In Dallas, Jonathan Marchessault scored with 62 seconds left on the regulation clock on Wednesday to force overtime between his Vegas Golden Knights and the Stars.
Vegas’ Evgenii Dadonov completed the rally when he scored with 1:59 gone in the extra session.
“I think over a long season, you have to win all kinds of different ways,” Vegas head coach Peter DeBoer said. “You’re going to show up tired, you’re going to show up off your game. You’ve got to get hot in different areas. Tonight, it was goaltending, and we hung around and found a way at the end.”
Laurent Brossoit made 32 saves for Vegas in the win.
“I thought their forecheck in the first and the second period was amazing,” Marchessault said. “We were having a hard time getting out of their zone.”
Alexander Radulov and Luke Glendening were the Dallas strikers.
“I thought our guys did a great job of weathering the storm the first period,” Brossoit said. “Getting the plane legs, the travel legs, out of us and making smart choices. Chipping pucks out, as cliché as that sounds.”
Shea Theodore also scored for the Knights in regulation, his goal tied the game, 1-1.
“I think it started with the work ethic,” Glendening said. “We were working hard, getting pucks in their end, and we had a shoot-first mentality. Created some chaos and it worked out for us.”
Dallas’ Anton Khudobin made 18 saves in the loss.
“We’ve just got to keep playing the same way like we played the first two periods and we’ll be fine,” Radulov said. “Just work, that’s the No. 1 thing.”
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