{"id":207447,"date":"2025-12-28T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/207447\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T07:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:49:08","slug":"colorado-bests-vegas-6-5-in-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/207447\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Bests Vegas, 6-5, in Shootout\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vegas Golden Knights (17-8-11) fell to the Colorado Avalanche (28-2-7), 6-5, in a shootout on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena.  <\/p>\n<p>HOW IT WENT DOWN<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/player\/alexander-holtz-8482125\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Holtz<\/a> found the back of the net for his first goal of the season just 2:43 into the opening frame. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/player\/noah-hanifin-8478396\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Hanifin<\/a> fired a shot into the lane off a face-off win from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/player\/tomas-hertl-8476881\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tomas Hertl<\/a> where Holtz redirected the puck to give Vegas a 1-0 lead three the first period. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/player\/ivan-barbashev-8477964\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ivan Barbashev<\/a> extended the Golden Knights\u2019 lead to two 34 seconds into the second period. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/player\/mitch-marner-8478483\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitch Marner<\/a> and Barbashev carried the play down ice completing a give and go with Barbahsev sliding the puck past Scott Wedgewood for his 12th goal of the season. Colorado received two goals from Samuel Girard and Martin Necas five minutes apart to even the score at two. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/player\/ben-hutton-8477018\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Hutton<\/a> regained the lead for the Golden Knights with 9:24 remaining in the second period on a feed from Holtz off the wall for his fifth goal of the season with Hanifin picking up his second assist of the night. Just 29 seconds later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/player\/brett-howden-8479353\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brett Howden<\/a> deflected a shot from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/player\/reilly-smith-8475191\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reilly Smith<\/a> to push Vegas\u2019 lead back to two. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/player\/jeremy-lauzon-8478468\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Lauzon<\/a> sent the puck to Smith through the neutral zone while Smith handled the puck along the wall as Howden drove the middle lane to redirect the puck into the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>In the final frame, Necas recorded his second goal of the night followed by Nathan MacKinnon\u2019s league-leading 31st goal five minutes later to tie the game at four. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/player\/colton-sissons-8476925\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colton Sissons<\/a> put Vegas back in front with a backhand after up-ice feeds from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/player\/keegan-kolesar-8478434\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keegan Kolesar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/player\/kaedan-korczak-8481527\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaedan Korczak<\/a>. The Golden Knights couldn\u2019t hold the 6-on-5 push from the Avalanche as Artturi Lehkonen tied the game at five with an extra attacker on, sending the game to overtime. A scoreless extra frame pushed the game to a shootout where MacKinnon recorded the game-deciding tally to give Colorado the 6-5 shootout victory.  <\/p>\n<p>ATTENDANCE: 18,168LOOKING AHEAD<br \/>The Golden Knights continue their homestand when they take on the Minnesota Wild on Monday at 7 p.m. at T-Mobile Arena. Catch all the action on The Spot-Vegas 34, stream on <a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.knighttimeplus.com%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CVGK-GA%40vegasgoldenknights.com%7C591893a22ef749fe49dd08de40578ce6%7Ce333adc99d5049f69df36db430deb21c%7C0%7C0%7C639018941956472265%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=7Lz%2B0o0FnKxRsPGH45MuMf6AYYKJj8nlKhYSqa7AgOU%3D&amp;reserved=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KnightTime+<\/a>, or listen live on FOX Sports Las Vegas 94.7\/1340 and Deportes Vegas 1460.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vegas Golden Knights (17-8-11) fell to the Colorado Avalanche (28-2-7), 6-5, in a shootout on Saturday at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-207447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}