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Recap: The Golden Knights traveled to Seattle to wrap up their two-game road trip. Vegas got to work midway through the game when Victor Olofsson scored his 3rd goal of the short season. Minutes later, Tomas Hertl recorded his 2nd on the power play. After the opening 20 minutes the Golden Knights held a 2-0 advantage.
Quickly into the middle frame, captain Mark Stone scored a shorthanded goal to give Vegas a commanding 3-0 lead. Olofsson potted his second of the night on a quick release shot, which also went down as Trevor Connelly’s first career NHL assist. Then, Jack Eichel pickpocked a Kraken player, went in on a breakaway, and scored to give VGK a 5-0 lead at the end of two.
The game got chippy in the 3rd period as Ben Myers got kicked out of the game for a nasty boarding penalty on Victor Olofsson. Olofsson had to leave with an injury. Then Mark Stone stepped up to fight Brandon Montour. VGK scored on the ensuing major penalty giving Tomas Hertl a four-point night.
The Golden Knights record improves to 3-1-0 defeating the Kraken 6-2 in Seattle. Next up, Vegas will travel back home to host the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday night. Puck drop is scheduled for 7 PM. (Recap by Jason)
Analysis: The Golden Knights were extremely opportunistic, capitalizing on their chances in this game. Albeit, they had almost every dangerous chance in the game. It was a complete fanny whacking from the moment the puck dropped until the end. Even with taking penalties instantly at the start of the 1st and 2nd, VGK never looked even close to in danger for a second in this contest. (Analysis by Ken)
In the battle of the NHL’s two newest expansion franchises, the Golden Knights have gotten the better of the Kraken so far. VGK have a 13-3-3 record against Seattle and have never lost in regulation at tonight’s venue, Climate Pledge Arena.
Despite a 5-0-3 indoor record in Seattle (trying to forget the Winter Classic), the Kraken have been a tough nut to crack for the Golden Knights recently. VGK have lost three straight overtime contests at Climate Pledge and have failed to score more than three goals in four of the last five games against the Kraken.
Seattle enters this game with a sterling defensive start to the season. They’ve allowed just five goals in three games and have conceded just one in two of them. Of course, both of those games were against the lowly Calgary Flames, but projected starter Joey Daccord has been excellent to begin the year and even better in his career against Vegas.
Daccord owns a 5-2-0 record against the Golden Knights with a .929 save percentage and 2.10 goals against average. He shut them out in the unfortunately aforementioned Winter Classic, and has allowed four goals against VGK just once, a game at T-Mobile Arena right before Vegas went on the Cup run in 2023.
Seattle hasn’t had much success scoring on Vegas either, though. Four of the last five contests between these two teams have seen five total goals or fewer. The Kraken have scored three or fewer goals in each of the last six games against Vegas and have never scored more than four in 19 meetings.
Like Daccord, Carter Hart’s history against Seattle has been strong. In his lone start against the Kraken with Vegas, he stopped 22 of 23 to help VGK clinch the Pacific Division in the final game of last season. Overall, he’s posted a .916 save percentage and 2.25 goals against average in four starts vs. Seattle.
Both the Golden Knights and Kraken have begun this season looking to play a fairly simple, direct game. Expect plenty of skating tonight, but not much in the way of scoring chances.
Three games, 11 goals, ten different goal scorers.
The Golden Knights are getting contributions from all over the lineup early on, and it’s a big reason why they’ve been able to win a pair of games and nearly come back in the other.
That production has been fueled by a fairly balanced usage of the forward lines at even strength. Aside from the 3rd period of the Anaheim game, when Ryan Craig went down to using just three lines, he’s essentially rolled the four lines, and contributions have followed.
Five different players have an even-strength goal (Marner, Eichel, Connelly, Bowman, Gatcomb) and nine of the 12 have at least a point. The only guys without a point are Mark Stone, William Karlsson, and Tomas Hertl, all of whom have made big impacts on special teams.
I thought all four of our lines were good. I thought different lines had different spurts at at different times. We talked about trying to stack shifts together. -Craig
Recap: The Golden Knights traveled to Vancouver for their first road game of the season. Late in the opening 20 minutes, the Canucks scored on the power play to take a 1-0 edge into the intermission.
Vegas’ Mitch Marner evened the score with his first goal of 2026-27. Minutes later, Vegas’ Victor Olofsson gave Vegas a 2-1 advantage on the power play. The Canucks scored to keep pace, but Marc Gatcomb scored before the break to make it a 3-2 Golden Knights lead.
Vancouver fought back, but Vegas was able to close out the game and pick up their second win of the season.
The Golden Knights’ record improves to 2-1-0, defeating the Canucks 3-2 in Vancouver. Next up, Vegas will take a short trip to Seattle for a matchup with the Kraken. Puck drop is scheduled for 6:40 PM. (Recap by Jason)
Analysis: The Golden Knights didn’t exactly run the Canucks off the ice on the scoreboard but for a good portion of the early part of the game, they controlled the possession and territory handily. Eventually, the dam broke in the middle frame and they were able to kind of take control of the game. Vancouver looks a little better than they have the last few years, but they are still a mile away from being a competitive team, so VGK needed to beat them, and they did. (Analysis by Ken)
Recap: The Golden Knights were looking to start the season 2-0-0 with a victory over the visiting Anaheim Ducks. Both teams traded penalties in the opening 20 minutes but failed to take the opening lead. With eight seconds remaining in the period, the visiting team took a 1-0 edge into the intermission.
Anaheim’s offense continued to pressure Vegas’ zone and promptly scored two goals in the first 2:28 of the middle frame. The Ducks scored another goal moments later to hold a commanding 4-0 advantage through 40 minutes of action.
Vegas took it up a notch in the final 20 minutes. First defenseman Shea Theodore scored his first goal of the season to get the Golden Knights on the scoreboard. 90 seconds later, Tomas Hertl gave Vegas life, making it a 4-2 Anaheim lead. With under three minutes to go in the contest, Braeden Bowman cut Anaheim’s lead to one. However, Vegas couldn’t find the tying goal.
The Golden Knights record drops to 1-1-0, falling to the Ducks 4-3 at T-Mobile Arena. Next up, Vegas will travel to Vancouver for a Sunday evening matchup against the Canucks. Puck drop is scheduled for 6 PM. (Recap by Jason)
Analysis: The game was fairly even for the 1st period if not leaning a bit towards the Golden Knights. That changed in a hurry with a magical pass from Leo Carlsson to end the 1st and then a barrage to start the 2nd. VGK abandoned their simple chip-and-chase style and it bit them in the butt until the Ducks started backing off and trying to limit breaks. The Golden Knights looked so much better from that point on but four goals was too deep a hole. (Analysis by Ken)
Season 10 is off to the perfect start and an Original Misfit is locked in for a couple more years. We discuss the home opener, some of Ryan Craig’s tactics, Karlsson’s contract, and Jason going soft as a coach. Hosted by Ken Boehlke and Jason Pothier.
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