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With Barclay Goodrow in the penalty box for
slashing Brayden McNabb, Hertl took a stretch pass from Marc-Edouard
Vlasic at the Vegas blue line and then fired a wrist shot from
the top of the left circle that beat Marc-Andre Fleury on his
blocker side for the game-winner.
The goal was the first short-handed winner in a multi-overtime
game in NHL history. It came on San Jose's only shot of the
second overtime and evened the best-of-seven series at three
games apiece after consecutive Sharks victories. Game 7 is
Tuesday night in San Jose.
Logan Couture also scored for San Jose, which won a
double-overtime playoff game in Las Vegas for the second
straight year.
Jones, pulled in four of his previous eight games against the
Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena, also set a career-high with
the 58 saves, 10 more than his previous mark.
Jonathan Marchessault scored a goal, and Fleury stopped 27 of 29
shots for the Golden Knights.
San Jose took a 1-0 lead with nine seconds to go in the first
period on Couture's fourth goal of the playoffs. Timo Meier
poked the puck away from Vegas defenseman Deryk Engelland in the
neutral zone to Couture, who then carried the puck into the
Golden Knights' zone. He deked Nate Schmidt and then fired a
wrist shot from the top of the left circle that beat Fleury on
his glove side.
Marchessault tied it midway through the second period when he
backhanded a rebound of a Shea Theodore shot over Jones' right
pad. It was Marchessault's third straight game with a goal.
Vegas dominated the action from midway of the second period to
the end of the third, outshooting the Sharks, 25-3, over one 22
1/2-minute span and 17-4 in the third period. The best chance
for the Golden Knights came with four minutes to go when Tomas
Nosek broke in free up the middle for an apparent breakaway, but
Brenden Dillon dove at the last minute and swiped the puck off
Nosek's stick before he could get a shot off.
Both teams had excellent chances to win it in the first
overtime. Meier had a shot that went by Fleury but was saved at
the goal line by the skates of defensemen Colin Miller and Jon
Merrill before it could trickle in. Marchessault had two
close-in wrist shots in the slot just seconds apart that Jones
stopped.
Vegas finished with a 59-29 shot advantage, including an 8-1
edge in the second overtime.
--Field Level Media
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