{"id":304014,"date":"2026-05-07T09:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/304014\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T09:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:22:12","slug":"golden-knights-drop-fourth-straight-game-2-since-last-season-head-to-anaheim-tied-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/304014\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights Drop Fourth Straight Game 2 Since Last Season, Head To Anaheim Tied 1-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the second straight playoff series, the Golden Knights<\/a> are headed out of town for Games 3 and 4 tied 1-1, and home ice squandered after losing Game 2.<\/p>\n

The Anaheim Ducks<\/a> scored three unanswered goals and cruised to a 3-1 win Wednesday night to knot the second-round series at one game apiece.<\/p>\n

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Beckett Sennecke<\/a>, Leo Carlsson<\/a> and Jansen Harkins<\/a> scored for the Ducks, while Lukas Dostal<\/a> made 21 saves.<\/p>\n

Vegas captain Mark Stone<\/a> saved the Knights from enduring their third-ever home shutout loss in the playoffs when he scored with six seconds left in the game. Goalie Carter Hart<\/a> made 25 saves.<\/p>\n

At the midway point of the first period, Anaheim’s Tim Washe<\/a> was called for goaltender interference, giving the Golden Knights their first power-play opportunity. Vegas<\/a> had already staved off Anaheim’s first two power-play chances and had the chance to seize momentum with the third-best home power play of the playoffs. Instead, the Knights didn’t even get a shot on goal.<\/p>\n

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4 … Wednesday marked the fourth-straight Game 2 playoff loss at home for the Knights. Last year they fell to the Minnesota Wild<\/a> in the opening round, as the two split the first two games. The Knights went on to win the series, 4-2. In the second round, the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> won both Games 1 and 2, but then won Game 3 in Canada to cut the series lead in half. In this year’s opening round, the Knights lost Games 2 and 3 to the Utah Mammoth<\/a>, before winning Games 4-6 to advance. The Golden Knights have now lost Game 2 seven times, and are 3-3 after doing so the first six times.<\/p>\n

Though he didn’t score or have anything to do with Stone’s goal, give Ivan Barbashev<\/a> the nod for this space. Barbashev, who scored the game-winning goal in Game 1 and failed to register a point for the first time this postseason, still led the team with five shots on goal. He had three other shots blocked and led the team with eight hits.<\/p>\n

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The teams continue their series in Anaheim for Game 3 on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Anaheim Ducks defenseman Pavel Mintyukov<\/a> (98) blocks a shot by Vegas Golden Knights left wing Ivan Barbashev (49) during the third period of game two of the second round of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs at T-Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second straight playoff series, the Golden Knights are headed out of town for Games 3 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,1720,66514,2070,58068,29847,16587,1716,123444,5498,29267,4227,18469,66793,2721,8985,39578],"class_list":["post-304014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-beckett-sennecke","tag-carter-hart","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-golden-knights","tag-ivan-barbashev","tag-jansen-harkins","tag-leo-carlsson","tag-losing-game","tag-lukas-dostal","tag-mark-stone","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-pavel-mintyukov","tag-the-knights","tag-tim-washe","tag-utah-mammoth","tag-vegas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304014","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=304014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}