"That's what you do in Vegas, right? Take a chance, play the odds, put the puck on net and it went in," Pageau said of his goal, taking Mitch Marner one-on-one before snapping it top shelf. "We got the two points, we have a game tomorrow and we want to play the same way."
"You're on the penalty kill and you think you're in trouble, but [Pageau] scores a massive goal for us," Barzal said. "What a goal by him - he's one of the best penalty killers in the league, both offensively and defensively."
Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored a short-handed goal 3:02 into overtime to lift the New York Islanders to a 4-3 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights. Matthew Schaefer had a goal and an assist, while Mathew Barzal and Emil Heineman also scored. Bo Horvat and Jonathan Drouin each recorded two assists, and Ilya Sorokin made 26 saves. The Islanders improved to 9-3-2 in their last 14 games and sit atop the Eastern Conference wild-card spot with 20 points. Vegas erased a 2-0 deficit on goals by Shea Theodore, Tomas Hertl and Reilly Smith, and Akira Schmid stopped 20 shots. Barzal tied the game with 2:37 remaining; in overtime Sorokin denied Jack Eichel before Pageau won the puck and fired a long-range winner past Schmid.
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