This poor washer 🚀 pic.twitter.com/3ocqgvege3
– Vegas Golden Knights (@goldenknights) March 24, 2025
The Golden Knights, leader of the Pacific division, moved five points ahead of the inactive Edmonton Oilers, both with 12 games to play.
The Golden Knights are now enjoying a race of 11-3-2 since February 6 and carry their momentum on the road for three games because they are ready to visit Minnesota, Chicago and Nashville next week.
Here are three take -out dishes of the game:
Tomas HURT-L: Hertl, who scored his 31st goal of the season at the top of the team, left the match at the end of the third period when he crashed into the end boards after being pushed by Tampa Bay Defender Emil Lilleberg. Hertl ran on a breakaway, but was on the stone by Tampa Bay Andrei Vasilevskiy goalkeeper. While Hertl was going to gather the rebound on his left, Lilleberg pushed him into the boards. Hertl immediately patinated ice cream and in the locker rooms and did not return. Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said he was assessed after the match and that he will be reassessed in the morning. The Golden Knights should leave for Minneapolis / St. Paul Monday morning.
Here is the replay of Tomas Hertl’s injury. pic.twitter.com/qrgzgyyewj
– Sinbin.vegas (@Sinbinvegas) March 24, 2025
Wham Bam Thank you Sam: Samsonov broke a skid of two games with one of his best performance of the season, given the opponent and the offensive threat that lightning can sometimes be. Tampa Bay’s 38 Tampa Bay shots on the sixth row of the team this season. It was the third largest number of shots that Samsonov faced this season.
"He was solid," Cassidy said. "I thought he was really under control, they are a shooting team in volume. I thought we were protecting most of the Rush Odd-Man type. But there are a lot to come on the net. They turn the rings well, they get three summits with traffic. So he was able to fight through it and find all the rings, then we are able to help him with the lights and the boxes."
Overview of the playoffs: If the playoffs were to start on Monday, the Golden Knights would welcome Minnesota in the first round of the playoffs, because the savages are currently holding place n ° 1 in the Western conference. The teams will meet for the final team in the regular season Tuesday in St. Paul. The Knights won the first two meetings, 3-2 in Minnesota on December 15 and 4-1 on January 12 in Vegas. The teams gathered in 2021 playoffs when the Golden Knights took the series of seven games, 4-3.
"It’s massive. We could play them in the section, so we have to impose (our) game and show that we can do against them," Said Roy. "But at the moment, we really want to focus on obtaining this first seeded in the division, the advantage of ice at home. This is our goal, so we will continue to push for that."
