{"id":432066,"date":"2026-01-28T07:21:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/432066\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T07:21:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:21:27","slug":"jake-evans-scores-in-ot-to-lift-canadiens-past-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/432066\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Evans scores in OT to lift Canadiens past Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL (AP) \u2014 Jake Evans scored at 3:58 of overtime, leading the Montreal Canadiens to a 3-2 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Caufield, with his 30th goal of the season, and Phillip Danault also scored for Montreal, as the Habs halted a two-game losing skid.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Matheson ran his point streak to a season-long five games with an assist on Caufield\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n<p>Jakub Dobes made 32 saves in his first career start against Vegas. The 24-year-old boasts a 6-0-1 record over his past seven games, with his last regulation loss coming against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Dec. 9.<\/p>\n<p>Pavel Dorofeyev scored both goals for the Golden Knights, who lost their third straight game against Montreal, dating back to last season.<\/p>\n<p>Akira Schmid stopped 23 shots in the losing effort. The Swiss netminder lost for the second time in as many starts against Montreal this season.<\/p>\n<p>Caufield, who had a hat trick in his team\u2019s <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bruins-canadiens-score-7264f24c62182a230e3aa23058d1760a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4-3 loss to the Boston Bruins<\/a> on Saturday, has scored in six straight games, the longest streak of his career. Caufield has nine goals over that six-game stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Hanifin skated in his 800th career NHL game for the Golden Knights. The 29-year-old Boston native became the first player of the 2015 draft class to reach the milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Golden Knights: Host the Dallas Stars on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Canadiens: Host the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL (AP) \u2014 Jake Evans scored at 3:58 of overtime, leading the Montreal Canadiens to a 3-2 victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[2831,971,149,5317,5,639,909,1326,1941,21,13257,4,292,2833,1274,2880,1808,52363,43,74,39,5316],"class_list":["post-432066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vegas-golden-knights","tag-akira-schmid","tag-cole-caufield","tag-golden-knights","tag-goldenknights","tag-hockey","tag-jake-evans","tag-jakub-dobes","tag-las-vegas","tag-michael-matheson","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nevada","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-noah-hanifin","tag-nv-state-wire","tag-pavel-dorofeyev","tag-phillip-danault","tag-send-to-apple-news","tag-sports","tag-vegas","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-vegasgoldenknights"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115971521965009993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432066","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=432066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}