Mammoth Golden Knights Hockey

Mark Stone had an early assist to move within two points of breaking Vegas’ career scoring record, Ivan Barbashev scored twice in the second period and the Golden Knights beat the Utah Mammoth 5-3 on Wednesday night. Stone helped set up Jack Eichel’s power-play goal at 2:15 of the first period to push his Vegas total to 416 points, one off Jonathan Marchessault’s mark. Carter Hart made 14 saves to help Vegas open a five-game homestand with its fourth straight victory. Victor Olofsson made it 2-1 on a power play at 3:07 of the second, then set up Barbashev’s goals at 4:51 and 8:16. After Dmitri Simashev pulled Utah to 4-3 at 9:07 of the third, Brett Howden countered for Vegas 1:12 later.