LOS ANGELES (AP) James Neal has been scoring big goals in pressure-packed playoff hockey games since way before the Vegas Golden Knights were even a gleam in owner Bill Foley’s eye.When this most remarkable expansion team needed a third-period goal to accomplish another incredible feat Colorado Avalanche T-Shirts Authentic , their dependable veteran forward skated in on Jonathan Quick and got it with a flick of his wrist.Neal scored the tiebreaking goal with 5:37 to play, and the Golden Knights rallied from a late deficit to move to the brink of their first playoff series victory with a 3-2 win over the Los Angeles Kings on Sunday night.Cody Eakin tied it with 13:50 left, and William Karlsson scored the eventual game-winner 21 seconds after Neal’s goal in a third-period flurry for the Golden Knights, whose storybook debut season just keeps getting more exciting and more outlandish.”Emotions were running high, and it’s physical out there,” Neal said in a voice that confirms he has seen this scenario before, even if his team hasn’t. ”It’s tough. But a lot of guys on our team have been in those situations before and won in them before.”Vegas has a 3-0 series lead and will go for a sweep in Game 4 on Tuesday night in Los Angeles.After opening their first postseason series with two home wins in front of their frenzied home crowd, the hockey upstarts from the desert coolly won their first road playoff game in front of an angry sellout crowd at Staples Center, where two recent Stanley Cup banners hang above the ice.It’s nothing that scares Neal, who had 80 games of playoff experience with Pittsburgh and Nashville before joining Vegas in the expansion draft. With a second straight overtime game looking likely, Neal took a pass from Nate Schmidt, coolly skated around Kings defenseman Oscar Fantenberg and put a shot between Quick’s legs.Marc-Andre Fleury made 37 saves for the Golden Knights Colorado Avalanche Hoodies Authentic , who became the first team to take a 3-0 series lead in this postseason.Quick stopped 23 shots, but the Golden Knights’ three-goal flurry doubled their goal total against the former Conn Smythe Trophy winner from the first 201 minutes of play in this series.The Knights make the improbable look easy, but only because of a balanced, hard-working lineup.”We finally pushed them back far enough to where our guys could make plays,” Schmidt said. ”That’s what happened in Vegas, and we did it here. We finally pushed them back to where our forwards could do some things.”Captain Anze Kopitar had a late goal and an assist, while Alex Iafallo scored his first career playoff goal in the first period. The Kings still haven’t won a playoff game at Staples Center since they last raised the Stanley Cup in June 2014.”I thought we made a good push here tonight, created a lot more zone time and made Fleury work a little harder than he had to this point in the series,” Los Angeles coach John Stevens said. ”But (we) had some critical errors at critical times along the wall (that) ended up costing us.”Vegas’ offensive burst broke open a third straight game of tense, defense-dominated playoff hockey between a franchise that won two Cups with that attitude and another that didn’t exist a year ago.The Kings were reeling from Neal’s goal when Karlsson converted Reilly Smith’s pass from the corner with a one-timer. Vegas needed it: Kopitar added a tipped goal with 2:04 to play, but the Kings couldn’t get the equalizer.While the Kings are down, they know they’re not out: They rallied from an 0-3 series deficit in the first round in 2014 against San Jose.”Oh yeah Colorado Avalanche Hats Authentic , we trust in ourselves, and it’s been done before,” said Iafallo, whose goal gave Los Angeles its first lead of the series. ”We look at each other, look across the room, and we trust each other. We can definitely do it.”Drew Doughty played more than 27 1/2 minutes in the star defenseman’s return to the Kings’ blue line following a one-game suspension for hitting William Carrier in the series opener. Doughty also had partner Jake Muzzin back by his side after he missed the previous seven games with an upper-body injury.Neither team got much offensive traction in the