Hertl's late goal seals win for Golden Knights against Bruins taken in Boston (Vegas Golden Knights)

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Feb 8, 2025; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; As Boston Bruins defenseman Mason Lohrei (6) and defenseman Charlie McAvoy (73) skate away, Vegas Golden Knights left wing Brandon Saad (20) and defenseman Brayden McNabb (3) celebrate with left wing Pavel Dorofeyev (16) after his goal tied the game during the third period at TD Garden.

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Hertl's late goal seals win for Golden Knights against Bruins

By Ryan Teasley

Feb 8, 2025 • 7:07 pm

BOSTON -- The Vegas Golden Knights won 4-3 against the Boston Bruins on Saturday to make it two wins in a row before the International Four Nations Tournament. The game did not start well as they gave up two goals in the First Period. The Bruins took a 1-0 lead with a Brad Marchand goal with an assist from Nikita Zadorov. That goal made it his 20th goal of the season.

Nikita Zadorov then would double the lead and the Golden Knights would go down 2-0 here as Nikita Zadorov would score his 50th career goal and would cause the Golden Knights to have to try and make a response with them down two goals early on.

Later in the first period, Mark Stone pulled one back to make it a 2-1 game with Shea Theodore assisting him to cut the deficit to one heading into the Second Period. Geekie would score for the Bruins to make it 3-1 and reestablish a two-goal lead to make it a 3-1 game Bruins.

Then, Zach Whitecloud would score to pull 1 back again for the Golden Knights with his 4th goal of the season. The goal was to be assisted by Noah Hanifin with Whitecloud's 4th goal this season.

Then heading into the Third period Pavel Dorofeyev would make it a 3-3 game 5 minutes into the 3rd period with Shea Theodore getting his 2nd point of the game to tie things up with a wrister goal.

Pavel Zacha would go to the box for a penalty for slashing which led to a Golden Knights power play and Tomas Hertl scored to give the Golden Knights their first and only lead of the game to make it a 4-3 lead for the Vegas Golden Knights.

Key Stats

Tomas Hertl's go-ahead goal was his 21st goal of the season.

Golden Knights only led for 70 seconds of the entire game but still went on to win despite only leading for that short amount of time.

The VGK had thirty-eight shots, while the Boston Bruins, had twenty-four.

Takeaways

The response from the Golden Knights was great to see, being able to come back from two goals down, when you never led at all until late on was something that I think is great because of the times they have gone down in previous games, and we haven't seen the response and now you go into this break off two wins on the road with a four nations break coming up and so it was good to see the fight and response from the Golden Knights in their game this Saturday afternoon.