Victor Olofsson breaks late tie in the Golden Knights' 3-2 victory over the Canucks

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Victor Olofsson broke a tie with 3:14 left off William Karlsson's nifty feed from behind the net and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 on Sunday night.

Vegas increased its Pacific Division lead over Los Angeles to five points, with the Golden Knights playing one more game than the Kings. Vancouver is eight points out of a playoff berth with four games to go.

Ivan Barbashev and Nicolas Roy also scored for the Golden Knights, and Adin Hill stopped 19 shots. Nils Hoglander and Aatu Raty replied for the Canucks, and Kevin Lankinen stopped 32 shots.

Both teams won Saturday, with Vegas edging Calgary 3-2 in overtime, and Vancouver beating Anaheim 6-2.

Hoglander opened the scoring for Vancouver at 4:46 of the first period. Barbashev tied it for Vegas at 8:36 and Roy gave the Golden Knights the lead with 6:45 left in the period.

Raty tied it at 8:03 of the second on a play that survived a replay challenge for goalie interference. The Canucks got a power play for Vegas' unsuccessful challenge, with Hill make a big save to keep it tied.

Golden Knights: Vegas’ top-ranked power play was held scoreless on two opportunities with the man advantage. Vegas has not scored on its last six power plays.

Canucks: Hoglander returned after missing six games with an undisclosed injury. The Swedish winger was quick to make an impact, opening the scoring with his seventh goal of the season. Hoglander replaced rookie Jonathan Lekkerimaki in the lineup.

Raty tied it a 2 in the second, collecting a rebound off Filip Hronek’s blast from inside the blue line and sending it in over a prone Hill for his sixth goal of the season. Vegas challenged for goaltender interference, arguing Raty made contact with Hill in the crease before the shot, but the goal stood after an extended video review.

Vegas outshot Vancouver 12-2 in the third period.

Both teams play Tuesday night. The Golden Knights end their three-game trip at Colorado. The Canucks are at Dallas.

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Vegas Golden Knights goalie Adin Hill (33) makes a save as Vancouver Canucks' Jake DeBrusk (74) watches during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vancouver Canucks' Conor Garland (8) fails to get his stick on the pass in front of Vegas Golden Knights goalie Adin Hill (33) during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vancouver Canucks' Jake DeBrusk (74) and Vegas Golden Knights' Alex Pietrangelo, right, vie for the puck after Golden Knights goalie Adin Hill (33) made a save during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vancouver Canucks' Quinn Hughes (43) skates with the puck away from Vegas Golden Knights' Tanner Pearson, back, during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vancouver Canucks' Filip Hronek (17) checks Vegas Golden Knights' Ivan Barbashev (49) as Canucks' Pius Suter (24) controls the puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vegas Golden Knights goalie Adin Hill (33) makes a save as Vancouver Canucks' Nils Hoglander (21) watches while Golden Knights' Zach Whitecloud (2) and Mark Stone (61) defend during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vancouver Canucks goalie Kevin Lankinen (32) stops Vegas Golden Knights' William Karlsson, back right, as Vancouver's Filip Hronek (17) and Dakota Joshua (81) defend during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vegas Golden Knights' Shea Theodore (27) vies for the puck against Vancouver Canucks' Linus Karlsson (94) as Drew O'Connor (18) watches during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vegas Golden Knights' Victor Olofsson (95) celebrates his goal against the Vancouver Canucks during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vegas Golden Knights goalie Adin Hill, left, and Brayden McNabb celebrate after Vegas defeated the Vancouver Canucks in an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

The U.S. Supreme Court will not delay Karen Read’s second murder trial on claims of double jeopardy, setting the stage for opening statements to be presented next week.

Read’s attorneys had filed an emergency appeal for a delay in the trial, contending that trying her again on second-degree murder and leaving the scene would be double jeopardy. But the high court's denial means the trial could start early next week, since all but one of the jurors have been chosen. Jury selection began last week. Lawyers are seeking to seat 16 jurors, with four serving as alternates.

Read, who lives in Mansfield, Massachusetts, is accused of striking her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV and leaving him to die in a snowstorm in 2022 outside a house party in nearby Canton. Her attorneys have said O’Keefe was actually killed by someone else, possibly another law enforcement agent who was at the party, and that she was framed.

Last year, the judge declared a mistrial after jurors said they were at an impasse and deliberating further would be futile.

After the trial, several jurors came forward to say the group was unanimous in finding Read not guilty of the most serious charge, second-degree murder, and a lesser charge. Despite attempts by Read’s lawyers to get those charges dismissed, she will face the same counts as she did at her first trial. They also failed to have the entire case tossed, arguing governmental misconduct.

Read, who worked as a financial analyst and as a Bentley College adjunct professor before she was charged, faces second-degree murder and other charges in the death of John O’Keefe, who was 46 when he died. The 16-year police veteran was found unresponsive outside the home of a fellow Boston police officer.

