James Neal prides himself on scoring big goals.He delivered again on Thursday night

SAN JOSE Adidas Dennis Cholowski Jersey , Calif. (AP) James Neal prides himself on scoring big goals.He delivered again on Thursday night.Neal and Jonathan Marchessault scored in a 3 1/2-minute span in the third period, helping the Vegas Golden Knights to a 5-3 victory over the San Jose Sharks.Brayden McNabb, William Karlsson and Erik Haula also scored for the Golden Knights, who closed out a 4-2 road trip. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 35 shots.Neal scored his 24th goal of the season at 15:10 to put the Golden Knights ahead to stay. It was his 16th goal in the third period or later.”When it gets down to the third period, I take pride in giving my team a chance to win,” he said. ”It’s a time I try to turn it up as much as I can.”Joe Pavelski scored twice for the Sharks, who lost their second straight. Timo Meier also scored, and Martin Jones made 28 saves.”It was a tough game, a tale of a bunch of different games,” Sharks coach Peter DeBoer said. ”I loved our first period but we came out with nothing to show for it. You play like that, you should come out in front. We didn’t and that hurt.”Fleury kept Vegas in it by stopping 15 shots in the opening period. The Golden Knights were held to four shots Adidas Wade Megan Jersey , and none in the first 13:50.”We came out sleeping tonight,” Vegas coach Gerard Gallant said. ”They dominated that first period. Coming out of that 1-1 was a big break for us.”Pavelski put San Jose in front 4:40 into the game. He redirected a hard shot from Brent Burns into the net.Haula tied it with six minutes left in the first, slapping a rebound past Jones. It was Haula’s sixth goal in eight games and No. 21 on the season.Karlsson scored 37 seconds into the second period after a Sharks clearing pass hit Logan Couture, resulting in a turnover.Jones nearly made a spectacular save, getting his glove on the puck. He wasn’t able to hang onto it as he lost his balance, giving Karlsson an easy tip-in.Meier tied it again midway through the second after knocking in a puck that bounced off Fleury’s shoulder pads from a Burns shot.”We played in their zone a lot,” Meier said. ”We just didn’t play our game for 60 minutes. They’re good off the rush and they take advantage of what you give them. We gave them too much. It hurts to lose a game like that.”Pavelski gave the Sharks a 3-2 advantage midway through the third, but McNabb evened things two minutes later. That set up Neal’s winning goal off a nice pass from David Perron.”I managed to get the puck and heard Perry calling for it behind me,” Neal said. ”I dropped it off and he made a great play to get it back to me and give me a chance to get a good shot off. I just tried to get it off quick.”Marchessault added an empty-net goal with 81 seconds remaining.NOTES: The Sharks recalled D Tim Heed from the minors before the game. … Jones appeared in his 200th NHL game. … Perron played in his 700th game. … Pavelski recorded his first multigoal game of the season. … Burns matched his season high with three assists.UP NEXTGolden Knights: Return home to host the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday.Sharks: Host the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday. WINNIPEG, Manitoba — If there was a trophy for most assists in a season, Blake Wheeler would be one of the early favorites to hoist it at the end of the season. The Winnipeg Jets captain had a five-point night in a 5-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Friday at Bell MTS Place Adidas Evgeny Svechnikov Jersey , setting up the first four goals and scoring the last into an empty net.That performance gave Wheeler 18 assists in 15 games, the second-highest assist total in the league behind Colorado’s Mikko Rantanen, who had 19. Wheeler led the NHL in assists last season with 68 and has more than any other player since the start of the 2015-16 season.Article continues below ...Wheeler hopes to continue his leading ways when the Jets host the New Jersey Devils on Sunday night. The Devils come to town on the heels of a 6-1 shellacking from the Toronto Maple Leafs on Friday and have lost five of their last six, being outscored 29-15 in the process. Winnipeg is the last stop on a season-high seven-game road trip.At the same time as Wheeler is catching fire, sniper Patrik Laine appears to have regained his scoring touch for the Jets. He notched his fifth goal in three games on Friday to take the team lead with eight. He has just three goals in his first 12 games.Defenseman Josh Morrissey, who had one assist against Colorado, had an idea Wheeler was ready for a big night after sharing a ride to the rink with him. “You could tell he was ready to go. He’s a big guy that has so much skill and competes so hard,” he said. “Blake took it to another level. He’s a guy that drives our bus every single day in practice, in the gym and basically in every aspect of being a professional hockey player. He’s the guy that we follow.”The Devils will need better goaltending if they want to compete with the Jets. Goalie Keith Kincaid stopped a number of excellent scoring opportunities by the Leafs but gave up one floater to Morgan Rielly while being screened by three of his teammates.In the previous game, a 7-3 loss against the Ottawa Senators, veteran Corey Schneider was pulled after giving up four goals on 22 shots.“We’ll be fine in the end Adidas Jonathan Bernier Jersey ,” Kincaid said. “This will just make us stronger. We have to build as a team. It’s not going to be easy. Everybody has to be together and work hard.”Coach John Hynes was particularly frustrated with his team’s breakout against the Leafs.“We have to play better. On four out of the six goals, we had the puck on our tape coming out of the zone, so our puck execution needs to be better. We’ll have to do that better against Winnipeg,” he said.The Rocket Richard Trophy, named in honor of the Montreal Canadiens legend who led the league in goal scoring five times in the 1940s and 1950s, has been awarded since 1999 to the league’s top goal scorer.The player with the most total points is given the Art Ross Trophy, named in honor of a former player and executive. A trophy to the top playmaker could be named after Wayne Gretzky, who retired in 1999 with 1,963 assists. He has more assists than any other player has total points.