{"id":216488,"date":"2026-03-23T12:14:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/216488\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:14:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:14:43","slug":"smiths-late-goal-lifts-vegas-past-dallas-3-2-and-denies-stars-bid-to-clinch-a-playoff-berth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/216488\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith&#8217;s late goal lifts Vegas past Dallas 3-2 and denies Stars&#8217; bid to clinch a playoff berth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2035892599853043990\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Reilly Smith scored the tiebreaking goal<\/a> with 3:38 left in the third period and the Vegas Golden Knights beat Dallas 3-2 on Sunday night, denying the Stars&#8217; 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>Dallas&#8217; Wyatt Johnston 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 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Reilly Smith scored the tiebreaking goal with 3:38 left in the third period and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[84489,84491,84487,81550,102,104,103,84486,84483,84490,84485,9933,84484,84488,23681,202,196,84493,42094,84494,942,84492,44318,3632],"class_list":["post-216488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-adin-hill","tag-brayden-mcnabb","tag-brett-howden","tag-casey-desmith","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dino-ciccarelli","tag-golden-knights-stars-score","tag-ivan-barbashev","tag-justin-hryckowian","tag-las-vegas","tag-mitch-marner","tag-nils-lundkvist","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32550-ap-online-hockey-game-stories","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40798-ap-nevada-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-reilly-smith","tag-sam-steel","tag-wyatt-johnston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216488","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=216488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}