Noah Hanifin broke a tie with an unassisted goal late in the second period and the Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights beat the top-seeded Dallas Stars 3-1 on Wednesday night to take a 2-0 lead in the first-round series.
Vegas captain Mark Stone scored quickly after missing two months, Tomas Hertl had a nifty goal in his playoff debut for the Golden Knights and the reigning Stanley Cup champions opened defense of their title with a 4-3 win over the top-seeded Dallas Stars on Monday night.
Captain Mark Stone returned to the ice and made his presence felt immediately, scoring VGK’s first goal of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs as the Vegas Golden Knights topped the Dallas Stars, 4-3, in Game 1 of the series.
The Vegas Golden Knights announced the organization’s plans for fan activations this weekend, as well as the team’s official watch party for Game 1 of the First Round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Jack Eichel, Nicolas Roy and Pavel Dorofeyev each had a goal and an assist, Chandler Stephenson had four assists and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Minnesota Wild 7-2 Friday night to clinch a playoff berth for the sixth time in seven seasons.
Brayden Point scored two third-period goals and Nikita Kucherov had a four-point night to lift the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 5-3 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights.
Four years ago, Gage Quinney made history becoming the first player born in Nevada to play in the National Hockey League. Thanks to the boom of youth hockey in Southern Nevada, we know he won’t be the last and this year there are a pair of Jr. Golden Knights players that look to be skating on the same trajectory as their NHL idols.
The Vegas Jr. Golden Knights girls 14U AA team punched their ticket to the USA National Tournament, becoming the first female hockey program to represent the state of Nevada.