Ilya Samsonov made 23 saves to secure his fifth straight win, and Pavel Dorofeyev scored the game-winner during a three-goal second period, as the Vegas Golden Knights came back to defeat the Philadelphia Flyers 5-2 on Thursday in Las Vegas.
Mark Stone contributed a goal and an assist, while Nicolas Hague, Alexander Holtz, and Tanner Pearson also scored. Jack Eichel and Noah Hanifin each had two assists for Vegas, which improved to 5-0-1 in its last six matchups with the Flyers.
Samsonov improved to 13-2-0 against Philadelphia.
Tyson Foerster and Travis Konecny scored for the Flyers, and Aleksei Kolosov made 22 saves.
Philadelphia took the lead 1-0 just 21 seconds into the game when Foerster scored off a rebound from Noah Cates’ shot for his fifth goal in the last seven games.
Vegas, which had only four shots on goal in the first period, responded in the second with three goals on their first two shots.
Stone tied the game at 51 seconds, redirecting Eichel’s backhand pass into the crease past Kolosov. Hague then gave the Golden Knights a 2-1 lead at 2:13, driving around the net and scoring with a wraparound shot.
Dorofeyev extended the lead to 3-1 at 18:22 with a powerful shot through traffic from the right faceoff circle.
Holtz made it 4-1 at 2:46 of the third with a shot that deflected off defenseman Jamie Drysdale’s leg and sailed past Kolosov’s glove.
The Flyers cut the deficit to 4-2 with Konecny’s power-play goal at 4:56, his career-high eighth of the season.
Philadelphia pulled Kolosov for an extra attacker with 2:20 left, but Pearson sealed the victory with an empty-net goal at 19:24.