first two periods, but the physical tone of the series stuck. Erik Haula butt-ended Kopitar in the face after a cross-check, but went unpenalized.”We get a guy (Doughty) suspended for making a hockey play,” Stevens said. ”(Haula) butt-ends one of the best players in the world in the face with the butt-end of his stick, so if I was confused before, I’m bewildered now. That’s an intent-to-injure play.”But the Knights kept pressing and tied it after a prolonged sequence of dominance in which Colin Miller’s shot hit the post before Eakin buried Ryan Carpenter’s cross-ice pass.NOTES: Forward Tomas Tatar was a healthy scratch for the Golden Knights. The Slovak scorer had played in all 22 games since Vegas acquired him from Detroit, but has just two points in the last 10. … Kopitar’s 21st career playoff goal moved him past Marcel Dionne for sixth in franchise playoff goals. The captain is third in team history with 45 assists. … Margot Robbie Custom Colorado Avalanche Jerseys , David Beckham and injured Dodgers slugger Justin Turner attended the game.— DETROIT (AP) — Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Edward Pasquale gave up five goals in his NHL debut — and still won the game.Nikita Kucherov and defenseman Victor Hedman scored in a shootout to give the Lightning a 6-5 comeback victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday night.“I didn’t think I’d give up five goals and get the win, but this team has so much scoring power you’ve just got to fight through,” said Pasquale, who made 19 saves in regulation and overtime.According to Lightning coach Jon Cooper, Pasquale said: “Only in Tampa can you give up five and still get the win” as he came off the ice.Pasquale stopped Frans Nielsen, the NHL’s career leader in shootout goals, and Thomas Vanek in the tiebreaker.“He had some pretty good shooters coming at him, Nielsen and Vanek. He stops them both,” Cooper said. “He gave us a chance to pull it out and that’s what we did.”Tampa Bay, which has won seven of eight, erased a 5-3 deficit in the third period and overcame Nielsen’s hat trick to defeat the Red Wings for the 13th consecutive time in the regular season.Mathieu Joseph had two goals and an assist for Tampa Bay. Steven Stamkos, J.T. Miller and Cedric Paquette also scored. Ryan Callahan added two assists.Despite the shootout goal www.officialbluejackets.com , Kucherov’s 10-game point streak came to an end.Nielsen scored three times for his second career hat trick. Gustav Nyquist scored twice, plus a shootout goal. Andreas Athanasiou and Dylan Larkin had two assists apiece, and Jimmy Howard made 30 saves for Detroit.Tampa Bay was playing the second of back-to-back games after beating New Jersey 5-1 on the road Monday night.Paquette’s short-handed goal with 5:02 left in regulation tied it at 5. It was his seventh goal.Miller pulled the Lightning to 5-4 at 9:50 of the third period with his sixth goal.The Red Wings led 4-3 after two and Nyquist’s second goal of the game, 4:06 into the third, made it 5-3. It was Nyquist’s sixth goal.Nielsen completed his hat trick with 3:34 left in the second to break a 3-all tie with his fourth goal.Joseph scored twice in the second to give him eight goals this season, and Stamkos got his 10th.Nielsen scored his second of the game 6:27 into the middle period.Detroit took a 2-0 lead with goals 21 seconds apart in the first. Nyquist opened the scoring with 3:06 left, and Nielsen scored with 2:45 remaining in the period.Red Wings defenseman Danny DeKeyser left after the second period with an upper-body injury and coach Jeff Blashill said he expects DeKeyser to be out “multiple weeks.”NOTES: Tampa Bay was without G Andrei Vasilevskiy (broken left foot) and D Anton Stralman (upper body). … Detroit RW Anthony Mantha missed his first game after breaking his right hand Sunday against Colorado. He had surgery Tuesday afternoon and is expected to miss four to six weeks. … Red Wings forward Tyler Bertuzzi served the first game of his two-game suspension for unsportsmanlike conduct and roughing against the Avalanche on Sunday.UP NEXTLightning: Host the Boston Bruins on Thursday.Red Wings: Visit the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday.