Mark Stone tied the team record with a goal in his seventh straight game and Mitch Marner had a goal and an assist to lead the Vegas Golden Knights to a 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Saturday night in Las Vegas.
Stone scored an empty-netter with 2:24 left to tie the team mark set by Max Pacioretty in December 2021. The seven-game goal streak also tied Jason Robertson (Nov. 11-25) of the Dallas Stars for the longest this season in the NHL.
Jack Eichel and Shea Theodore also scored goals and Akira Schmid made 17 saves for Vegas, which extended its winning streak to three games.
Robert Thomas had a goal and an assist and Jake Neighbors also scored for St. Louis, which suffered its third straight loss. Jordan Binnington stopped 21 of 24 shots.
The Blues, playing the second straight game in a 4-2 loss to Utah on Friday, needed just 53 seconds to take a 1-0 lead. Philip Broberg tossed the puck along the boards where it took a surprising carom off one end board and headed straight to Thomas through the left post, where he knocked it into an open net.
Vegas tied it at 7:34 when Marner, playing in his 700th career game, scored a rebound of his own shot inside the right post.
The Golden Knights took a 2-1 lead early in the second period when Blues defenseman Colton Parayko deflected Eichel’s cross-ice pass to Reilly Smith out the back door, through Binnington’s pads.
Theodore, returning after missing 11 games with an upper-body injury, made it 3-1 late in the period when he drilled a wrist shot near the right faceoff dot.
The Blues cut the lead to 3-2 at 3:33 of the third period on a power-play goal from Neighbors, who fired a wrist shot from the high slot past Schmid’s glove side. The goal ended an 0-for-18 power play drought for St. Louis.
Broberg, who signed a six-year, $48 million contract extension earlier Saturday covering the 2031-32 season, left after hitting his head on the ice when Stone checked him along the boards in his second shift and did not return due to an upper-body injury.
–Field level media
