Jean-Gabriel Pageau Scores Overtime Winner as Islanders Defeat Golden Knights

Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored a short-handed goal at 3:02 of overtime to lift the New York Islanders to a 4-3 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday. This loss marked the Golden Knights' fourth consecutive defeat, concluding their homestand with a 1-3-2 record. Vegas has now fallen into a 2-4-3 skid since October 25th, after starting the season 5-0-2. Shea Theodore, Thomas Hertl, and Reilly Smith scored for Vegas, while Akira Schmid made 20 saves. The Golden Knights struggled on the power play, going 0 for 5, and are now 3 for 34 with an extra skater in their last 10 games, coinciding with Mark Stone's injury. Rookie Braeden Bowman made his NHL debut, landing four shots over 16:45 of ice time and skating on the second line with Tomas Hertl and Pavel Dorofeyev, and also saw time on the first power-play unit.