William Karlsson scored two goals and Mark Stone had three assists to lead the Golden Knights to a wild 6-5 victory over the Boston Bruins on Thursday night in Las Vegas.
Karlsson scored a short-handed goal and a power-play goal for the first time in his career. Pavel Dorofeyev and Jack Eichel each had a goal and an assist, Tomas Hertl and Cole Reinhardt also scored and Mitch Marner added two assists for Vegas, which won its second straight game. Akira Schmid made 19 saves.
Tanner Jeannot, David Pastrnak, Nikita Zadorov, Mark Kastelic and Michael Eyssimont scored and Sean Kuraly had two assists for Boston. Jeremy Swayman stopped 31 of 37 shots.
Boston took a 1-0 lead at the 2:05 mark of the first period when Jeannot muscled in a rebound of a Charlie McAvoy shot.
Vegas tied it 90 seconds later on Dorofeyev’s sixth goal, a wrist shot from the middle of the right circle that went over Swayman’s right pad.
The Bruins regained the lead near the end of the period on Zadorov’s wrist shot from the left point through traffic but the Knights answered with 1:27 left to tie it at 2-2 when Reinhardt slapped in a rebound of a Ben Hutton shot.
Vegas took its first lead early in the second on Eichel’s fifth goal, a wrist shot from the high slot that caromed in off the crossbar. Hertl, crashing the net, then made it 4-2 with a power-play goal, putting in a rebound of a Dorofeyev shot.
Boston cut the lead to 4-3 midway through the period on Pastrnak’s power-play goal, a wrist shot from the edge of the left circle that went under Schmid’s right arm. Karlsson then put Vegas back up by two just before the end of the period with his 15th career short-handed goal, tapping in a rebound of a Stone shot at the end of a 2-on-1 breakout.
Karlsson extended the lead to 6-3 at the 2:19 mark of the third with a power-play tally, driving the net from the right wing and wrapping a wrist shot around Swayman’s right pad.
The Bruins answered with two goals in a 67-second span to cut the lead to 6-5, the first when Kastelic ripped a wrist shot from the left circle and the second by Eyssimont, who fired a wrist shot five-hole from the top of the right circle.
