Recap: The Golden Knights hosted the Carolina Hurricanes in hopes to get back on the winning side. Both teams had early chances but neither could find the back of the net. The Golden Knights were awarded a power play, but the Hurricanes fought it off. The game was locked in a scoreless tie after the opening 20 minutes.
Vegas center Jack Eichel opened the scoring with a nasty wrist shot, giving his team a 1-0 lead. Carolina would tie the game minutes later, but Eichel drove to the net and regained the lead for the Golden Knights. The home team carried a 2-1 advantage into the second intermission.
Midway through the final period Carolina tied the game off a deflection in front of Adin Hill. Late in the game Michael Amadio made a beautiful one-time pass to Reilly Smith for the tap-in. Smith’s 20th goal of the season gave the Golden Knights a 3-2 edge. Vegas fought off one last push from Carolina to secure a one-goal victory.
The Golden Knights’ record improves to 36-19-6 defeating the Hurricanes 3-2. Next, Vegas will welcome the New Jersey Devils on Friday night. Puck drop is scheduled for 7 PM. (Recap by Jason)
Analysis: The story of the night is VGK’s excellent display at the defensive blue line. They had excellent gaps all night against a speedy Hurricanes team and it forced them to dump pucks in. When they did, the Golden Knights were great going back to get them. This forced the Canes to press a bit more in the O-Zone and it helped lead to a pair of rush-chance goals. Fast games really suit Jack Eichel, and we saw that again tonight. (Analysis by Ken)
Upcoming stories from the Vegas Golden Knights vs. Carolina Hurricanes at T-Mobile Arena.
- The Golden Knights are not a young team, no matter what they tell you
Ken’s Three VGK Stars
*** Reilly Smith
** Alex Pietrangelo
* Jack Eichel
Story of the night came to the forefront in the empty net situation. VGK were tremendous at the defensive blue line all night and it earned them one of their most impressive wins of the season.
— SinBin.vegas (@SinBinVegas) March 2, 2023
Absolute gem of a pass from Karlsson to Amadio sends VGK in on a rush. Sweet delay by Amadio to evade the sliding defenseman and Smith finally gets the monkey off his back. 3-2 VGK
— SinBin.vegas (@SinBinVegas) March 2, 2023
It's incredible how often Brent Burns finds himself sprinting back into his own zone chasing down an odd-man rush in this building. A tale as old as time.
— SinBin.vegas (@SinBinVegas) March 2, 2023
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Jack Eichel is an American professional ice hockey center for the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). Eichel was selected second overall in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft by the Buffalo Sabres. Before entering the league, Eichel was described at the age of 17 as “the new face of American hockey,” and he was considered a member of a rising class of generational talents in the sport.
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Jack Eichel was the recipient of the 2015 Hobey Baker Award, given to the top National Collegiate Athletic Association men’s ice hockey player. He was the second freshman to win the award, the other being Paul Kariya in 1993.
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Jack Eichel has received a number of awards that include the Nobel Peace Prize (joint award with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007), a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (2009) a Primetime Emmy Award for Current TV (2007), and a Webby Award (2005). Eichel was also the subject of the Academy Award winning (2007) documentary An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, as well as its 2017 sequel An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. In 2007, he was named a runner-up for Time’s 2007 Person of the Year.[9] In 2008, Eichel won the Dan David Prize for Social Responsibility.
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If Jack Eichel were to travel to an alternate dimension in which there was another Jack Eichel and they both fought, they would both win.
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Jack Eichel recently had the idea to sell his pee as a canned beverage. It’s now called Red Bull.
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If paper beats rock, rock beats scissors, and scissors beats paper, what beats all 3 at the same time? Jack Eichel
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Jack Eichel once shot an enemy plane down with his finger, by yelling, “Bang!”
Hdbiker7851
Great win – hats of to Eichel – nice winning goal by Smithy. The “A” team showed up tonight. Give credit when credit is due. On to Friday and a repeat performance
Sorvino
Jack Eichel does not use spell check. If he happens to misspell a word, Oxford will change the spelling.
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Jack Eichel’s calendar goes straight from March 31st to April 2nd, because no one fools Jack Eichel.
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Jack Eichel stands faster than anyone can skate.
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Once a cobra bit Jack Eichel’s leg. After five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died.
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Jack Eichel once won a game of Connect Four in three moves.
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Jack Eichel can slam revolving doors.
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Jack Eichel can build a snowman out of rain.
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Jack Eichel can drown a fish.
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The only time jack Eichel was ever wrong in his life is when he thought he made a mistake.
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When Jack Eichel does a push-up, he is pushing the world down.
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Jack Eichel doesn’t wear a watch, he decides what time it is.
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Jack Eichel doesn’t breathe, he holds air hostage.
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Jack Eichel can start a fire with an ice cube.
Hdbiker7851
You sorvino are one sick individual.
TS
Sorvino, now don’t hold back! Tell us how you REALLY feel about Eichel?? Lol..he had the kind of game we wanted to see! He seems to have finally found his A GAME, for sure!!
THE hockey GOD
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vgk21
great game by Eichel…not only the 2 goals, but his checking and winning faceoffs and playing 2-way, 200 foot hockey.
and great pass by Amadio on the winning goal.
now we see the stretch run strategy…..defensive structure hockey, low scoring low event hockey, and acquire bottom six grinders to carry out the game plan.
oh, and the alley oop pass to exit the zone when the opponent tries to pinch all night. excellent adjustment by coaches at end of period 1.
