The Vegas Golden Knights were tied their game with the Predators in Nashville with 0-3 seconds left on the regulation clock.
Max Pacioretty got the Knights even as the Preds were about to celebrate a rare win.
Paul Stastny finished it off at 1:52 of the extra session to give the Knights a 4-3 win.
“I’ve been in this league long enough to know there’s certain games every year that maybe you should win or shouldn’t win, or you win a different way, or something happens in the game and brings the guys together,” Stastny said. “It’s a game like this where you score late in a tough environment on the road right before Thanksgiving and feel good about yourselves. That’s what we’ve got to do, but we know tomorrow we get back to work.”
Vegas ended a three-game slide with Malcolm Subban making 31 saves for the win.
Matt Duchene, Mikael Granlund and Ryan Ellis rallied the Predators back from an 0-2 deficit to take a third period lead.
“The first 10 minutes were pretty even,” Duchene said. “They get kind of a lucky goal, and they’re up. I thought we took over from there. I thought the last 50 minutes of the game was all us. They had a little push at the end, obviously, and ended up finding one with 0.2 or 0.3 seconds left. It’s crazy. We play such a good game, and we don’t get rewarded with two points.”
Reilly Smith and ark Stone also scored for the Golden Knights.
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Juuse Saros had 26 saves in the loss.
“It would’ve been nice to keep this streak we had going, especially after the negative streak we had there,” Ellis said. “But it happens, and we’ve got to move past it. Obviously we can learn from some of the mistakes but move past it as fast as we can.”
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