Jack Eichel leads Knights to skid-ending win over Devils

Jack Eichel scored for the eighth time in the last nine games as the Vegas Golden Knights snapped a four-game losing streak with a 3-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Thursday in Newark, N.J.

Nicolas Roy and Shea Theodore and also scored goals for Vegas, which won for just fourth time in 15 games (4-8-3). Adin Hill finished with 14 saves for the Golden Knights.

Ondrej Palat scored a goal and Jake Allen made 37 saves for New Jersey, which was outshot 40-15 and managed just nine shots on goal over the first two periods. It was the third loss in five games for the Devils and seventh over the past 11 games (4-5-2).

Vegas, which failed to score and managed just two shots on a four-minute power play in the first period after Jack Hughes picked up a double minor for high-sticking Victor Olofsson, took a 1-0 lead at 3:06 of the second period. Roy put in a rebound of his own shot five-hole for his first goal in 16 games.

The Golden Knights made it 2-0 midway through the period when Theodore fired a wrist shot from inside the middle of the blue line through traffic and past Allen's blocker side.

Eichel extended the lead to 3-0 early in the third period when he tucked in a rebound of a Noah Hanifin shot through Allen's pads.

Palat cut the deficit to 3-1 with 4:17 remaining with a power-play goal, snapping in a shot from the right side of the net inside the near post past Hill's glove side.

The Devils pulled Allen for an extra attacker and appeared to score again with 52.5 seconds when Palat, in the low slot, deflected Dougie Hamilton's point shot into the net. However, the goal was taken off the board after a video review when it was determined Palat's stick was above the crossbar when he made the deflection.

--Field Level Media