Golden Knights end homestand with comeback win over Blue Jackets

Mattias Janmark scored connected a rebound with 6:07 remaining, and the Golden Knights rallied for a 3-2 triumph implicit the Columbus Blue Jackets connected Saturday successful beforehand of an announced assemblage of 18,313 astatine T-Mobile Arena.

The Knights finished the homestand 5-1 and volition statesman a two-game roadworthy travel starting Monday astatine St. Louis.

Reilly Smith tied the crippled 2-2 with an unassisted short-handed extremity astatine 4:45 of the 3rd period.

Keegan Kolesar scored his archetypal extremity of the play successful the 2nd play to chopped Columbus’ pb successful half. It was the Knights’ archetypal extremity against Columbus since Nov. 5, 2019, erstwhile Reilly Smith scored the 2nd of his 2 goals successful the 2nd play of a 2-1 win.

Gustav Nyquist deflected a changeable past Knights goalie Laurent Brossoit 45 seconds into the archetypal period, and Alexandre Texier added a short-handed extremity midway done the archetypal for the Blue Jackets earlier the Knights scored 3 straight.

Knights guardant Ben Jones made his NHL debut, and Janmark was successful the lineup aft helium was a game-time decision. Defenseman Shea Theodore was scratched for the 2nd consecutive game, and Max Pacioretty was not successful the lineup aft helium participated successful the greeting skate.

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