{"id":663538,"date":"2026-05-25T05:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/663538\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T05:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:20:11","slug":"stone-returns-scores-for-golden-knights-in-game-3-win-in-western-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/663538\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone returns, scores for Golden Knights in Game 3 win in Western Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stone, who had missed the previous\u00a0five games with a lower-body injury, began Vegas&#8217; comeback\u00a0just 19 seconds into the second period on Sunday, scoring a power-play goal to cut the deficit to 3-1. He then had the primary assist on Tomas Hertl&#8217;s goal at 8:21 of the third period that gave the Golden Knights a 4-3 lead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s huge,\u201d Golden Knights\u00a0defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/noah-hanifin-8478396\" title=\"Noah Hanifin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Hanifin<\/a> said before the game when asked about Stone\u2019s addition to the lineup. \u201cObviously, his talent speaks for itself, but just his character and leadership, just to have him back in the room and get his voice back, it\u2019s going to be huge for our team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnytime he comes back it\u2019s like he didn\u2019t miss a beat, so we\u2019re very excited to have him back in the lineup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Knights returned home after winning each of the first two games, 4-2 and 3-1, at Ball Arena in Denver, where the Avalanche were previously 5-0 in the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Teams that take a 3-0 lead in a best-of-7 semifinal hold an all-time series record of 49-0, including 13-0 when starting on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stone, who had missed the previous\u00a0five games with a lower-body injury, began Vegas&#8217; comeback\u00a0just 19 seconds into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-663538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}