Hurricanes surge in third period, hand Golden Knights 2nd straight loss 

End of Game: Hurricanes surge successful 3rd period, manus Golden Knights 2nd consecutive loss 

Back-to-back goals successful the archetypal six minutes of the 3rd play gave the Carolina Hurricanes a 3-2 triumph implicit the Vegas Golden Knights tonight. 

Less than a infinitesimal into the period, Carolina went connected a 3-on-2 break, with Jackson Blake's changeable bouncing disconnected of Noah Hanifin and into the nett for its archetypal pb of the night, 2-1. About 5 minutes later, Seth Jarvis scored his 2nd extremity of the crippled connected a 2-on-1. Alex Pietrangelo committed to defending Jordan Staal connected the odd-man rush, leaving Jarvis wide unfastened for the extremity and extending the pb to 3-1.

The Golden Knights did propulsion to wrong a extremity arsenic Shea Theodore scored from the constituent 29 seconds into a powerfulness play to marque it 3-2. Pavel Dorofeyev recorded an assistance connected the goal, which is his seventh constituent successful 3 games. 

Vegas pulled Adin Hill for an other attacker with 2:40 near successful the game. A face-off successful the Golden Knights' extremity forced Hill to spell backmost into the net. A miscommunication for Hill to travel backmost to the seat led to Victor Olofsson jumping connected the crystal excessively early, starring to a too-many-men penalty. That turned a 6-on-5 vantage to 5-on-5, arsenic the Golden Knights elected to propulsion Hill for an other attacker. 

The Golden Knights couldn't person successful the last minutes and person present mislaid 4 of their past five. They are present 6-9-1 against Eastern Conference contention this season. They autumn to 29-13-3 and are present tied with the Edmonton Oilers for the apical spot successful the Pacific Division with 61 points. 

Vegas has a speedy turnaround arsenic it volition question to Chicago to look the Blackhawks connected Saturday astatine 5 p.m. 

End of Second Period: Golden Knights, Hurricanes commercialized goals to stay tied 

After a scoreless archetypal period, some the Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes got connected the committee successful the 2nd period, tied 1-1.

Five minutes into the frame, Tomas Hertl made a determination to the backhand to get astir defender Dmitry Orlov and bushed goalie Pyotr Kochetkov to springiness Vegas a 1-0 lead. Victor Olofsson recorded his 100th vocation assistance connected the extremity and has 199 vocation points. 

The pb didn't clasp for long. Eight minutes later, the Golden Knights failed to wide the puck retired of their zone, and the Hurricanes capitalized. Jaccob Slavin threw the puck connected the net, and Jordan Martinook passed it to Seth Jarvis, who bushed Adin Hill's acold blocker to necktie the game. 

Three much penalties were awarded successful the 2nd period. The Hurricanes' Sean Walker slashed Keegan Kolesar connected a breakaway, starring to a punishment shot, which Kolesar missed trying to spell blocker broadside connected Kochetkov. Brayden McNabb was aboriginal called for hold of the game, and 7 seconds aft the Golden Knights killed the punishment off, Noah Hanifin was called for tripping. Vegas has successfully killed disconnected 4 penalties tonight. 

Carolina had a 13-8 changeable borderline successful the period, but Vegas is narrowly outshooting the Hurricanes, 21-20. 

End of First Period: Despite 3 powerfulness plays, Golden Knights, Hurricanes scoreless

The Vegas Golden Knights were connected the powerfulness play twice, and the Carolina Hurricanes once, successful the archetypal period, but some teams person yet to score, tied 0-0 astatine the extremity of the archetypal period.

For the Golden Knights' archetypal powerfulness play, the Hurricanes' Jesperi Kotkaniemi was called for holding connected Brett Howden. Vegas had 4 shots connected extremity but couldn't convert. Nine minutes later, Zach Whitecloud was called for cross-checking, but Carolina failed to people successful 3 shots connected goal.

The last punishment of the play was called connected Carolina's Sean Walker for holding connected Victor Olofsson. Tomas Hertl had the lone changeable connected extremity arsenic the Golden Knights struggled to acceptable up successful the zone.

Vegas has a 13-7 changeable vantage successful the crippled and is winning 61% of face-offs. Hurricanes goalie Pyotr Kochetkov has made a fistful of large saves and has been their champion subordinate truthful far. Adin Hill is successful nett for the Golden Knights.

Pregame: Golden Knights look to extremity Eastern Conference struggles against Hurricanes

Despite having 1 of the champion records successful the NHL, the Vegas Golden Knights person struggled against Eastern Conference teams, with a 6-8-1 grounds against them.

They'll look to amended upon that grounds erstwhile they instrumentality connected the Carolina Hurricanes astatine 4 p.m. contiguous successful Raleigh.

Vegas has struggled to find its discourtesy recently, dropping 3 of its past 4 games. Two of those losses person been to Eastern Conference teams — the New York Islanders and Rangers.

The Golden Knights' astir caller effect was a 5-3 nonaccomplishment to the Nashville Predators.Vegas was down 4-0 and outshot 11-1 successful the archetypal play of that game.

Coach Bruce Cassidy said the mode the Golden Knights played successful the archetypal 30 minutes was the worst helium had seen successful his 2 and a fractional years successful Vegas.

Pavel Dorofeyev's archetypal vocation chapeau instrumentality kept the Golden Knights successful the game. His discourtesy has been captious successful keeping the Golden Knights from sinking successful the standings. He has scored 5 goals successful the past 2 games.

Carolina, meanwhile, has caused the Golden Knights problems earlier this season.

In November, the Hurricanes defeated Vegas 5-2 astatine T-Mobile Arena. The Golden Knights went down 4-0 halfway done the 2nd period, and goalie Adin Hill was pulled for Henderson call-up Akira Schmid.

With today’s game, the Hurricanes are besides looking to get backmost connected the winning broadside of things. They've mislaid back-to-back games against 2 of the worst teams successful the league — the Anaheim Ducks, 3-2, connected Sunday and the Buffalo Sabres, 4-2, connected Wednesday.

Players to watch

Golden Knights: Pavel Dorofeyev (forward) 44 games played, 19 goals, 8 assists, 27 points; Jack Eichel (center) 43 games played, 11 goals, 43 assists, 54 points; Mark Stone (forward) 30 games played, 12 goals, 27 assists, 39 points.

Carolina: Martin Necas (center) 45 games played, 16 goals, 35 assists, 51 points; Sebastian Aho (center) 45 games played, 13 goals, 31 assists, 44 points; Andrei Svechnikov (forward) 45 games played, 15 goals, 17 assists, 32 points.

Non-active players

Golden Knights: None to report.

Carolina: Tyson Jost (lower body), William Carrier (lower body), Jesper Fast (neck)

How to watch

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

Betting line

Golden Knights +140 Carolina -166. Over/under 5.5 (-125/+105)

Who is successful goal

Golden Knights: TBD

Carolina: Pyotr Kochetkov - 28 games played, 16-9-2 record, 2.54 goals against average, .901 prevention percentage, 1 shutout.