{"id":547398,"date":"2026-04-08T13:12:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547398\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:12:35","slug":"golden-knights-top-canucks-2-1-for-fourth-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547398\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights Top Canucks, 2-1, for Fourth Straight Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vegas Golden Knights (36-26-15) beat the Vancouver Canucks (22-47-8), 2-1, on Tuesday night at Rogers Arena to sweep the season series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>HOW IT WENT DOWN<br \/>Following a scoreless opening frame, Max Sasson broke the ice with 7:10 to play in the second period to give Vancouver a 1-0 lead. Less than three minutes later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/player\/brayden-mcnabb-8475188\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/player\/brayden-mcnabb-8475188\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McNabb<\/a>\u00a0netted the equalizer on a wrist shot from just outside the left faceoff circle. The Golden Knights took their first lead of the game with 7:47 left in regulation when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/player\/cole-smith-8482062\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Smith<\/a> scored the go-ahead goal from the high slot after a neutral zone takeaway and a feed from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/player\/nic-dowd-8475343\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nic Dowd<\/a>. Vegas\u2019 defense held strong for the remainder, killing a penalty in the final two minutes to secure the 2-1 win.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS<br \/>Brayden McNabb: McNabb&#8217;s second period goal was his fifth on the campaign, tying his career-high from last season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/player\/carter-hart-8479394\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carter Hart<\/a>: Hart earned his third straight win in net, turning away 10 of the 11 shots he faced including all four in the final frame.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Smith: Smith notched his first game-winning goal as a Golden Knight.<\/p>\n<p>VGK STATS OF THE KNIGHT<br \/>With the 2-1 win, Vegas is tied for the most points in the Pacific Division along with the Edmonton Oilers, who fell in overtime to the Mammoth Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Knights remain undefeated under Head Coach John Tortorella, moving to 4-0-0 during his time behind the Vegas bench.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s victory marks seven straight wins over Vancouver dating back to the start of the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Smith\u2019s game winner marked Vegas\u2019 100th third-period goal, the most of any team in the NHL this season.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas held Vancouver to just 11 shots in the game, the fewest in\u00a0franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>WHEN VGK WINS, YOU WIN!<br \/>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<p>LOOKING AHEAD<br \/>The team&#8217;s final road trip of the campaign continues in Seattle as they visit the Kraken on Thursday, with puck drop at 7 p.m. 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\/1340.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vegas Golden Knights (36-26-15) beat the Vancouver Canucks (22-47-8), 2-1, on Tuesday night at Rogers Arena to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[149,5317,5,4,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-547398","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\/116369263569855948","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547398","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=547398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}