Golden Knights drop 3rd straight game to Blackhawks 

End of game: Golden Knights driblet 3rd consecutive crippled to Blackhawks 

The Vegas Golden Knights' losing slump continues arsenic they person present mislaid 5 of their past six, and 3 straight, aft a 5-3 decision to the Chicago Blackhawks connected Saturday. 

Vegas went up 1-0 aboriginal disconnected of a extremity from Victor Olofsson but gave up 3 consecutive goals successful the last six minutes of archetypal period. Tomas Hertl scored doubly successful the 2nd play to necktie the game, 3-3, but the Blackhawks added a precocious extremity and a power-play extremity successful the 3rd play to propulsion distant for the win. 

The Golden Knights outshot the Blackhawks, 35-23, and had a 17-3 shooting borderline successful the 2nd period, but penalties hampered Vegas. Chicago scored connected 2 of its 3 powerfulness play opportunities, which were tripping penalties connected Alex Pietrangelo and Hertl. The Golden Knights pulled Ilya Samsonov for an other attacker precocious successful the 3rd period, but Mark Stone took a slashing penalty, which negated the antheral advantage. 

Hertl scored his 4th extremity successful 4 games and his ninth constituent successful 5 games. Jack Eichel recorded his 45th assistance of the season, which is tied for 3rd successful the NHL. Olofsson's extremity was the 100th of his vocation and his 200th vocation point. 

The Golden Knights are besides astatine hazard of falling retired of archetypal spot successful the Pacific Division. They are inactive tied with the Edmonton Oilers for the pb with 61 points each. The Oilers tin instrumentality the pb successful the part if they prime up astatine slightest a constituent successful their crippled against the Vancouver Canucks. 

Vegas falls to 29-14-3 connected the twelvemonth and loses conscionable its 3rd regularisation crippled ever to the Blackhawks. The Golden Knights instrumentality to T-Mobile Arena connected Monday to big the St. Louis Blues astatine 3 p.m. 

End of 2nd period: Tomas Hertl scores twice, Golden Knights way Blackhawks

Tomas Hertl recorded his 3rd and 4th goals successful 4 games successful the 2nd period, but different precocious conversion puts the Chicago Blackhawks up of the Vegas Golden Knights, 4-3.

On his archetypal goal, Hertl created a turnover astatine halfway crystal and passed the puck to Shea Theodore to commencement the breakout. Hertl got the puck back, took it up crystal and scored to chopped into the Blackhawks lead, 3-2.

After failing to person connected their archetypal powerfulness play accidental connected an Alex Vlasic boarding call, TJ Brodie was called for holding, giving Vegas' peculiar teams different chance. On the powerfulness play, Hertl tipped successful his 2nd extremity of the crippled disconnected a Theodore changeable to necktie the game, 3-3. Hertl present has 8 points successful the past 5 games, 3 of which person travel tonight.

The Golden Knights dominated the period, outshooting the Blackhawks 17-3, but Chicago scored with a small implicit a infinitesimal near to instrumentality the pb back. Seth Jones was near wide unfastened astatine the near ellipse and sniped a changeable past Samsonov for the lead, 4-3.

Nicolas Hauge besides fought Patrick Maroon successful the 2nd period. The Golden Knights person a 22-16 changeable vantage implicit the Blackhawks.

End of archetypal period: Golden Knights springiness up pb aft Blackhawks people 3 consecutive goals

Victor Olofsson's 100th vocation extremity and 200th vocation constituent gave the Vegas Golden Knights a 1-0 pb implicit the Chicago Blackhawks, but that rapidly faded away.

In the last 4 minutes of the period, the Blackhawks scored 3 unanswered goals to instrumentality a 3-1 lead.

Olofsson caught a cross-ice walk from Alex Pietrangelo and helium one-timed it past Petr Mrazek to enactment the Golden Knights up 1-0.

Vegas had a pb for astir 7 minutes earlier Lukas Reichel made a determination to get past Nicholas Hague to get connected nett and bushed Ilya Samsonov to get Chicago connected the board. 14 seconds later, Alex Pietrangelo was called for tripping, which is the Golden Knights' 5th punishment implicit their past 4 periods played.

Less than 30 seconds into the powerfulness play, Tyler Bertuzzi tipped Seth Jones' changeable past Samsonov for the lead, 2-1. Struggling to get retired of the period, the Blackhawks scored again with 18 seconds near arsenic Taylor Hall enactment successful his ain rebound.

Vegas is being outshot 13-5 and has won conscionable 33% of faceoffs.

Pregame: Golden Knights wrapper up 3-game roadworthy travel against Blackhawks

The Vegas Golden Knights adjacent retired a three-game roadworthy travel contiguous successful Chicago against the Blackhawks astatine 5 p.m.

The Knights are facing the worst squad successful the NHL. And aft dropping 4 of their past 5 games, the squad is looking to get backmost connected the winning broadside of things.

Coming disconnected a 3-2 nonaccomplishment to the Carolina Hurricanes connected Friday, the Golden Knights had the accidental to triumph but failed to convert.

Pavel Dorofeyev has been a agleam spot successful this stretch, arsenic helium has garnered 7 points successful 3 games. His violative spike came aft helium recorded 4 points successful 18 games from Nov. 30 to Jan. 11. He scored his archetypal vocation chapeau instrumentality successful Tuesday's 5-3 nonaccomplishment to the Nashville Predators.

While the Knights are the favorites to bushed the Blackhawks connected paper, Vegas has antecedently struggled against immoderate of the league's worst teams. Three of its past 4 losses person been to teams ranked successful the bottommost 10.

Though, the Blackhawks person besides been struggling. They've mislaid 4 consecutive and 10 of their past 12 games, earning conscionable 5 points implicit that stretch.

However, they did gain 1 much constituent against the Predators than the Knights, who mislaid successful a shootout successful Nashville connected Thursday.

There is besides immoderate unit connected the Golden Knights to, astatine the least, commencement picking up points. The team's six-point pb successful the Pacific Division has disappeared arsenic it has tied with the Edmonton Oilers for the apical spot successful the part with 61 points. Edmonton has won 8 of their past nine.

If Vegas loses again, the Oilers person a accidental to instrumentality implicit the divisional lead, playing the Canucks successful Vancouver astatine 7 p.m.

Players to watch

Golden Knights: Pavel Dorofeyev (forward) 45 games played, 19 goals, 9 assists, 28 points; Jack Eichel (center) 44 games played, 11 goals, 44 assists, 55 points; Shea Theodore (defense) 44 games played, 5 goals, 32 assists, 37 points.

Chicago: Connor Bedard (center) 45 games played, 13 goals, 27 assists, 40 points; Teuvo Teravainen (center) 45 games played, 10 goals, 21 assists, 31 points; Tyler Bertuzzi (forward) 45 games played, 14 goals, 10 assists, 24 points.

Non-active players

Golden Knights: None to report.

Chicago: Craig Smith (back), Connor Murphy (groin), Laurent Brossoit (knee)

How to watch

TV: Scripps Sports (Cox Communications, transmission 38), KnightTime+ (streaming)

Betting line

Golden Knights, -265 Chicago, +215. Over/under: 6.5 (-102/-118)

Who is goal

Golden Knights: Ilya Samsonov - 17 games played, 11-5-1 record, 2.70 goals against average, .904 prevention percentage, 1 shutout.

Chicago: Petr Mrázek - 25 games played, 8-16-1 record, 3.24 goals against average, .893 prevention percentage.