Tomas Hertl scores twice as Golden Knights beat Sabres 4-1 for third straight win

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Tomas Hertl scored two goals and the Vegas Golden Knights won their third straight game, 4-1 over the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday.

Tomas Hertl scores twice as Golden Knights beat Sabres 4-1 for third straight win

Golden Knights Fall to Ducks 4-3

Vegas Golden Knights halfway Tomas Hertl (48) celebrates aft scoring against the Anaheim Ducks during the 3rd play of an NHL hockey crippled astatine T-Mobile Arena Friday, Oct. 2, 2026. Photo by: Steve Marcus / Las Vegas Sun

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Tomas Hertl scored 2 goals and the Vegas Golden Knights won their 3rd consecutive game, 4-1 implicit the Buffalo Sabres connected Sunday.

Hertl scored some of his goals successful the 3rd play to assistance enactment the crippled distant for the Golden Knights, who finished their roadworthy travel 3-0-1.

Jack Eichel and Mitch Marner besides scored for Vegas portion Adin Hill made 27 saves.

Beck Malenstyn scored and Colten Ellis made 21 saves for Buffalo, which has mislaid 2 of its past 3 games.

Marner opened the scoring with a short-handed extremity astatine 12:17 of the 2nd play pursuing a turnover by Tage Thompson.

Eichel, who was the Sabres first-round draught prime successful 2015 and traded to Vegas successful 2021, made it 2-0 1 infinitesimal and 26 seconds aboriginal with his eighth extremity of the season. He has 7 goals and 3 assists successful 8 games against Buffalo successful his career.

Malenstyn chopped the Vegas pb to 2-1 with his archetypal extremity connected a goalmouth scrum astatine 4:26 of the 3rd period, but Hertl made it 3-1 conscionable 1:17 later.

Hertl’s 2nd of the crippled and ninth of the play made it 4-1 astatine 10:00.

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