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It was Petersen's second victory in 10 days
over Vegas, which had a six-game home winning streak snapped. On
March 21 in Los Angeles, Petersen had 41 saves, including 23 in
the third period, in a 3-1 victory over the Golden Knights.
He is now 4-1-0 in his career against Vegas.
Lias Andersson, Jaret Anderson-Dolan and Alex Iafallo also
scored goals for the Kings, who moved within four points of
fourth-place St. Louis for the final playoff spot in the West
Division.
Shea Theodore had a goal and an assist and William Karlsson also
scored for Vegas, which dropped out of first place in the West.
Marc-Andre Fleury finished with 26 saves for the Golden Knights,
who fell a point behind the Colorado Avalanche, a 9-3 winner
over the Arizona Coyotes earlier Wednesday night.
Los Angeles jumped out to a 1-0 lead at the 1:58 mark of the
first period. Athanasiou raced past William Carrier and Zach
Whitecloud for Sean Walker's bank pass off the glass and then
backhanded a shot past Fleury for his seventh goal of the
season.
Andersson made it 2-0 near the end of the period when he reached
over Fleury to tap in a rebound of Tobias Bjornfot's shot that
had settled in the crease. It was his second goal of the season.
Karlsson cut it to 2-1 midway in the second period with his
ninth goal of the season, banking in a sharp-angle rebound from
the right goal line off Petersen's leg.
Anderson-Dolan answered less than three minutes later with his
fourth goal of the season, knocking in a rebound of an
Athanasiou shot that Fleury lost track of in the crease.
Iafallo made it 4-1 when he eluded Fleury's poke-check try and
fired a wrist shot into the far corner at 16:12 of the second.
He tallied his ninth goal of the season.
Vegas, after killing a five-minute major on Chandler Stephenson
for elbowing Bjornfot in the head, cut it to 4-2 at the 3:36
mark of the third period. Theodore fired a shot from the left
point through traffic past a screened Petersen for his sixth
goal of the season.
Vegas pulled Fleury for an extra attacker with 1:50 remaining,
and Petersen sealed the win with a pair of big saves on shots by
Theodore and Alec Martinez.
--Field Level Media
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