Golden Knights can't hold off league-leading Avalanche, fall in shootout

Danny Webster, Las Vegas Review-Journal on Dec 28, 2025

Published in Hockey

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LAS VEGAS — The Vegas Golden Knights earned a point against the NHL’s best team, but lost 6-5 to the Colorado Avalanche in a shootout at T-Mobile Arena on Saturday night.

Nathan MacKinnon scored the winning goal in the fourth round of the shootout.

Alexander Holtz, who had a goal and an assist for his first multipoint game as a member of the Knights (17-8-11), missed the last shootout attempt to keep the game alive.

The Avalanche (28-2-7) have only lost in regulation twice this season.

Colton Sissons broke a 4-4 tie with four minutes remaining when he received a pass from Keegan Kolesar, drove to the inside and finished with the backhand.

Colorado’s Artturi Lehkonen tied it 5-5 with 1:57 remaining with goalie Scott Wedgewood pulled for the extra attacker.

Knights goaltender Carter Hart finished with 34 saves.

Ben Hutton and Brett Howden scored twice in 29 seconds in the second period to give the Knights a 4-2 lead heading into the third.

But Colorado dominated the third period, outshooting the Knights 17-6, and got goals from Martin Necas and MacKinnon in the first half of the third to tie it 4-4.

Wedgewood, the league’s leader in goals-against average, allowed a season-high five goals.