Golden Knights players hit milestones in doubling up Blues
Mark Stone tied the team record with a goal in his seventh consecutive 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 remaining 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 NHL season
Jack Eichel and Shea Theodore also scored goals and Akira Schmid made 17 saves for Vegas, which extended its win streak to three games.
Robert Thomas had a goal and an assist and Jake Neighbours also scored for St. Louis, which suffered its third straight loss. Jordan Binnington stopped 21 of 24 shots.
The Blues, playing the second game of a back-to-back that began with a 4-2 loss at Utah on Friday, needed just 53 seconds to take a 1-0 lead. Philip Broberg fired the puck along the boards where it took a surprising carom off an end board and went straight out to Thomas by the left post, where he tapped it into an open net.
Vegas tied it at the 7:34 mark when Marner, playing in his 700th career game, tucked in 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 crossing pass for Reilly Smith on the backdoor through Binnington's pads.
Theodore, back after missing 11 games with an upper-body injury, made it 3-1 near the end of the period when he roofed a wrist shot from near the right faceoff dot.
The Blues cut the lead to 3-2 at the 3:33 mark of the third period on a power-play goal by Neighbours, who fired a wrist shot from the high slot past Schmid's glove side. The goal snapped a 0-for-18 drought on the power play for St. Louis.
Broberg, who earlier Saturday signed a six-year, $48 million contract extension that runs through the 2031-32 season, left after hitting his head on the ice when Stone checked him along the boards on his second shift and didn't return because of upper-body injury.