{"id":216141,"date":"2026-03-23T04:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/216141\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T04:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:05:11","slug":"golden-knights-edge-dallas-3-2-on-late-goal-deny-stars-bid-to-clinch-a-playoff-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/216141\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights edge Dallas 3-2 on late goal, deny Stars&#8217; bid to clinch a playoff berth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reilly Smith scored the tiebreaking goal with 3:38 left in the third period and the Vegas Golden Knights beat Dallas 3-2 on Sunday night, denying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/sports\/stars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Stars<\/a>&#8216; bid to clinch a playoff berth.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas&#8217; Mitch Marner skated into the high slot and his shot ricocheted off two Dallas players and landed near Smith, who scored from close range past a defenseless Casey DeSmith. The deciding goal came after the teams played more than seven minutes without a whistle.<\/p>\n<p>Brayden McNabb and Ivan Barbashev also scored for Vegas, which snapped a three-game skid and won for just the third time in nine games. Adin Hill made 13 saves for the Golden Knights, who outshot Dallas 33-15.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/wyatt-johnston-scores-twice-as-dallas-stars-top-seattle-kraken-4-1-for-seventh-straight-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Dallas&#8217; Wyatt Johnston <\/a>set a franchise single-season record with his NHL-leading 23rd power-play goal. Johnston held the mark for the most in a season since the Stars moved to Dallas in 1993-94. His latest moved him past Dino Ciccarelli (1986-87) for the most for the Minnesota-Dallas franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Hryckowian also scored for Dallas (43-16-11), which is five points behind Western Division-leading Colorado (102). The Avalanche lead the NHL and Western Conference with a record of 46-13-10. DeSmith stopped 30 shots as the Stars lost for the third time in four games. Sam Steel had two assists.<\/p>\n<p>McNabb opened the scoring at the 4:01 mark of the first period, carrying the puck out of his own zone, splitting two defenders and beating DeSmith low to the glove side. <\/p>\n<p>Johnston scored his 38th of the season on a power play at 10:55 of the second, and Hryckowian put the Stars ahead with his 11th of the season at 16:48.<\/p>\n<p>Barbashev tied the game at 2, scoring on a power play at 16:48 of the second after Nils Lundkvist was sent off for slashing. Barbashev took a feed from Brett Howden and scored from a tough angle near the side of the net.<\/p>\n<p>Golden Knights: At the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Stars: Host the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reilly Smith scored the tiebreaking goal with 3:38 left in the third period and the Vegas Golden Knights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,1115,9933,2484,154,22746,84379],"class_list":["post-216141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-stars","tag-las-vegas","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-stanley-cup","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}