The Vegas Golden Knights (39-26-17) beat the Seattle Kraken (34-36-11), 4-1, in the final game of the regular season on Wednesday evening at T-Mobile Arena to clinch the Pacific Division.<\/p>\n
HOW IT WENT DOWN TOP PERFORMERS Carter Hart: Hart tallied his sixth straight win since his return to the lineup on April 2, posting a .957 save percentage in the victory.<\/p>\n Shea Theodore: Theodore netted his 10th goal of the season with his game-tying goal.<\/p>\n Mitch Marner: Marner recorded his 24th goal of the season to boost his point total to 80 (24G, 56A).<\/p>\n VGK STATS OF THE KNIGHT Jack Eichel extended his point streak to four games, with eight points (2G, 6A) during the stretch.<\/p>\n Reilly Smith netted three goals in his last two games and recorded a total of four points (3G, 1A).<\/p>\n The Golden Knights led the league scoring in the third period for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n John Tortorella improved his record to 7-0-1 behind the Vegas bench.<\/p>\n Mitch Marner tailed his fifth straight 80-point season, which is the fifth-longest streak among all active NHL players. Marner also became the\u00a0second VGK player to record 80 points in a single season in franchise history.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Golden Knights became the first NHL club to record at least 20 home wins in their first nine seasons.<\/p>\n ATTENDANCE:\u00a018,090<\/p>\n WHEN VGK WINS, YOU WIN! LOOKING AHEAD
After a scoreless first frame, Shane Wright got Seattle on the board first with a goal at 2:24 in the middle period. Shea Theodore<\/a> pulled the game even, 1-1, with 2:25 remaining in the second frame.\u00a0Nic Dowd<\/a> won the offensive zone draw and fed the puck to Reilly Smith<\/a>, who redirected it to Theodore for a shot that beat Nikke Kokko over the left pad. Mitch Marner<\/a> gave the Golden Knights their first lead of the game with a goal at 1:23 in the final period. Brayden McNabb<\/a> scooped up the puck from Jack Eichel\u2019s<\/a> face-off win and fired a shot from the blue line, and Marner tipped the puck into the back of the net. Smith extended the Golden Knights\u2019 edge 3-1 with eight minutes remaining in the contest. Rasmus Andersson<\/a> sent the puck across the slot to Smith for a top-shelf one-timer. Less than five minutes later, Smith netted his second of the night to make it 4-1. Smith capitalized on a scramble in front of the net and tapped the puck past Kokko, with Tomas Hertl<\/a> and Kaedan Korczak<\/a> recording assists on the goal. Carter Hart<\/a> stopped 22 out of 23 shots to seal the final victory of the regular season.<\/p>\n
Reilly Smith: Smith scored a pair of goals and picked up an assist to record his fifth multi-point game of the season.<\/p>\n
The Golden Knights won the Pacific Division title for the fifth time in nine seasons, the most titles of any NHL franchise since 2017-18.<\/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 won the Pacific Division and clinched home-ice advantage in the first round against the Utah Mammoth for the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Game 1 will be available on Scripps Sports (The Spot-Vegas 34 in Vegas) and KnightTime+, or listen live on FOX Sports Las Vegas 94.7\/1340 and Deportes Vegas 1460.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vegas Golden Knights (39-26-17) beat the Seattle Kraken (34-36-11), 4-1, in the final game of the regular…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5,4,51,5290,232,5291,5289],"class_list":{"0":"post-553825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-hockey-club","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-utah","11":"tag-utah-hc","12":"tag-utah-hockey-club","13":"tag-utahhc","14":"tag-utahhockeyclub"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116414420417501862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553825","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=553825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}