{"id":690804,"date":"2026-06-08T01:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/690804\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T01:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:50:15","slug":"howden-playoff-goal-surge-with-golden-knights-fun-to-watch-for-pisani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/690804\/","title":{"rendered":"Howden playoff goal surge with Golden Knights \u2018fun to watch\u2019 for Pisani"},"content":{"rendered":"

Howden has been playing left wing predominantly on a line with Marner and center William Karlsson<\/a>\u00a0in the playoffs. Marner had a hat trick in Game 3 and has seven points (three goals, four assists) in the Cup Final. Howden had an assist on Shea Theodore<\/a>\u2019s goal at 5:38 of the second overtime Saturday.<\/p>\n

Pisani found his own chemistry with linemates Raffi Torres<\/a> and Michael Peca<\/a> 20 years ago in Edmonton\u2019s run to the Cup Final, which ended with a 3-1 loss at Carolina in Game 7. He had 18 points (14 goals, four assists) in 24 playoff games after having 37 points (18 goals, 19 assists) during the regular season for the Oilers, who were the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

Edmonton went on to upset the Detroit Red Wings, San Jose Sharks and Anaheim Ducks before falling one victory short of winning the Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think for us,\u00a0Raffi was playing unreal and Peca stepped his game up, and collectively the three of us just took our game to another level,\u201d Pisani said. \u201cI was in good spots where they would get me the puck and it was like anything, once you get on a little bit of a roll, you\u2019re shooting things and you\u2019re hitting your mark and they\u2019re going in. Then once you catch fire, you just want to make sure you\u2019re dialed in and focused and wanting to do it continuously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Much like\u00a0Howden with the Golden Knights, the timing of Pisani\u2019s goals in 2006 played a big role in the Oilers\u2019 run.<\/p>\n

Howden has three short-handed goals and three game-winners in the playoffs; Pisani had five game-winning goals, including one short-handed in overtime of Game 5 for a 4-3 win against the Hurricanes to extend the series. It was the first short-handed overtime goal in Cup Final history.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat one I\u2019ll never forget for sure,\u201d Pisani said. \u201cI had no idea until days after that it was the first short-handed, game-winning overtime goal in Stanley Cup history, so that was pretty cool.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t see it until after when you watch the replay, but just the whole bench\u2019s reaction, that was, to me, was one of the coolest things to watch, just to see everybody going crazy and jumping up and down. As you watch it and see it now, it was really cool for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Howden\u2019s had his own overtime heroics, scoring the winner in a 5-4 victory against the Utah Mammoth in Game 5 of the first round. Vegas went on to win in six.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Howden has been playing left wing predominantly on a line with Marner and center William Karlsson\u00a0in the playoffs.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-690804","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\/690804","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=690804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}