Golden Knights recover, top Ducks in OT for sixth straight win

ANAHEIM -- Shea Theodore scored with 1:10 left in overtime, and the Vegas Golden Knights extended their season-best winning streak to six games with a 6-5 victory against the Anaheim Ducks at Honda Center on Sunday.

William Karlsson had his third NHL hat trick, Mark Stone had four assists, and Malcolm Subban made 25 saves for the Golden Knights (34-22-8), who extended their Pacific Division lead to three points over the Edmonton Oilers.
Karlsson had not scored in the previous 21 games.
"It feels like it's been forever," he said. "I'm very thankful for those three goals and the two points."
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Adam Henrique and Nick Ritchie each had two goals and two assists, and John Gibson made 22 saves for the Ducks (24-30-8), who have lost five straight at home (0-4-1).
Stone intercepted a pass from Ryan Getzlaf in the Vegas zone and passed it ahead to Theodore, who skated into the right circle before scoring on a wrist shot from the dot.
"Normally I would like to pass it to other guys who I feel like are better at scoring goals," Theodore said. "I feel like sometimes you have to take what they give. You know, I just tried to shoot it to a spot where they couldn't get it."

Henrique scored both goals from in close on rebounds with Gibson off the ice for an extra skater to tie the score 5-5. He made it 5-4 at 17:03 of the third period and tied it 5-5 with 1:15 left.
"You have to get to that area to score some goals," Henrique said. "We did a better job. They do a good job around the net. They're a deep team, but I thought we did a good job there."
Vegas had to kill a power play for the final 47 seconds of the third period and the first 1:13 of overtime.
Karlsson scored two in a row earlier in the third to give the Golden Knights a 5-3 lead.
Four seconds after a Vegas power play ended, Karlsson made it 4-3 with a wrist shot at 6:28.
He completed the hat trick with his 13th goal of the season on a backhand in front of the net to make it 5-3 at 11:05, 18 seconds after an Anaheim power play ended.
"We could've made a choice when it went to 5-3," Ducks coach Dallas Eakins said. "We could've chosen to get through it and start thinking about our next game, or we could choose to dig in and fight on. Good on the group for making the right choice."

Ritchie scored his second goal from in front of the net off a feed from Troy Terry to tie the score 3-3 21 seconds into the third period.
Stone assisted on back-to-back second-period goals by Alec Martinez at 15:51 and Karlsson at 19:03 to erase Anaheim's only lead and move Vegas ahead 3-2.
Patrick Brown, recalled from Chicago of the American Hockey League on Sunday, scored off a rebound in his Vegas debut for a 1-0 lead at 12:49 of the first period. It was his first goal since March 31, 2016 with the Carolina Hurricanes against the New York Rangers.
Devin Shore tied it 1-1 when he tipped in a point shot at 19:58.
Anaheim moved ahead 2-1 at 10:03 of the second period when Ritchie scored off a turnover in front of the net.

They said it

"We need [Karlsson] to get a little bit hot here. He works so hard and he gets so many chances, it was nice to see him get on the board. Hopefully that opens the floodgates." -- Golden Knights coach Peter DeBoer
"We're not really a team that plays a shootout style, but it turned into that tonight. We weren't on the right side of it, but it was still a good comeback in the third." -- Ducks forward Nick Ritchie

Need to know

Anaheim selected Karlsson in the second round (No. 53) in the 2011 NHL Draft, and Theodore with the No. 26 pick in 2013. ... Karlsson scored on all three of his shots on goal. ... Martinez, who played in his 600th NHL game, has two goals and two assists in three games since he was traded from the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday. He had one goal in 41 games with the Kings this season. ... Vegas forward Gage Quinney, who made his NHL debut in a 5-3 win against the Florida Panthers on Saturday, assisted on Brown's goal for his first NHL point. Brown and Quinney were reassigned to Chicago after the game. ... Golden Knights forward Max Pacioretty had two assists to extend his point streak to four games (three goals, three assists). ... The four points for Henrique and Ritchie were each NHL career highs. They were each plus-4, which was an NHL career high for Ritchie. Henrique has 10 points (six goals, four assists) in the past eight games.

What's next

Golden Knights: Host the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday (10:30 p.m. ET; ATTSN-RM, SNW, NHL.TV)
Ducks:Host the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday (10 p.m. ET; PRIME, SNW, NHL.TV)