{"id":300773,"date":"2026-05-05T12:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300773\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:58:22","slug":"vegas-golden-knights-defeat-anaheim-ducks-in-game-1-thanks-to-missed-icing-call-golden-knights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300773\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Golden Knights defeat Anaheim Ducks in Game 1 thanks to missed icing call | Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call it experience playing until the final whistle, or the Force being with the Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> on Star Wars Day.<\/p>\n

Either way, they benefited from it and find themselves ahead in the series.<\/p>\n

Ivan Barbashev broke a tie with 4:58 to go after the linesman appeared to waive off a potential <\/a>icing<\/a>, and the Knights held on to defeat the Anaheim Ducks 3-1 in Game 1 of their second-round series at T-Mobile Arena on Monday.<\/p>\n

Game 2 is Wednesday at T-Mobile.<\/p>\n

Center Jack Eichel was in lockstep with Anaheim defenseman Jackson LaCombe and appeared to lose the race to the puck.<\/p>\n

The call was waved off, play continued and Barbashev scored on a weak-side finish from Pavel Dorofeyev to give the Knights a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just tried to put the puck deep, and I think I saw Jack on the far side,\u201d Barbashev said. \u201d I thought for a second he bit him, and that\u2019s why they waived it off. I thought Jack put pressure on him and he turned it over, and Pav made a great play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officials declined postgame to make a comment on the decision to wave off icing.<\/p>\n

Brett Howden scored his fifth goal in the last four games, and Mitch Marner had a goal and an assist, giving the Knights their fourth straight win since falling behind 2-1 in the first round to the Utah Mammoth.<\/p>\n

Carter Hart made 33 saves<\/a> and carried a shutout into the third for the second game in a row.<\/p>\n

Ducks center Mikael Granlund tied it with 6:03 remaining off a pass from LaCombe through traffic. Barbashev broke the tie 1 minute, 5 seconds later.<\/p>\n

\u201cClearly, I disagreed with the call,\u201d Ducks coach Joel Quenneville said. \u201cTheir guy stopped skating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given the way both teams played in the first round, you\u2019d expect more up-and-down action.<\/p>\n

The Ducks had that, to a degree, in the first period. They were the ones with odd-man rushes and dangerous scoring chances.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were the better team tonight,\u201d coach John Tortorella said.<\/p>\n

But Hart, who played well in the three straight wins to close out the Utah series, was up to the task early with 11 saves in the opening 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

Hart kept his teammates in it as they slowly tried to break through Anaheim\u2019s pressure and get their puck management back in order.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was our best player tonight,\u201d Tortorella said.<\/p>\n

The Knights powered through at 3:14 of the second with Howden scoring for the fourth straight game with a backdoor tap-in from Marner.<\/p>\n

The Ducks\u2019 best chance came off an unreal effort from center Leo Carlsson after Howden\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old spun away from Noah Hanifin, cut to the left circle and found LaCombe alone for an apparent easy goal.<\/p>\n

But he passed up the open net and instead gave it to winger Troy Terry, who was stopped by Hart.<\/p>\n

Center William Karlsson played 11:03 in his return to the lineup<\/a> after missing nearly six months with a lower-body injury. Karlsson had one shot and went 7-of-13 in the faceoff circle.<\/p>\n

Defenseman Ben Hutton also made his postseason debut in place of the injured Jeremy Lauzon (upper body), but the veteran defenseman was held to a team-low 8:41 of ice time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone in our locker room is satisfied with that win,\u201d Marner said. \u201cWe know we have to be better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Contact Danny Webster at dwebster@reviewjournal.com.<\/a> Follow @DannyWebster21<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Call it experience playing until the final whistle, or the Force being with the Vegas Golden Knights on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-300773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}