}