In Las Vegas, Cam Talbot made 27 saves and the Minnesota Wild scored twice in the third period to erase a 1-0 Vegas lead and win 2-1 on Saturday night.
“We really went in after the second period and said, ‘We’ve been here a lot,'” Minnesota head coach Dean Evason said. “We clearly didn’t know we’re going to score two goals, but we kept doing the right things. All the lines and six [defensemen] were engaged in this hockey game.”
In 55 seconds, the Wild turned one-goal deficit into a 2-1 lead they would not relinquish.
“We got something to prove coming into this building,” Talbot said. “There’s not too many teams better in locking it down to preserve a win [than Vegas].”
Kirill Kaprizov and Joel Eriksson Ek were the Wild strikers.
“Tonight, I thought, was one of our more complete games of the season,” Talbot said. “We stuck with it in the third period. That’s a big character win, and two big wins in this building.”
Tomas Nosek scored for the Golden Knights.
“They’re a good defensive team and we knew coming into this series we were going to have to win net-fronts. Story of tonight, their two goals went a combined, probably, 8-12 inches,” Vegas head coach Peter DeBoer said. “I don’t think we went there enough, but we had enough chances to extend the lead and put them in a hole where they had to change the game and we didn’t do that.”
Marc-Andre Fleury made 25 saves in the loss.
“We played pretty defensive. We made a lot of mistakes,” Vegas’ Mark Stone said. “We’ve had our looks, we’ve had our chances. Go up 1-0 into the third and lost the game, we were right there. Just got to find more ways to score goals.”
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