{"id":415068,"date":"2026-01-18T23:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/415068\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:58:20","slug":"golden-knights-rout-predators-7-2-for-their-7th-straight-victory-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/415068\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights rout Predators 7-2 for their 7th straight victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Alexander Holtz and Shea Theodore scored in a 1:05 span late in the second period and the Vegas Golden Knights had two more two-goal sprees to rout the Nashville Predators 7-1 on Saturday night for their seventh straight victory.<\/p>\n

Pavel Dorofeyev and captain Mark Stone added goals in a three-minute span in the third, with Dorofeyev scoring his 20th of the season and Stone getting his 10th goal in 11 games and 18th of the season. Stone has a career-best 11-game points streak.<\/p>\n

Cole Reinhardt and Mitch Marner scored two more goals in quick succession, striking in a 50-second span, and Keegan Kolesar capped the five-goal third. Akira Schmid made 26 saves.<\/p>\n

Luke Evangelista and Filip Forsberg scored for Nashville, and Justus Annunen stopped 29 shots. The Predators had won three straight, the last a 7-3 victory at Colorado on Friday night<\/p>\n

Holtz tied it at 1<\/a> with 2:43 left in the second period. Off Theodore\u2019s feed, Holtz one-timed a slap shot that deflected off Nashville\u2019s Fedor Svechkov. Theodore \u2014 playing his 600th NHL game \u2014 scored on Vegas\u2019 next shot<\/a>, firing a snapper through a crowd with 1:38 to go.<\/p>\n

Dorofeyev scored on a break<\/a> off a pass from Mitch Marner at 5:52. Stone scored on another break<\/a> at 8:52, with Eichel setting it up. Reinhardt struck with 7:34 to go, Marner with 6:44 left, and Kolesar with 4:48 remaining.<\/p>\n

Forsberg scored on a power play for Nashville in the final minute. Evangelista opened the scoring with 5:50 left in the first period.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Marchessault, the Conn Smythe Trophy winner as the playoff MVP in Vegas\u2019 2023 championship, was activated by Nashville on Saturday after missing 14 games because of a lower-body injury. He\u2019s in his second season with the Predators after seven with Vegas.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Predators: Host Buffalo on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Golden Knights: Host Philadelphia on Monday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Alexander Holtz and Shea Theodore scored in a 1:05 span late in the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[2831,3705,1082,7925,3577,5,3400,4156,3710,9245,1040,533,2409,231,5281,13257,4,292,1274,2880,2410,9,43,2415,4894,39],"class_list":["post-415068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nashville-predators","tag-akira-schmid","tag-alexander-holtz","tag-cole-reinhardt","tag-fedor-svechkov","tag-filip-forsberg","tag-hockey","tag-jonathan-audy-marchessault","tag-justus-annunen","tag-keegan-kolesar","tag-luke-evangelista","tag-mark-stone","tag-mitch-marner","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-predators","tag-nashvillepredators","tag-nevada","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-nv-state-wire","tag-pavel-dorofeyev","tag-predators","tag-shea-theodore","tag-sports","tag-tennessee","tag-tn-state-wire","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115918818758427253","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415068","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=415068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}