{"id":340404,"date":"2026-05-25T14:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=340404"},"modified":"2026-05-25T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:38:11","slug":"tomas-hertl-gets-real-on-3-goal-comeback-in-game-3-vs-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/tomas-hertl-gets-real-on-3-goal-comeback-in-game-3-vs-avalanche\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomas Hertl gets real on 3-goal comeback in Game 3 vs Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Due to their incredible comeback in Game 3 of the Western Conference Final against the Colorado Avalanche, the Vegas Golden Knights lead the series three games to none, and may punch their ticket to the Stanley Cup Final for the primary time since 2023 in the event that they pull off the sweep later within the week.<\/p>\n

And it was Vegas forward Tomas Hertl who scored the go-ahead goal within the third period that ultimately stood up because the game-winner, deking around an Avalanche defenseman after which beating goaltender Scott Wedgewood with a wonderfully placed backhand shot, sending the sellout crowd at T-Mobile Arena right into a frenzy.<\/p>\n

Afterward, Hertl said that the club believed in themselves, knowing that they might pull off<\/a> the miraculous comeback.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn’t a fantastic first period for us, however it was that sort of season, we knew we could do it,\u201d Hertl said to ESPN’s Emily Kaplan via X. \u201cWe have come back so over and over, and this team is the perfect team. We just never quit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Avalanche appeared to have things well on top of things, scoring three goals within the opening 20 minutes of play after having been bolstered by the return of defenseman Cale Makar. Nevertheless, the Golden Knights got the comeback began within the early goings of the second period due to a goal from Mark Stone, who returned to the lineup himself. Goals from William Karlsson and Keegan Kolesar tied the sport, followed by Hertl’s third period go-ahead goal.<\/p>\n

Brett Howden sealed the win with an empty net goal late in regulation. Game 4 between the Golden Knights and the Avalanche is on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Due to their incredible comeback in Game 3 of the Western Conference Final against the Colorado Avalanche, the Vegas Golden Knights lead the series three games to none, and may punch their ticket to the Stanley Cup Final for the primary time since 2023 in the event that they pull off the sweep later within the week.<\/p>\n

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Due to their incredible comeback in Game 3 of the Western Conference Final against the Colorado Avalanche, the Vegas Golden Knights lead the series three games to none, and may punch their ticket to the Stanley Cup Final for the primary time since 2023 in the event that they pull off the sweep later within […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[52118,9012,1911,585,52117,1800,16583],"class_list":["post-340404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-3goal","tag-avalanche","tag-comeback","tag-game","tag-hertl","tag-real","tag-tomas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340407,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340404\/revisions\/340407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}