Vegas 4, Nashville 3
When: 8:00 PM ET, Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Where: Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, Tennessee
Referees:
Dean Morton, Chris Schlenker
Linesmen:
Scott Driscoll, Trent Knorr
Attendance:
17326
By Field Level Media
Paul Stastny scored at 1:52 of overtime after teammate Max Pacioretty had tied the game with three-tenths of a second left in regulation as the visiting Vegas Golden Knights rallied for a 4-3 victory over the Nashville Predators on Wednesday night.
Stastny and defenseman Nate Schmidt took off on a two-on-none break after Nashville turned the puck over in its own zone. Schmidt came down the left wing and then slid a pass over to Stastny at the bottom of the right circle, where he fired a shot between the pads of goaltender Juuse Saros.
Vegas got into overtime by pulling goaltender Malcolm Subban for an extra attacker with 1:05 remaining, and Pacioretty tied it with a shot from the bottom of the right circle off a feed from Mark Stone that just beat the buzzer.
Pacioretty, Stone and Reilly Smith each had a goal and an assist, and Schmidt added two assists for Vegas, which snapped a three-game losing streak as well as a five-game road losing streak.
With Marc-Andre Fleury leaving the team to tend to a family illness in Montreal, Subban made his second consecutive start and finished with 31 saves to pick up his first win in seven games (1-4-2) this season.
Matt Duchene and Mikael Granlund each had a goal and an assist, Ryan Ellis scored a goal, and Roman Josi had two assists for Nashville. Saros finished with 26 saves.
Stone gave Vegas its first lead in four games at the 7:33 mark of the first period when he scored his 11th goal of the season when Pacioretty kicked a bouncing puck to him by the left corner of the net, where a fired a shot past the glove of Saros.
Smith made it 2-0 with his first goal in nine games, taking a stretch pass from Schmidt near the blue line and then breaking in and flipping a backhand past Saros' glove side for his 11th goal of the season.
Granlund cut it to 2-1 just 39 seconds later, tapping in a feed from Josi in front of crease for his fourth goal of the season. Ellis then tied it 4 1/2 minutes later when he took a Josi pass in front of the net, deked Subban and put in a backhand shot into the left side of the goal for his fourth goal of the season.
Duchene gave the Predators a 3-2 lead early in the third period when he one-timed a Granlund pass from the middle of the right circle for his seventh goal of the season.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
| Vegas |
|
Nashville |
|
Max Pacioretty 2 |
Points |
Matt Duchene 2 |
|
Max Pacioretty 1 |
Goals |
Matt Duchene 1 |
|
Nate Schmidt 2 |
Assists |
Roman Josi 2 |
|
N/A |
Power Play Goals |
N/A |
|
N/A |
Short Handed Goals |
N/A |
|
Malcolm Subban .912 |
Save Percentage |
Juuse Saros .867 |
|
Malcolm Subban 31 |
Saves |
Juuse Saros 26 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Shots |
Goals |
Power Play |
Penalty Kill |
Penalty Mins |
Face Offs Won |
| Vegas
|
30 |
4 |
0-2 |
2-2 |
4 |
29 |
| Nashville
|
34 |
3 |
0-2 |
2-2 |
4 |
31 |
Upcoming Games
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Nashville will play their next game on the road against Carolina. The Predators have a W/L % of .500 after a win and .417 after a loss.
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Vegas will play their next game at home against Arizona. The Golden Knights have a W/L % of .417 after a win and .467 after a loss.
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