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Alexey Toropchenko also scored a goal and
Colton Parayko added two assists for St. Louis, which has
alternated wins and losses for seven games. Jordan Binnington
finished with 33 saves to improve to 8-2-4 in his career against
Vegas.
Jack Eichel scored for the third consecutive game and Logan
Thompson made 25 saves for the Golden Knights, who had a
two-game winning streak snapped.
The Golden Knights tied it 1-1 with 7:02 left in the third
period on a power-play goal by Eichel. He snapped a wrist shot
from the top of the right circle past a screened Binnington and
into the top far left corner of the net for his 11th goal of the
season.
St. Louis took a 1-0 lead in the first period despite the fact
Vegas swarmed Binnington for much of the period. The Golden
Knights firing 13 shots in the frame, including a pair of
breakaways by ex-Blue Ivan Barbashev and Paul Cotter and five
more grade-A chances on odd-man rushes.
The Blues, who went eight minutes without a shot on goal near
the end of the period, still managed to take the lead with 20.7
seconds left when Toropchenko deflected Parayko's wrist shot
from the right point through Thompson's pads for his fifth goal
of the season.
Eichel, coming into the contest with back-to-back three-point
games for the first time in his career, had the best chance to
tie it during a scoreless second period. He broke in free down
the slot, but Binnington pokechecked the puck away as the Vegas
center attempted a backhand shot.
St. Louis improved to 12-0-0 when scoring the first in a game,
the only team in the league without a loss. The two teams meet
again on Wednesday in St. Louis.
--Field Level Media
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