Pavelski lifts Stars over Golden Knights in OT to keep away from sweep

Joe Pavelski scored on an influence play at 3:18 of time beyond regulation and the Dallas Stars prevented a sweep within the Western Convention closing with a 3-2 victory over the visiting Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday evening.

Jason Robertson scored twice for his first profession multi-goal playoff recreation for Dallas, which performed with out suspended captain Jamie Benn. Jake Oettinger had 37 saves, two nights after he was pulled 7:10 into Sport 3 after permitting three targets on 5 pictures.

William Karlsson and Jonathan Marchessault scored for Vegas. Adin Hill had his five-game successful streak snapped. He made 39 pictures, together with a game-saver together with his prolonged left leg with out about two minutes left in regulation on rookie Fredrik Olofsson’s swiping attempt in his first profession playoff recreation.

Karlsson and Marchessault are amongst six of the unique Vegas gamers nonetheless on the crew from the inaugural 2017-18 season that ended with the Knights taking part in for the Stanley Cup, although they misplaced in 5 video games to the Washington Capitals after successful the primary recreation.

Vegas missed an opportunity to finish a sweep, an evening after the Florida Panthers completed off a sweep of the Carolina Hurricanes within the Japanese Convention closing.

Vegas took a 2-1 lead halfway by way of the second interval when Marchessault, after whacking his stick on the again of Ryan Suter in entrance of the web, scored on a move between the Stars defenseman’s legs from Brayden McNabb, one other authentic Golden Knight.

Robertson’s tying aim late in that interval got here on a ricochet off the again board simply seconds after he had one other shot hit the submit. That was the fourth aim of this sequence, and sixth within the playoffs, after this common season changing into the primary Dallas participant with a 100-point season.

With former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and wrestling nice Ric Aptitude each within the constructing carrying Stars jerseys Dallas was prevented being swept within the playoffs for the primary time since 2001 towards St. Louis within the second spherical. This was the Stars’ twenty first playoff sequence since then.

Karlsson pushed the puck up and skated to the entrance of the web after passing to Nicolas Roy, whose move by way of site visitors went off a Dallas stick earlier than Reilly Smith — additionally with Vegas for the reason that starting — bought it simply inside the appropriate circle and took a shot. Karlsson’s deflection previous Oettinger solely 4:17 into the sport was his eighth aim this postseason.

Dallas bought even at 1-1 on an influence play with 4:18 left within the first interval after some nifty stickwork by Robertson, who deflected Miro Heiskanen’s shot from simply contained in the blue line up into the air. As Hill was attempting to safe the puck into his glove, Robertson knocked it free after which reached round and swiped the puck into the web together with his stick parallel to the ice.

Hill, coming off his first profession playoff shutout, had stopped 60 pictures in a row over a span that included time beyond regulation in Sport 2 after stopping all 10 pictures he confronted within the third interval.