Golden Knights make more history with double-overtime win against Kings

The Vegas Golden Knights made more NHL history on Friday when they defeated the Los Angeles Kings 2-1 in double overtime at T-Mobile Arena to win Game 2 of the Western Conference First Round.
Eric Haula's goal at 15:23 of the second overtime made the Golden Knights the third team in NHL history to win a multiple-overtime playoff game in its first NHL season, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The others came in 1968: the St. Louis Blues did it in Game 3 of the NHL Quarterfinals against the Philadelphia Flyers (Larry Keenan) and in Game 7 of the semifinal series against the Minnesota North Stars (Ron Schock). The Flyers did it against the Blues in Game 6 of their quarterfinal series (Don Blackburn).

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The Golden Knights, who set regular-season records for wins, home wins, road wins and points by a team in its first NHL season, also became the fifth team in League history to win each of its first two playoff games and the second to do so in its inaugural season.
Before Vegas, the only first-year team to start 2-0 in the playoffs was the 1968 Kings, who ended up losing to the North Stars in seven games. In 1970, the Pittsburgh Penguins, who had failed to qualify for the playoffs in each of their first two seasons, swept the Oakland Seals in their first playoff series. The Florida Panthers, in their third season, won their first three playoff games in 1996 on the way to a 4-1 series win against the Boston Bruins. One year later, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, who entered the NHL with Florida in 1993-94, took a 2-0 lead against the Phoenix Coyotes in their first playoff series and went on to win in seven games.

The first overtime game in the history of the Golden Knights was the longest in the history of the Kings; it was 40 seconds longer than their championship-clinching win against the New York Rangers in Game 5 of the 2014 Stanley Cup Final. Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick set a team playoff record with 54 saves, and defenseman Alec Martinez's 44:51 of ice time surpassed Drew Doughty's 44:41 in Game 2 of the 2014 Final for the most in a playoff game since the Kings entered the NHL in 1967.
The Golden Knights and Winnipeg Jets (4-1 against the Minnesota Wild) each won Friday to take a 2-0 lead in their playoff series. Elias notes that teams that win the first two games of a best-of-7 series have an all-time record of 312-49 (.866 winning percentage); teams that take a 2-0 lead by winning the first two games at home are 236-30 (.887).