{"id":438799,"date":"2026-01-31T23:14:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/438799\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T23:14:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:14:50","slug":"jake-evans-scores-in-overtime-to-lift-canadiens-past-golden-knights-3-2-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/438799\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Evans scores in overtime to lift Canadiens past Golden Knights 3-2"},"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\" 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","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":438800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[3504,3505,3506,149,5317,5,3507,3508,3509,3510,3511,285,4,3512,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-438799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-13-action-news","9":"tag-channel-13","10":"tag-go-knights-go","11":"tag-golden-knights","12":"tag-goldenknights","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-hockey-in-las-vegas","15":"tag-hockey-in-vegas","16":"tag-ktnv-tv-channel-13","17":"tag-las-vegas-hockey","18":"tag-las-vegas-sports","19":"tag-national-hockey-league","20":"tag-nhl","21":"tag-nhl-in-las-vegas","22":"tag-vegas","23":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","24":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115992259794840689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438799","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=438799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}