LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Beckett Sennecke, Leo Carlsson and Jansen Harkins scored, Lukas Dostal came 5.6 seconds from his first career playoff shutout and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Vegas Golden Knights 3-1 on Wednesday night to even their series at a game apiece.<\/p>\n
The Ducks head home with the chance to grab hold of the best-of-seven second-round NHL playoff series, with Game 3 on Friday night. Vegas hopes to pull off a repeat of its first-round series when the Golden Knights went to Utah at 1-1 before winning in six games.<\/p>\n
Sennecke, a finalist for the Calder Memorial Trophy that goes to the league\u2019s top rookie, became the fourth Ducks player 20 or younger to score multiple goals in a postseason.<\/p>\n
Dostal saved 23 shots and nearly had his third career shutout, including regular-season play, before Mark Stone scored a power-play goal in the closing seconds.<\/p>\n
Carter Hart made 25 saves for the Golden Knights. Brett Howden\u2019s four-game goal streak ended, as did Ivan Barbarshev\u2019s seven-game point streak.<\/p>\n
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Bowen Byram and Ryan McLeod scored on consecutive power-play opportunities in reviving Buffalo\u2019s anemic special-teams unit, and the Sabres defeated Montreal in Game 1 of their second-round playoff series.<\/p>\n
Josh Doan and Jordan Greenway also scored for Buffalo making its first second-round appearance since 2007, and first overall in 15 years. Alex Lyon stopped 26 shots and improved to 4-1 since taking over the starting duties in Game 3 of Buffalo\u2019s opening-round opponent Boston.<\/p>\n
Nick Suzuki and Kirby Dach scored for Montreal, which appeared slow to find its legs three days after defeating Tampa Bay in Game 7 of its first-round series. Jakub Dobes finished with 12 saves, and allowed four goals after allowing a combined two in splitting Games 6 and 7 against the Lightning.<\/p>\n
Montreal has yet to win consecutive playoff games this postseason, and was coming off a series in which all seven games were decided by one goal, including four in overtime.<\/p>\n
Buffalo hosts Game 2 on Friday night, before the series shifts to Montreal on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Beckett Sennecke, Leo Carlsson and Jansen Harkins scored, Lukas Dostal came 5.6 seconds from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[66121,163,165,164,62454,29687,65547,66514,128118,94384,16587,104796,67387,28747,1716,5498,29267,128124,101274,5341,5337,128125],"class_list":["post-303828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-alex-lyon","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-bowen-byram","tag-brett-howden","tag-buffalo","tag-carter-hart","tag-ivan-barbarshev","tag-jakub-dobes","tag-jansen-harkins","tag-jordan-greenway","tag-josh-doan","tag-kirby-dach","tag-leo-carlsson","tag-lukas-dostal","tag-mark-stone","tag-nhl-playoff-capsules","tag-nick-suzuki","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-ryan-mcleod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303828","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=303828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}