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Vegas finishes the regular season on Thursday
against the visiting Anaheim Ducks, while Los Angeles hosts
Chicago on Thursday. The Kings, who were idle on Tuesday while
dropping into the second wild-card spot in the Western
Conference, hold the regulation-wins tiebreaker.
The Golden Knights posted their third win in a row.
Jason Dickinson scored for Chicago, which took its fifth
straight loss. Petr Mrazek stopped 34 of 36 shots for the
Blackhawks, who fell to an NHL-worst 7-32-1 on the road.
Chicago had a chance to take the lead early in the second period
when center Frank Nazar, appearing in just his second NHL game
after playing for Michigan in the Frozen Four last week, broke
down the slot on a partial breakaway, but McNabb poked the puck
away before he could get a shot off.
The Golden Knights took a 1-0 lead at 16:25 of the second
period. McNabb collected the rebound of a Tomas Hertl shot, spun
and shot the puck inside the left post for his fourth goal of
the season and first in the past 17 games.
Amadio extended the lead to 2-0 at 7:13 of the third period when
he rushed up the right wing after blocking a shot and roofed a
shot past Mrazek's glove side for his 14th goal.
The Blackhawks cut the deficit to 2-1 with 3:58 remaining when
Dickinson scored his 22nd goal during a goalmouth scrum, putting
in a rebound of a Connor Bedard shot that bounced in off the
stick of Vegas defenseman Noah Hanifin.
Chicago pulled Mrazek for an extra attacker with two minutes
remaining, and Roy sealed the win for the Golden Knights with an
empty-netter with 1:36 to go.
--Field Level Media
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