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The Vegas Golden Knights made another trade deadline splash to take another run at the Stanley Cup in their second season.Vegas acquired high-scoring winger Mark Stone from the Ottawa Senators on Monday for defense prospect Erik Brannstrom John Tavares Jersey , forward Oscar Lindberg and the Dallas Stars‘ 2020 second-round pick. Vegas also received minor league forward Tobias Lindberg in the trade.Stone is a top-line talent the Golden Knights hope can help them make another deep playoff run as they did last year in getting to the Cup Final.“He plays a complete game, plays every situation, and he’s going to really help our hockey club,” coach Gerard Gallant said. “He was the top guy on the board and we went out and got him, so it shows our players what we want to do and get things on track here and get going again.”Losing 10 of their past 13 games hurt the Golden Knights in a top-heavy Pacific Division, but Stone should provide an immediate boost. The 26-year-old has 28 goals and 34 assists for 62 points in 59 games this season, two points shy of his career high.Stone is in the midst of his fifth consecutive 20-goal and 50-point season.“He’s been great for a lot of years now, it feels like,” Vegas center William Karlsson said. “Huge addition for our roster. The guy can pass Authentic Jordan Eberle Jersey , the guy can score, so he’s kind of the full package.”Stone said on Canadian television he agreed to but hadn’t yet signed a long-term contract extension, which general manager George McPhee said just needed to get a few things buttoned up. But the trade was contingent on getting an extension done.“We would not have done a rental,” McPhee said. “Too much risk in that.”Vegas needed to improve its roster given all the other moves made by Western Conference contenders at the NHL’s trade deadline . The Jets acquired center Kevin Hayes from the Rangers, defenseman Nathan Beaulieu from the Sabres and depth forward Matt Hendricks from the Wild, while the Predators acquired winger Wayne Simmonds from the Flyers and Mikael Granlund from the Wild.After trading a first-, a second- and a third-round pick at the 2018 deadline for winger Tomas Tatar, McPhee again anted up for a playoff push. Owner Bill Foley wanted his franchise to win a title within the first five years, and this is another move to help that effort in the short and long term.“They want to be an aggressive ownership group and make us the best team possible: trade deadline last year Josh Bailey Jersey , offseason this summer and now the deadline today,” winger Reilly Smith said. “They’re always trying to pretty much take the biggest names off the board. Hopefully it helps us.”All it cost Vegas off its NHL roster is Oscar Lindberg, a 27-year-old who has 12 points in 35 games this season. The team took him from the New York Rangers in the expansion draft, drafted Brannstrom in 2017 with the pick it received from the Islanders to take Mikhail Grabovski’s contract off their hands and got the second-rounder from Dallas for Marc Methot, whom they selected from the Senators in the expansion draft.The Golden Knights’ brass looks at its blueprint each day to stay on course with past, present and future goals.“It’s a good reminder to read it over and have everyone look at it and talk about where we’re trying to go and what we’re trying to accomplish,” McPhee said. “And this fit.”Ottawa GM Pierre Dorion called Brannstrom “the top defense prospect in the game” and a dynamic talent who will be a major part of his team’s future. That’s a future that won’t include Stone, who turned down offers to stay with the Senators long term.“We made every effort to sign Mark Stone, who was a fine player and great person for our organization Brady Skjei Jersey ,” Dorion said. “Mark will be missed.” UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — New York Islanders coach Barry Trotz believes his team’s success can be attributed to their simple and fundamentally sound play.Michael Dal Colle got the tiebreaking goal as the Islanders scored three times in less than five minutes late in the third period to rally for a 4-2 win over the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday night.Casey Cizikas, Mathew Barzal and Brock Nelson also scored to help New York stretch its point streak to eight games (6-0-2) and increase their lead atop the Metropolitan Division to four points over Washington and Pittsburgh.“If you don’t show up to work in this business you’re not going to have success,” Trotz said. “It’s still a workman’s league. You still have to put the work boots on.”Ryan Pulock had assists on each of the third-period goals and Robin Lehner stopped 34 shots.Dal Colle’s goal was the second of his career — with both coming this season and both standing as game-winners. Trotz likes how the fifth overall pick in the 2014 draft has meshed with and veteran linemates Leo Komarov and Valtteri Filppula.“That line is effective,” Trotz said. “You don’t look at the numbers. You look at the intangibles. … Those are the things analytics can’t describe but only a room can.”Anze Kopitar had a goal and an assist, Ilya Kovalchuk also scored and Dustin Brown had two assists for Los Angeles. Jonathan Quick finished with 28 saves.The Kings took a 2-1 lead with 6:45 left in the third as Brown’s shot from the slot deflected off Kovalchuk’s skate and through Lehner’s legs.However, Barzal tied it just 31 seconds later as he scored from the right side off a pass from Pulock for his 15th.Dal Colle then put the Islanders ahead when he deflected Pulock’s point shot past Quick with 2:23 left and Nelson’s empty-netter 52 seconds later sealed the win and ended the Islanders’ two-game skid (0-0-2).“We actually played (well) for 55 minutes. I think that was one of our better efforts, quite honestly,” Brown said. “We just kind of lost the intensity there for a few minutes and they found a way to get a go-ahead goal late. (It’s) something we just have to take positives from. (I) think we played really hard for the whole game http://www.officialblackhawksproshop.com/authentic-adidas-artem-anisimov-jersey , but those details are the difference between winning and losing.”The second — and final — meeting of the regular season between the Metropolitan Division leaders and the last place team in the Pacific had a playoff feel throughout. Even though Los Angeles outshot New York 36-32, most of the shots were from the outsides as both teams were conscientious of surrendering the slot and prime scoring areas.The Islanders started quickly, outshooting the Kings 8-1 in the first 6:24, capped off by Cizikas’ rebound goal, his 12th, at 6:09.The Kings tied it 1:58 later as Kopitar tapped a cross-ice feed from Alex Iafallo past Lehner for his 15th.Lehner and Quick then matched each other save-for-save until the final 7 minutes of the game.Lehner had three saves on Kovalchuk; first on a one-timer from the left circle on the power play, with a diving save late in the second, and finally gloving a slap shot during a Kings man advantage early in the third.“He played awesome, again Brandon Saad Jersey ,” Islanders defenseman Johnny Boychuk said. “He’s been playing awesome all year. Both our goaltenders and they’ll have to continue to do that to have success.”Quick made three sprawling saves on an Islanders power play in the first, and in the second he dove to stop Devon Toews‘ shot from the slot.The Kings’ goalie also benefited from his equipment as his mask stopped Cal Clutterbuck’s shot with 1:15 left in the second, and Carl Hagelin’s backcheck snuffed out an Islanders 2-on-1 midway through the third to keep the game deadlocked at 1-all.NOTES: New York swept the season series. The Islanders won the previous meeting 7-2 at Los Angeles on Oct. 18. … Prior to the game, the NHL announced Tampa Bay Lightning RW Nikita Kucherov was fined $5,000 for “a dangerous trip” against Islanders D Scott Mayfield in the first period of New York’s 1-0 shootout loss Friday night. … Los Angeles scratched C Nate Thompson, D Sean Walker and RW Matt Luff. … RW Tom Kuhnhackl, D Luca Sbisa and LW Ross Johnston sat out for New York. … The announced attendance was 13,917 — the Islanders’ fifth sellout in eight games at Nassau Coliseum.UP NEXTKings: At the New York Rangers on Monday night in the second of a season-high six-game trip.Islanders: At Boston on Tuesday night.