The Vegas Golden Knights (34-26-15) beat the Calgary Flames (31-36-8), 6-3, on Thursday night at T-Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n
HOW IT WENT DOWN Brett Howden<\/a> gave the Golden Knights their first lead on the night with his tenth goal of the season. Ivan Barbashev<\/a> carried the puck up ice for Theodore, who sent it to Howden in between the circles for a wrist shot with 7:41 remaining in the game. Barbashev extended Vegas\u2019 lead, 5-3, off a rebound from Marner\u2019s shot that came from behind the goal line. Marner then recorded his first hat-trick of the season with a wrap-around goal to seal the 6-3 win for the Golden Knights. Mark Stone<\/a> passed the puck to Marner, and he went around the net to beat Wolf short side. Carter Hart<\/a> picked up his sixth win of the season in his return from injury, turning aside 19 out of 22 shots in the victory.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS Brett Howden: Howden scored the game-winning goal to boost his point total to 19 this season (10G, 9A).<\/p>\n Pavel Dorofeyev: Dorofeyev netted an equalizer to boost his goals to 35 this season, to match his career high.<\/p>\n VGK STATS OF THE KNIGHT Shea Theodore recorded his 301st assist as a Golden Knight, becoming the first player to reach the mark in franchise history.<\/p>\n Pavel Dorofeyev scored his 19th power-play goal of the season, the second most in the NHL.<\/p>\n Dorofeyev became the third fastest Golden Knight to reach 90 career goals.<\/p>\n Mitch Marner notched 11 points (5G, 6A) against the Flames this season.<\/p>\n Marner recorded his third multi-goal game of the season.<\/p>\n Marner became the third fastest Golden Knight to record five or more points in a game.<\/p>\n Theodore (2A) and Ivan Barbashev (2A) each tallied multi-assist nights.<\/p>\n ATTENDANCE: 17,912<\/p>\n WHEN VGK WINS, YOU WIN! LOOKING AHEAD
Morgan Frost struck first with an unassisted goal at 7:41 in the opening period to give Calgary an early lead.\u00a0Mitch Marner<\/a> evened the score 1-1 at 1:47 into the middle period. Shea Theodore<\/a> fired a shot from the top of the circle, and Marner tipped the puck past Dustin Wolf for the score. Blake Coleman gave the Flames their second lead of the game at 4:38 in the second frame. Two minutes later, Marner responded with his second goal of the night to pull the game even, 2-2. Jack Eichel<\/a> passed the puck across the offensive zone to Rasmus Andersson<\/a>, who fed it to Marner in the slot for the one-timer. Coleman found the back of the net for the second time in the contest to give Calgary a 3-2 advantage with 7:49 remaining in the second period. Pavel Dorofeyev<\/a> made it 3-3 with his 19th power-play goal of the season. Marner sent the puck to Dorofeyev in the right circle, and he launched a one-timer into the back of the net with 3:39 left in the middle frame.<\/p>\n
Mitch Marner:\u00a0Marner recorded three goals and two helpers to skate away with his 25th multi-point game this year, the second most in a single season in VGK history.<\/p>\n
Mark Stone tallied his 700th career point with an assist on the Mitch Marner hat-trick goal.<\/p>\n
Fans can receive six free boneless or traditional wings at any Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant location throughout the greater Vegas metro area with a $10+ qualifying pre-tax purchase of food and non-alcoholic beverages, available for two days after any 2025-2026 VGK Win.<\/p>\n
The Golden Knights will begin a four-game road trip against the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place at 7 p.m PT. Watch the game on Scripps Sports (The Spot-Vegas 34 in Vegas), stream on KnightTime+, or listen live on FOX Sports Las Vegas 94.7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vegas Golden Knights (34-26-15) beat the Calgary Flames (31-36-8), 6-3, on Thursday night at T-Mobile Arena. HOW…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5129],"tags":[149,5317,5,4,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-538194","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-vegas","13":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","14":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116339927838185294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538194","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=538194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}