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Marc-Andre Fleury made 19 saves for the
Knights, who move on to face No. 1 seed Colorado in the second
round on Sunday night in Denver.
Max Pacioretty scored the go-ahead goal during a three-goal
second period. Nicolas Hague and Zach Whitecloud also scored
goals, and Chandler Stephenson and Shea Theodore each had two
assists for Vegas.
Janmark, obtained from Chicago in a three-way trade with San
Jose on April 12, had scored just one goal for the Golden
Knights entering the contest.
Zach Parise and Kirill Kaprizov scored goals and Cam Talbot
finished with 29 saves for Minnesota, which had staved off
elimination twice while battling back from a 3-1 series deficit.
Vegas took a 1-0 lead at the 5:09 mark of the first period when
Janmark broke in between a pair of Wild defenders, deked Talbot
and then slid a shot past the right pad of the Wild goalie.
Parise, a healthy scratch in the first three games of the
series, then tied it late in the period with his second goal of
the playoffs, posting up in front of the crease and then
backhanding a shot between his legs and Fleury's pads.
Shortly after Kaprizov fired a shot off the crossbar, the Golden
Knights took a 2-1 lead early in the second period when Hague
fired a wrist shot through traffic from the left point for his
first playoff goal.
Minnesota tied it with a power-play goal by Kaprizov, who took a
pass from Mats Zuccarello while cutting in front of the right
circle and buried a shot through Fleury's pads for his second
goal of the playoffs.
Pacioretty, left alone in the slot, then gave Vegas a 3-2 lead
midway through the period when he one-timed Stephenson's pass
from along the left boards. It was the first goal since April 28
for Pacioretty, who was making his playoff debut after leaving a
May 1 game at Arizona with an undisclosed injury.
Whitecloud made it 4-2 later in the period with his first
playoff goal, beating Talbot with a wrist shot from the center
of the right circle. Janmark then sealed with his second goal of
the game off a feed from Nicolas Roy with 7:24 left.
Minnesota pulled Talbot with 4:58 to go and Janmark completed
the hat trick with an empty net goal.
--Field Level Media
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