Golden Knights snap a 4-game skid with a 3-1 victory over Devils

By Allan Kreda

Nicolas Roy, Shea Theodore and Jack Eichel scored and Adin Hill made 16 saves arsenic the Vegas Golden Knights defeated the New Jersey Devils 3-1 connected Thursday nighttime and snapped a four-game skid.

The Golden Knights besides won connected the roadworthy for conscionable the 2nd clip since Jan. 7.

Roy scored his seventh extremity astatine 3:09 of the mediate play to enactment Las Vegas up 1-0. Theodore followed with his seventh astatine 11:18.

Eichel made it 3-0 astatine 4:06 of the 3rd with his 19th goal.

Ondrej Palat ruined Hill’s shutout bid with his 12th extremity astatine 15:43 of the 3rd connected the powerfulness play. Stefan Noesen and Jesper Bratt assisted.

New Jersey was coming disconnected a shootout triumph astatine Pittsburgh connected Tuesday. The Devils are 2-3-0 successful their past 5 games.

Vegas was 1-3-2 successful its erstwhile six contests, including roadworthy losses to the Rangers and Islanders to commencement their existent four-game roadworthy trip.

Devils skipper Nico Hischier missed his 5th crippled aft being cross-checked by Montreal’s Nick Suzuki connected Jan. 25.

Devils defenseman Simon Nemec played successful an NHL crippled for the archetypal clip since Oct. 22 pursuing his callback from AHL Utica.

Allen made 36 saves for the Devils and fell to 8-11-1 this season.

Takeaways
Golden Knights: Improved to 13-11-3 connected the road. Vegas is 19-6-3 astatine home.

Devils: Fell to 15-9-4 astatine home. New Jersey is 8-3-1 astatine Prudential Center since Dec. 12.

Key moment
Roy’s extremity snapped a scoreless necktie and generated momentum for Vegas, which scored much than 2 goals for the archetypal clip since Jan. 28.

Key stat
Hill improved to 20-10-4, the archetypal clip the 28-year-old netminder reached the 20-win milestone. Hill helped Vegas triumph the Stanley Cup successful 2023. He won 19 games past season.

Up Next
Devils: Visit the Montreal Canadiens connected Saturday.

Golden Knights: Travel to Boston to play the Bruins connected Saturday.