{"id":1376,"date":"2026-05-25T06:33:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:33:45","slug":"hertls-late-winner-caps-golden-knights-wild-5-3-rally-giving-them-a-3-0-series-lead-on-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1376","title":{"rendered":"Hertl\u2019s late winner caps Golden Knights\u2019 wild 5-3 rally, giving them a 3-0 series lead on Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 There are a number of adjectives that could be applied to how the Golden Knights have found various ways to win in the regular season and playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1374\">Kerley runs 9.97 at Enhanced Games, where Kristian Gkolomeev gets a $1M bonus for swimming mark<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vegas coach John Tortorella had his own description.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a game where we showed some balls,\u201d the man known as Torts said after the Golden Knights\u2019 latest Houdini act.<\/p>\n<p>Tomas Hertl weaved his way toward the slot and broke a tie at 8:21 of the third period as the Golden Knights overcame a three-goal deficit Sunday night to beat Colorado 5-3 and move within a victory of their third Stanley Cup Final appearance in nine years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt obviously feels really good right now, but we\u2019re playing a hell of a hockey team,\u201d Golden Knights forward Mitch Marner said. \u201cWe know that the next game is going to be even tougher now. Enjoy this for the next 10 minutes, 30 minutes, go home and then try to take care of yourself, and do what you got to do to be ready tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Knights go for what would be a stunning sweep over the Presidents\u2019 Trophy winners on Tuesday night. Chicago in 2013 was the last team to win the Presidents\u2019 Trophy and the Stanley Cup in the same season.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado will try to become just the fifth team to win a series after falling behind 3-0. Los Angeles in 2014 was the most recent team to accomplish that in eliminating San Jose in their first-round series. <\/p>\n<p>Vegas, which trailed 3-0 after the first period, was 0-19 in the playoffs when behind that many goals. The Avalanche were 74-1 when holding such a lead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs low as it can get,\u201d Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said of the team\u2019s emotions. \u201cIt\u2019s a big hill to climb. The next 24-to-36 hours is for \u2026 you\u2019ve got to find a way to get over it, regroup and go again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colorado has other concerns because front-line center Nathan MacKinnon might not be fully healthy going forward. MacKinnon, who has 15 points this postseason and led the league in the regular season with 53 goals, took a puck to his right knee in the second period and played through the injury.<\/p>\n<p>That comes just as the Avalanche got back star defenseman Cale Makar, who missed the first two games this series because of an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas keeps finding aways, going this deep into the postseason despite being outshot in 11 of 15 games, including now nine in a row. The Golden Knights erased deficits the past two games against Colorado, though Game 2 was just 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1372\">Officers closely checking central NC boaters during Memorial Day weekend<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been all season long many times down,\u201d Hertl said. \u201cWe\u2019ve come back so many times. Even after the first when we were down 3-0 we knew we could do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hertl, Mark Stone and William Karlsson each had a goal and assist. Keegan Kolesar and Brett Howden scored the other Golden Knights goals, and Mitch Marner and Kaedan Korczak each tallied two assists. Carter Hart made 32 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Stone\u2019s goal came on his first appearance since suffering a lower-body injury in Game 3 of the second-round series against Anaheim. Kolesar, who had gone 37 playoff games without a goal, picked up his first point of the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Landeskog, Nazem Kadri and Jack Drury scored for the Avalanche, and Devon Toews had two assists. Scott Wedgewood stopped 18 shots.<\/p>\n<p>The Avalanche dominated the first period by taking a 3-0 lead, but the Golden Knights thought they had cut the deficit to 2-1 when Pavel Dorofeyev appeared to score a power-play goal with 7:26 left. Officials immediately waved it off and the decision was upheld on video review. <\/p>\n<p>Colorado then made the Golden Knights pay when Drury found himself alone on a breakaway, deking Vegas goalie Hart to score the short-handed goal with 6:45 left for the three-goal lead.<\/p>\n<p>But the Golden Knights didn\u2019t let the two-goal swing trouble them too much, with Stone\u2019s power-play goal 19 seconds into the second period sparking a three-goal answer to tie the game heading into the final period of regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Then Hertl broke the deadlock \u2014 and now the Golden Knights just need to win one of four games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want them to feel it for a little bit, as far as what they just did against a really good hockey club,\u201d Tortorella said, \u201cbut then we get back to work tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was a moment of silence before the game for two-time NASCAR champion driver and Las Vegas native Kyle Busch. He died Thursday at 41 after severe pneumonia developed into sepsis, according to a statement from Busch\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1370\">15+ new fire photos released of Goldboro infero that illuminated sky, gutting home and displacing three<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/stanley-cup and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 There are a number of adjectives that could be applied to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hertl\u2019s late winner caps Golden Knights\u2019 wild 5-3 rally, giving them a 3-0 series lead on Avalanche - 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