{"id":403994,"date":"2026-01-12T20:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/403994\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T20:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:59:13","slug":"tomas-hertls-career-game-propels-him-to-top-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/403994\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomas Hertl\u2019s career game propels him to top honor"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the key sources for the Vegas Golden Knights turning things around and firing off four straight victories has been recognized by the NHL.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the NHL announced that Golden Knights forward Tomas Hertl was named the First Star of the week ending Jan. 11.<\/p>\n

Hertl, who was recently named to represent Czechia for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, lead the NHL with nine points in four games.<\/p>\n

The recent string of impressive performances started with the 4-3 overtime win<\/a> over the Winnipeg Jets on Jan. 6, when Hertl capped off the comeback effort with the game-winning goal in overtime.<\/p>\n

Despite being held off the scoresheet against the St. Louis Blues, Hertl would end the week with a career-best performance<\/a> against the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n

Against his former team, Hertl was an offensive force, recording a career-high five points against the Sharks. The performance also tied a Golden Knights record for the most points scored in a single game. Hertl would notch two goals and three assists in what was ultimately a blowout win for the Golden Knights.<\/p>\n

So far this season, Hertl leads the Golden Knights with 18 goals, as well as currently placing fourth on the team with 21 assists and 39 points in 44 games played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the key sources for the Vegas Golden Knights turning things around and firing off four straight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[149,5317,5,4,1261,4972,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-403994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-golden-knights","9":"tag-goldenknights","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-tomas-hertl","13":"tag-tst-las-vegas","14":"tag-vegas","15":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","16":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115884142387061974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}