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Stars win Game 3 in OT, cut Golden Knights’ lead in West 1st Round

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Stars win Game 3 in OT, cut Golden Knights’ lead in West 1st Round

McNabb lower it to 2-1 at 10:40 with a wrist shot from behind the precise circle after Chandler Stephenson gained the face-off draw.

“We dug ourselves a gap that we have been in a position to climb ourselves out of, however I do use a number of power to get out of there,” Vegas captain Mark Stone mentioned. “Goalie, clearly, saved us within the recreation for the primary 35 minutes, till we obtained the 2-1 purpose. We’re enjoying an excellent workforce, onerous to beat the very best workforce in our convention three video games in a row.

“So, regroup, we’re off, make just a few modifications. However for almost all of the sport, it was simply the beginning that sort of price us.”

Jack Eichel tied it 2-2 with a short-handed purpose at 13:50 on a 2-on-1.

“They’d a degree of urgency that we weren’t in a position to match. Typically that occurs,” Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy mentioned. “In some unspecified time in the future you have to get to your recreation. It simply took us too lengthy. Now, having mentioned that, we climate it due to Logan.

“He gave us each probability to get again within the recreation, and we did so as soon as it was 2-2, then it was just a little bit totally different, however they executed higher than we did. You see it in time beyond regulation. They’d extra soar, extra urgency. We did not have that degree we would have liked tonight to win a playoff hockey recreation.”

NOTES: Johnston (20 years, 349 days) turned the youngest participant in Stars/Minnesota North Stars historical past to attain an time beyond regulation purpose within the playoffs, surpassing the mark set by Steve Ott (21 years, 237 days) in Sport 3 of the 2004 Western Convention Quarterfinals. … Thompson tied Marc-Andre Fleury (Sport 7 of the 2019 first spherical; Sport 2 of the 2018 second spherical) for probably the most saves by a Golden Knights goaltender in a playoff recreation.

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