Roy's 2 goals in big 2nd period send Knights past Ducks 5-4

Published Mar. 5, 2022 12:53 a.m. ET

Associated Press

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Nicolas Roy ended his 15-game goal drought with his first career two-goal game in the regular season, and Michael Amadio had a goal and two assists in the Vegas Golden Knights’ 5-4 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Friday night.

Roy, Amadio and Jonathan Marchessault scored in a four-goal second period for the Knights, who then survived a strong third period from the Ducks to win for just the third time in nine games. Ben Hutton also scored and Laurent Brossoit made 20 saves.

Jakob Silfverberg, Nicolas Deslauriers and Trevor Zegras scored for the Ducks, whose mid-game defensive lapses doomed them to their seventh loss in 10 games.

Troy Terry scored his 28th goal early in the third period to trim Vegas' lead to one goal, but the Ducks couldn't close the gap. John Gibson stopped 30 shots for Anaheim, which couldn't recover from the Knights' second-period barrage.

Fourth-place Vegas moved five points ahead of fifth-place Anaheim in the Pacific Division standings with a game in hand thanks to this eventful victory at Honda Center.

Silfverberg put the Ducks up early in the first period with an impossibly sharp-angled shot from the goal line on the boards. Hutton tied it moments later with his first goal since Jan. 8 and his 100th NHL point.

Marchessault put the Knights up 18 seconds into the second period. He scored his third goal in four games on a one-timer from William Karlsson, the Ducks' draft pick traded to Columbus in 2015 in one of the worst moves of former general manager Bob Murray's tenure in Anaheim.

Deslauriers evened it 2:05 later with the tough forward's fifth goal of the season, but Roy converted an easy rebound off the boards 86 seconds later for the first goal since Jan. 17 for the top-line forward.

Roy and Amadio took advantage of defensive lapses by the Ducks to push Vegas' lead to 5-2 midway through the middle period. Zegras answered with a power-play goal late in the period off an exceptional pass from Rickard Rakell.

Roy scored two goals in a postseason game in 2021, but had no multi-goal performances in his first five NHL regular seasons.

Terry walked in for a power play goal early in the third to trim Vegas' lead to 5-4. The All-Star forward's 28 goals already are the most scored in a season by a Ducks player since Rakell got 34 four years ago.

UP NEXT

Golden Knights: Host Senators on Sunday.

Ducks: Host Sharks on Sunday.

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