Victor Olofsson scored the first goal of 3:14 left to lead the visiting Vegas Golden Knights to a 3-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday evening.
William Karlsson set up the game winner when he wore the puck behind the net and then backdred a pass to Olofsson alone in the low track where he snapped a wrist shot past the glove side of Kevin Lankinen and inside the right post.
Ivan Barbashev and Nicolas Roy also scored for Vegas (47-22-8, 102 points), which increased its Pacific Division led to five points over the vacant second place Los Angeles Kings with the victory. Adin Hill made 19 rescues to pick up his 30th victory in the season.
Nils Hoglander and Aatu RATY scored Vancouver (35-29-13, 83 points), which fell eight points behind Minnesota Wild (42-29-7, 91 points) with just for the final Western Conference Wild card site with only five games left. Lankinen finished with 32 rescues.
Vancouver took a lead at 1-0 at the ground 4:46 the first period when Hoglander, back after missing six matches with an unclear injury, swept in a recovery of a Pius Suter shot.
Vegas band it halfway through the period when Barbashev took a pass from Mark Stone on the left wing and then cut in front of the net and wrapped a backhand shot around Lankinen’s left cushion.
Roy gave Golden Knights a 2-1 lead a few minutes later when the recovery of his bang shot carominated on the back of the skate to defender Victor Mancini.
Canucks tied it, 2-2, halfway through the second period on a rebound target by Raty in front of the net. Vegas challenged without success for goal disorders when reprints showed that Raty had encountered Hill’s glove in the blue color before Hill made a rescue on a Filip Hronek shot before Ratys Rebound points. Golden Knights then successfully killed the subsequent delay in the game penalty.
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