LAS VEGAS — The Vegas Golden Knights (13-5-2) beat the Utah Mammoth (10-8-1) 5-3 on Wednesday night in the biggest game of the night on TNT, and the difference was the power play — Vegas went 2-for-4, Utah 0-for-1.
Victor Olofsson scored the power-play goal to make it 2-1, then set up both of Ivan Barbashev’s goals. Barbashev scored twice in the second period, and Olofsson finished with three points — a goal and two assists.
Jack Eichel opened the scoring with his ninth goal of the season on the power play at 2:15 of the first, assisted by Mitch Marner and Mark Stone, and Lawson Crouse tied it 1-1 at 8:07. Olofsson’s power-play goal at 3:07 of the second made it 2-1, Barbashev scored at 4:51 and again at 8:16 to make it 4-1, and Jack McBain’s goal at 16:39 cut it to 4-2 and kept Utah in the game.
Dmitri Simashev pulled Utah within one at 9:07 of the third, but Brett Howden answered at 10:19 to make it 5-3.
McBain led Utah with a goal and two assists, and Clayton Keller picked up his 20th assist of the season on Simashev’s goal. Marner had three assists for Vegas.
Carter Hart made 14 saves on 17 shots for Vegas. Sebastian Cossa made 23 saves on 28 shots for Utah. Vegas outshot Utah 28-17, and Utah won 55 percent of the faceoffs.
Utah never led. Crouse’s goal at 8:07 of the first tied it 1-1, and that was the only time Utah drew level — Vegas scored three in the second, and the closest Utah got after that was Simashev’s goal at 9:07 of the third, which made it 4-3 before Howden answered.
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