Ty Dellandrea scored twice in 87 seconds midway through the third quarter, dallas star Avoided elimination with 4-2 win for second straight game Vegas Golden Knights Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals Saturday night in Las Vegas
It was the first multi-goal goal of Delandria’s career. Jake Oettinger went 27 for 29 from the field, goals from Jason Robertson and Luke Glendening and Thomas Harley added two assists for Dallas, which still trails 3-2 in the best-of-seven series. Game 6 is Monday night in Dallas.
Chandler Stephenson and Ivan Barbashev scored for Vegas and Jonathan Marchessault added an assist. Adin Hill made 30 saves.
With the game tied at 2-2 entering the third quarter, Dellandrea gave Dallas its first lead at 10:35 with a wrist shot from the middle of the right circle that blocked defenseman Alex Pietrangelo’s stick and caught Hill’s glove underneath. .
Dellandrea then made it 4-2 with 7:58 left when he hit a rebound off Max Domi from the post.
Vegas nearly cut the deficit in half when Alec Martinez hit a field goal post with just over five minutes left in the game. Golden Knights Pulled Hill to play at 3 minutes and 17 seconds.Vegas attempted seven shots with extra attackers but six were blocked, Oettinger easily saved another, Jake Eichel’s wrist shot
Las Vegas was up 1-0 at 13:36 of the first quarter when Barbashev picked up a loose puck off the right backboard and sprinted toward the net. Oettinger scored his sixth goal of the playoffs with a shot from near the right pad.
But Dallas needed just 1:48 to tie the game, Glendenning’s second goal of the postseason to tie it, with a Halley shot deflected off Hill’s right pad.
this Golden Knights Retaking the lead 2-1 early in the second period, Stephenson was left alone on the left circle during the change of lanes, received a pass from Shai Theodore and flicked a wrist shot into the far corner that was his season. Eighth goal of the playoffs
this Star It took more than two minutes to tie the game again when Robertson sliced his own shot off the backboard over Hill’s left shoulder from the gap at the bottom of the left circle, his fifth goal of the series and first of the playoffs. seven goals
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