Anaheim Ducks vs Vegas Golden Knights Match Player Stats On Oct 28, 2022

Logan Thompson made 29 saves for his second shutout of the season to help lead the Pacific Division-leading Vegas Golden Knights to their third straight victory with a 4-0 win over the Anaheim Ducks on Friday afternoon in Las Vegas.

It was the third career shutout for Thompson, who improved to 4-2-0 on the season while also becoming the first goaltender in the NHL with two shutouts this season.

Reilly Smith and William Karlsson each had a goal and an assist, and Chandler Stephenson and Nicolas Roy also scored goals as Vegas improved to 21-4-0 all-time against Anaheim.

John Gibson stopped 14 of 18 shots for Anaheim, which dropped its seventh straight game since a season-opening 5-4 overtime victory over Seattle on Oct. 12. Gibson, pulled after the second period for Anthony Stolarz, fell to 3-15-5 all-time against Vegas. Stolarz finished with four saves on four shots.

Vegas took a 1-0 lead at the 15:12 mark of the first period on a power-play goal by Stephenson, who skated in alone from the right corner to the front of the net and beat Gibson five-hole for his fourth goal of the season.

The Golden Knights then broke the game open with three goals over a four-shot span in the second period. Smith started the barrage with a short-handed goal, one-timing a Karlsson pass from the right circle at the end of a 2-on-1 break for his second goal of the season and 100th goal as a member of Vegas.

Karlsson made it 3-0 with a waist-high deflection at the hash marks off a Jonathan Marchessault slap shot from the right point past Gibson's glove side for his fourth goal of the season.

Roy then increased the lead to 4-0 at the 18:47 mark of the period when he took a pass from Nicolas Hague at the blue line and broke past a pair of Anaheim defenders before firing a wrist shot past Gibson's glove side for his second goal of the season.

--Field Level Media