LAS VEGAS -- The Vegas Golden Knights extended their losing streak to four games on Monday, when they lost a 5-4 shootout to the St. Louis Blues at T-Mobile Arena.
Pavel Dorofeyev and Jack Eich each had a goal and an assist for the Golden Knights (29-13-4). Shea Theodore had four assists, while Tomas Hertl and Brett Howden also scored. Adin Hill made 24 saves.
“Nobody's panicking, I'll say that. We're not in the room tearing the walls down,” Golden Knights coach Bruce Cassidy said. “It's my job to drag it into the fight certain parts of the year, right? Like right now, it's a little bit of the dog [days of] January. … This is a month we've got to push through. We've built ourselves a cushion, so psychologically, maybe that is also going on, where some of these teams now are playing catch-up. Their urgency level is higher than ours right now.”
How The Goal Were Scored
Brayden Schenn gave the Blues a 1-0 lead at 8:25 of the first period with a wrist shot above the left circle.
Hertl tied the game on the power-play, collecting a Dorofeyev rebound and stuffing it past St. Louis goalie Jordan Binnington.
Nathan Walker reclaimed the 2-1 lead for St. Louis at 19:43 , finishing a rebound from below the left circle.
Jake Neighbours extended the lead to 3-1 at 6:31 of the second period with a wrist shot above Hill’s right shoulder.
Howden cut it to 3-2 at 7:25 with a shot off a Theodore rebound.
Cam Fowler gave the Blues a 4-2 lead on the power play with a slap shot.
Eichel put Vegas within one with a one-timer from the left circle with Hill off the ice. Dorofeyev rounded out the scoring with a one-timer of his own from the right circle with the extra attacker on.
“It was good resiliency, good push to get us a point at least,” Howden said. “Obviously, there's things that we want to clean up to play a better game. We don't want to be giving up four goals a night, that's for sure. I mean, you can say it's a bit of a step in getting the confidence up [to come back late].”
How The Shootout Went
Neighbours and Schenn scored for St. Louis in the shootout, while Eichel scored the lone goal for the Golden Knights.
Up Next
Vegas will play St. Louis again on Thursday in St. Louis before traveling to Dallas on Friday.