Vegas Golden Knights are one win away from the Stanley Cup Final after beating the Dallas Stars 4-0 as hotheaded captain Jamie Benn is ejected less than two minutes into Game 3
- Knights goalkeeper Adin Hill made 34 saves for his first career postseason shutout
- Stars captain Jamie Benn was sent off after less than two minutes
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Adin Hill made 34 saves for his first career postseason shutout and the visiting Vegas Golden Knights took a commanding lead into the Western Conference Finals with a 4-0 victory against the Dallas Stars in Game 3 on Tuesday-evening.
The Golden Knights have a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series and won five in a row heading into Game 4 in Dallas on Thursday-evening.
Ivan Barbashev had a goal and two assists, Jonathan Marchessault, William Carrier and Alex Pietrangelo also scored and Nicolas Roy had two assists for the Golden Knights
Vegas chased down Dallas goaltender Jake Oettinger with three goals in the first 7:10. Oettinger made two saves before being replaced by Scott Wedgewood, who stopped 10 of 11 shots the rest of the way.
Stars captain Jamie Benn was ejected less than two minutes into the game for cross-checking Golden Knights captain Mark Stone.
Vegas Golden Knights’ Alex Pietrangelo, second from right, celebrates his goal vs. the stars
Star captain Jamie Benn was called for a 5-minute major and game misconduct for a cross-checking penalty against Mark Stone during the first period
Dallas outshot Vegas 34-16.
Marchessault, who scored the tying goal with 2:22 left in Game 2 on Sunday as Vegas won its second consecutive 3-2 game in overtime, gave the Golden Knights a 1-0 lead just 1:11 into Game 3.
Jack Eichel saw Marchessault skate into a clearing in front of the Dallas net and sent him a cross-ice pass. Marchessault stopped the puck as he skated backwards into the left circle and scored with a quick wrist shot.
Less than a minute later, Benn was called for a five-minute major penalty and assessed a misspelling for cross-checking Stone in the face while the Vegas forward lay on his back on the ice.
Dallas beat Vegas 34-16, but lacked the edge to narrow the overall series deficit
Golden Knights head coach Bruce Cassidy is now just one win away from reaching the Finals
The Stars held Vegas to one shot for the first four minutes of the power play, almost scoring on a two-for-one, but the Golden Knights went the other way after Hill’s save and Barbashev scored from the rush for a 2-0 lead . at 5:57.
Carrier scored high with a backhand to give Vegas a 3-0 lead at 7:10, and Oettinger had his night early for a third time in the 2023 playoffs.
Pietrangelo scored a second after the Golden Knights’ second power play ended, hitting the net with a wrist shot from above the right circle for a 4–0 lead at 8:28 of the second period.
The Stars also lost forward Evgenii Dadonov to a lower body injury early in the first period and were back with nine forwards after Max Domi suffered a 10-minute misconduct with 22 seconds left in the second period.
The second period was stopped after Domi’s penalty and the intermission started because fans threw debris on the ice.