{"id":310768,"date":"2026-05-11T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310768\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:00:09","slug":"vegas-golden-knights-struggle-on-penalty-kill-in-game-4-loss-to-anaheim-ducks-golden-knights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310768\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Golden Knights struggle on penalty kill in Game 4 loss to Anaheim Ducks | Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 It\u2019s not the first time the Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> have put themselves behind the 8-ball when it comes to penalties.<\/p>\n

It was just the first time in the playoffs that it caught up to them. Two power-play goals from the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> made Game 4 an uphill climb for the Knights in a 4-3 loss at Honda Center.<\/p>\n

The PK, which gave up one goal in 27 chances, saw two go by goaltender Carter Hart to give the Ducks life in this series.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been pretty damn good for quite a while here,\u201d Colton Sissons said. \u201cSometimes, bounces will go that way. It shouldn\u2019t shake our confidence as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t much that could have been done on some of the penalties. Dylan Coghlan\u2019s interference call was a call that could\u2019ve gone either way \u2014 more than likely a no-call, than a whistle.<\/p>\n

That penalty led to Beckett Sennecke\u2019s power-play goal that opened the scoring.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not going to be perfect every night,\u201d defenseman Brayden McNabb said. \u201cThey shot the puck a little more, and they were getting bounces. It is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

McNabb\u2019s cross-check at 16:25 didn\u2019t lead to a goal, but it came one minute after Mikael Granlund gave the Ducks a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n

Another goal would\u2019ve put the Knights in deeper trouble.<\/p>\n

Cole Smith\u2019s slashing call with 3:17 left in the second comes off an extended shift, leading to the Knights\u2019 fourth line standing no chance against Anaheim\u2019s top line.<\/p>\n

That led to Alex Killorn\u2019s go-ahead goal 1 minute, 15 seconds later, which banked off Hart to put the Knights behind going into the third period.<\/p>\n

The end result was Hart giving up four goals on 23 shots and making this series a best-of-three with home-ice advantage back in the Knights\u2019 favor.<\/p>\n

It also wound up being Hart\u2019s worst performance of the series when looking at the goals that were given up.<\/p>\n

Sennecke\u2019s goal was a one-timer from the top of the circle that beat Hart\u2019s five-hole. Granlund\u2019s goal was a knuckler off the stick that took a couple of hops and rolled by him.<\/p>\n

Killorn\u2019s initial shot appeared to be saved, but it bounced off Hart to give Anaheim the lead.<\/p>\n

Ian Cole\u2019s goal that gave the Ducks a two-goal cushion in the third was a point shot that beat Hart with no traffic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not going to overthink it,\u201d McNabb said. \u201cWe\u2019ll be ready for the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Knights were outshot 23-21, marking the third time in the series they\u2019ve lost the shots-on-goal battle.<\/p>\n

They converted on their chances in Game 3. That wasn\u2019t the case Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did have some good looks,\u201d Sissons said. \u201cWe always want more. I don\u2019t think we had a ton tonight, but we had enough really good looks to put up some goals and just didn\u2019t go.\u201d<\/p>\n

The series now heads back to Las Vegas. One where it feels like the Ducks are still in control after they\u2019ve dictated a majority of the play for three games.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why they play the games. The Knights have no choice but to turn the page quickly, because they\u2019ll be on the ice Tuesday with another episode of the biggest game of their season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think just the stakes get higher and people raise their level in their game,\u201d Sissons said. \u201cGuys have a lot of experience in this locker room, going deep into a series, and we\u2019ll lean on that again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Contact Danny Webster at dwebster@reviewjournal.com.<\/a> Follow @DannyWebster21<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 It\u2019s not the first time the Vegas Golden Knights have put themselves behind the 8-ball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-310768","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\/310768","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=310768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}