Overview
- Vegas, which trailed 2-1 after two periods Sunday, scored three times in the third to win 4-2 and take a 1-0 series lead, after Utah had gone ahead on Logan Cooley’s first playoff goal in franchise history.
- Captain Mark Stone tied the game at 5:33 of the third on a power play to set the Golden Knights’ postseason goals mark at 37.
- Nic Dowd redirected Noah Hanifin’s point shot at 7:20 of the third for the go-ahead goal that stood up as the winner.
- Goaltender Carter Hart stopped 32 shots and kept Utah off the board in the final period with several key saves.
- The opener was punishing, with Vegas credited with 52 hits to Utah’s 29 and multiple scrums, and the NHL fined Utah defenseman Sean Durzi $5,000 for head-butting a Golden Knights player.