Pavelski lifts Stars over Golden Knights in OT to avoid sweep

Joe Pavelski scored in a power match at 3:18 of extra time and the Dallas Stars avoided a comeback in the Western Conference final with a 3-2 win over the Vegas Golden Knights on the night. Thursday.

Jason Robertson scored twice in the first multi-goal knockout of his career for Dallas, a game without captain Jamie Benn being suspended. Jake Oettinger made 37 saves, two nights after he was dragged into 7:10 in Game 3 after conceding three goals from five shots.

William Karlsson and Jonathan Marchessault scored for Vegas. Adin Hill has had a 5-match winning streak. He made 39 shots, including a left-footed save that lasted less than two minutes in allotted time as rookie Fredrik Olofsson tried to shoot in the first knockout of his career. .

Karlsson and Marchessault are among the six original Vegas players still on the team from the inaugural 2017-18 season that ended with the Knights contesting the Stanley Cup, even though they lost five games to the Washington Capitals after winning the game. Firstly.

Vegas missed the chance to complete a sweep, one night after the Florida Panthers finished their sweep of Hurricane Carolina in the Eastern Conference finals.

Vegas took a 2-1 lead midway through the second half when Marchessault, after hitting Ryan Suter in the back in front of the net, scored thanks to a Stars defender’s mid-foot pass from Brayden McNabb, another original Golden Knight.

Robertson’s winner at the end of that period came from a shot that bounced off the post just seconds after he had another shot on the post. It was the fourth goal in this series and sixth in the knockout stages, after this regular season, becoming the first Dallas player to have 100 points of the season.

With former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and boxer great Ric Flair both in the All-Stars building, Dallas avoided being eliminated in the knockout stages for the first time since 2001 against St. Louis in the second round. This is the Stars’ 21st playoff series since then.

Karlsson pushed the ball up and slid forward into the net after passing it to Nicolas Roy, whose pass passed a Dallas bat before Reilly Smith – also playing with Vegas from the start – got right into the side. in the right circle and hit . Karlsson’s save over Oettinger just 4:17 in the game was his eighth goal this season.

Dallas even took a 1-1 lead through power play with the score remaining 4:18 in the first half after some clever batting by Robertson, who deflected Miro Heiskanen’s shot from the right. inside the horizontal border to the sky. As Hill was trying to slip the ball into his glove, Robertson knocked it off then leaned around and swatted the ball into the net with his bat parallel to the ice.

Hill, after the first playoff of his career, saved 60 consecutive shots in a period including injury time in Game 2 after parrying all 10 shots he had to. face off in the third inning.