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Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Logan Thompson (36) celebrates as overtime victory over the St. Louis Blues with teammates Ivan Barbashev (49), Zach Whitecloud (2) and Nicolas Roy (10) Monday, March 25, 2024, in St. Louis.
Published Monday, March 25, 2024 | 8:15 p.m.
Updated Monday, March 25, 2024 | 9:20 p.m.
ST. LOUIS — Jonathan Marchessault scored 49 seconds into overtime and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the St. Louis Blues 2-1 Monday night for their third straight win.
Pavel Dorofeyev also scored and Logan Thompson stopped 30 shots to help Vegas win for the sixth time in its last eight games. The Golden Knights moved five points ahead of the Blues for the final Western Conference wild card.
“I think the word is clutch that we’re looking for,” Vegas center William Karlsson said about Thompson. “They were clutch and obviously a huge save there on their penalty shot in OT. That’s what we need from the goalies at this time of year.”
The Blues’ Pavel Buchnevich was awarded a penalty shot 30 seconds into overtime after Noah Hanifin tripped him on breakaway. Thompson denied him with a glove save to keep the score deadlocked at 1-1.
Just 19 seconds later, Marchessault picked up a loose puck behind the Blues’ net while William Karlsson fended off two players along the end boards, brought it out on the left side and settled it before firing his 39th goal of the season past Binnington.
“He’s a big goal type of guy,” Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said. “He is always going to rise up to the moment. That’s one thing about (Marchessault), no matter if he’s had a great game an average game or a poor game, he’s always going to be ready to go when the bright lights are on and tonigh was no different.”
Blues center Oskar Sundqvist left the game with a lower body injury after being checked into the boards by Bryaden McNabb 9:50 into the second period.
Schenn fought McNabb 10:43 into the first period after taking exception to McNabb’s high hit on Brandon Saad in the corner of the Vegas zone. Saad missed the remainder of the first period but returned to the game at the start of the second.
Dorofeyev skated in on Binnington and scored his 11th goal of the season 5:59 into the first period to give Vegas a 1-0 lead.
Vegas defenseman Alex Pietrangelo was scratched for the fourth straight game due to illness and did not accompany the team to St. Louis.
