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Keegan Kolesar also scored a goal and Jonathan Marchessault and
William Karlsson each had two assists for Vegas, which won its
11th consecutive regular-season meeting with the Sharks dating
back to the 2019-20 season.
The Golden Knights also improved to 14-0-2 in their past 16
regular-season contests against San Jose.
Robin Lehner, playing for the first time since Feb. 9 after
missing five games with an upper-body injury, made 16 saves to
pick up his 20th victory of the season. It also was the 500th
NHL coaching victory for Vegas' Peter DeBoer, who began his
coaching career with the Florida Panthers in 2008-09.
Noah Gregor scored for San Jose, which was playing its sixth
game over a 10-day span. Zach Sawchenko stopped 18 of 20 shots
after replacing starting goaltender James Reimer, who departed
with a lower-body injury after turning aside 10 of 11 shots in
the first period.
San Jose lost for the 11th time in its past 14 games (3-7-4).
Vegas jumped out to a 1-0 lead at the 2:16 mark of the opening
period when Kolesar finished an odd-man rush with Brett Howden.
Kolesar fired a snap shot from the bottom of the left circle
past Reimer's blocker side for his sixth goal of the season.
San Jose tied it early in the second period when Gregor took a
pass from Nick Bonino and shot into a wide-open right side of
the net. It was his first goal in 11 games and third of the
season.
The Golden Knights regained the lead at the 13:56 mark of the
middle period. Smith took a pass from Marchessault between the
hash marks and buried a shot into the top left corner.
Smith made it 3-1 at 4:45 of the third period when he redirected
a touch pass from Karlsson beyond Sawchenko's right pad for his
16th goal of the season and the 22nd two-goal game of his
career.
--Field Level Media
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