After a night out drinking, prosecutors say Read, who is 45, dropped off O’Keefe at the house party just after midnight. As she made a three-point turn, prosecutors say, she struck O’Keefe before driving away. She returned hours later to find him in a snowbank.

As they did at the first trial, prosecutors will try to convince jurors that Read’s actions were intentional. They are expected to call witnesses who will describe how the couple's relationship had begun to sour before O'Keefe's death. Among them will be his brother, who testified during the first trial that the couple regularly argued over such matters as what Read fed O’Keefe’s children, and that he witnessed a 2021 fight the couple had in Cape Cod over how his brother treated her. The brother's wife testified that Read told her the couple had argued in Aruba after she caught O’Keefe kissing another woman.

The defense is expected to portray the investigation into O’Keefe’s death as shoddy and undermined by the close relationship investigators had with the police officers and other law enforcement agents who were at the house party.

Among the key witnesses they will call is former State Trooper Michael Proctor, who led the investigation but has since been fired after a disciplinary board found he sent sexist and crude texts about Read to his family and colleagues. He is also on the prosecution's witness list.

A key moment in the first trial was Proctor’s testimony, in which the defense suggested his texts about Read and the case showed he was biased, and had singled her out early in the investigation and ignored other potential suspects.

They also are expected to suggest Read was framed, saying O’Keefe was actually killed inside the home during a fight with another partygoer and then dragged outside. In the first trial, defense attorneys suggested investigators focused on Read because she was a “convenient outsider” who saved them from having to consider law enforcement officers as suspects.

Ahead of the second trial, the two sides sparred over whether Read's lawyers will be allowed to argue that someone else killed O'Keefe. Judge Beverly Cannone ruled Monday that attorneys can't mention potential third-party culprits in their opening statements but will be allowed to develop evidence against Brian Albert, a retired police officer who owned the Canton home, and his friend Brian Higgins. Lawyers cannot implicate Albert's nephew, Colin Albert, the judge said.

A town-commissioned Canton Police Department audit following O'Keefe's death was released Sunday. While not reinvestigating any cases, its top suggestions regarding Read's were that first responders should have photographed O'Keefe where he was found before he was moved; that all interviews of “critical witnesses” should have been done at the department after O'Keefe was taken to a hospital; and that agreed-to recordings of witness interviews be conducted.

Soon after the mistrial, Read's lawyers set out to get the main charges dropped.

They argued Judge Cannone declared a mistrial without polling the jurors to confirm their conclusions. Defense attorney Martin Weinberg said five jurors indicated after the trial that they were only deadlocked on the manslaughter count and had unanimously agreed that she wasn’t guilty of second-degree murder and leaving the scene, but that they hadn’t told the judge.

The defense said that because jurors had agreed Read wasn't guilty of murder and leaving the scene, retrying her on those counts would amount to double jeopardy. But Cannone rejected that argument, as did the state's highest court, a federal court judge, and an appeals court.

Prosecutors had urged Cannone to dismiss the double jeopardy claim, saying it amounted to "hearsay, conjecture and legally inappropriate reliance as to the substance of jury deliberations.” Assistant District Attorney Adam Lally argued that the jurors never indicated they had reached a verdict on any of the charges, were given clear instructions on how to reach a verdict, and that the defense had ample opportunity to object to the mistrial declaration.

The second trial will likely look similar to the first. It will be held in the same courthouse before the same judge, and dozens of Read's passionate supporters are again expected to rally outside. The charges, primary defense lawyers and many of the nearly 200 witnesses will also be the same.

The biggest difference will be the lead prosecutor, Hank Brennan. A former prosecutor and defense attorney who was brought in as a special prosecutor after the mistrial, Brennan has represented several prominent clients, including notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, and experts think he might be more forceful than Lally was in arguing the case.

Supporters of Karen Read gather prior to jury selection for the trial of Karen Read outside Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Supporters of Karen Read gather prior to jury selection for the trial of Karen Read outside Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

A Massachusetts State Police officer talks with supporters of Karen Read, who gathered prior to jury selection for the trial of Karen Read, outside Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Supporters of Karen Read gather prior to jury selection for the trial of Karen Read outside Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Aidan Kearney, the blogger known as Turtleboy, walks towards court prior to jury selection for the trial of Karen Read outside Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Supporters of Karen Read gather prior to jury selection for the trial of Karen Read outside Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Prosecution attorney Adam Lally, right, arrives for jury selection for the trial of Karen Read at Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Prosecution attorney Hank Brennan arrives for jury selection for the trial of Karen Read at Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Karen Read arrives for jury selection for her trial at Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Karen Read arrives for jury selection for her trial at Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Karen Read arrives for jury selection for her trial at Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Karen Read arrives for jury selection for her trial at Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Supporters of Karen Read gather during jury selection for the trial of Read outside Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Karen Read arrives for jury selection for her trial at Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)