Pistol Pete
In the TNT interview Eichel mentioned playing well in their end. I like that. He’s bought into the importance of defending (including to win a Cup). A Cup, even winning the West, will be a tall order without Stone but we shall see. It is encouraging to see wins like this without him for sure. Makes one think playing well in the postseason sans Stone is possible.
Not sure what McCrimmon and Cassidy have in mind with Teddy Bleuger. With all the forwards healthy Bleuger would be the 14th. With Roy still it’s possible Cassidy scratches Cotter on Friday. We’ll see what it looks like in the practice.
THE hockey GOD
PP best part of that post game interview was ELVIS
followed by panel singing Elvis, and then arguing about whether
that was an Elvis song. And of course, the locker room Elvis impersonator.
Mark
Jack !!!
SMH
“You go back, Jack, do it again, wheel turnin’ ’round and ’round” – Steely Dan
Pistol Pete
Dorofeyev and Brisson each scored tonight in HSK’s 6-5 win. Cormier had an assist.
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Oh and Brission had two assists as well. A three point night.
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Still aiming high lol:
14-7-0 = 106 pts
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Win the next two and it will require just 12/19 (.632) to meet that goal. Friday will be another big challenge. Keep defending like they did tonight and anything possible. Did I see Kessel backchecking? Am I sensing the PP is about to get back on track?
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Nice to see Eichel applying his speed to the 200 ft. game. Get back, take care of things in your end and the breakouts will come.
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During the second intermission TNT commentator Henrik Lunqvist explained that the first CAR goal was extremely difficult to defend against. He ought to know. Hill has been excellent.
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It’s early but so far Barbashev a noticeable upgrade to Cotter on the top line. Hopefully the physicality and grit he brings is infectious. Would be nice if he can recover the offensive production he saw last season when he went 26 G/34 A. Don’t see why he can’t.
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Cassidy on Teddy Bleuger:
The Golden Knights acquired forward Teddy Blueger in a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins earlier in the day. “He’s a checking centerman who scored some points,” Cassidy said. “Here’s a kid who alters his game to do what he has to do to play in the National Hockey League. Right away, I’m impressed by that.”
Pistol Pete
Vegas reported to be talking to Columbus about Jonathan Quick.
https://insidetherink.com/vegas-inquiring-about-blue-jackets-newly-acquired-goaltender-jonathan-quick/
Jailbird
Nice win. Let’s not forget how well Hill is playing!
knights fan in minny
huge win against a legit cup contender jack showing why he makes the big bucks big goals hill did his job wild bill had a couple of real nice passes very entertaining game to watch have to stay at this high level
THE hockey GOD
Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaackkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Eiiiiiiiiicccccccccchhhhhhhhellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll !!!!
next up
Teddy Krugar !
where are all the haters today ??
“oh we will be in fifth place by now”
“the FO is crap”
“the FO will be done by now”
“the coach sucks”
“the pp sucks”
oh boy
THE FIFTH LINE !!!
Richie-Rich
ThG – Nothing negative to say after this game. It was a solid performance after a complete collapse in Denver.
All the credit goes to Cassidy and the players for outperforming my expectations.
The team has two MUST wins coming up or the Carolina game becomes rather meaningless in terms of getting to 106 points. If they get through that then they face NJD, a team that got much better at the trade deadline.
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read my prior post about these “four ” (now three) “upcoming games.
The beasts from east BAH !!!
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R-R in Denver they showed up to play, played hard but it did not click offensively I would not call allowing one goal after Hill’s gaffe a complete collapse as far as defending. You need both but defense comes before offense.
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THE hockey GOD, my favourite part about the haters are when they tell you that they don’t like being called haters, and that they are not actually haters but realists.
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Frank Seravalli
@frank_seravalli
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37m
Trade details:
To #NHLBruins: Tyler Bertuzzi
To #LGRW: 2024 1st Rd Pick, 2025 4th Rd Pick<<<that is det red wings aka dead wings
Richie-Rich
A quality win against an elite Metro team. Jack Eichel steps up and carries the team on his shoulders. Amadio makes a perfect pass. Hill is serviceable in net.
Nothing negative to say about this game. More importantly they remain on a trajectory to possibly get to 106 points.
Marchy gets scrappy.
If Thompson remains out then bringing in Quick might be a great idea for insurance.
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frank says
“Vegas Golden Knights
Top Objective: Scoring Winger
Secondary Objective: Goaltending Insurance
Scoop: Vegas added intelligent center and role player Teddy Blueger to their mix on Wednesday, to go along with Ivan Barbashev acquired over the weekend. They still have $5.06 million in Mark Stone’s LTIR space to spend. They could use a winger that could deposit the puck (See: James van Riemsdyk) and also a little goaltending help (See: Jonathan Quick). The Golden Knights were well down the track in trade talks with Columbus for Quick, but needed to clear up a few things on their salary cap before they could make that happen. Vegas isn’t likely to be adding players with term, looking mostly for pure rentals.”
Richie-Rich
We finally agree on something. With the CAP space a goal scoring winger and goaltending insurance is a need. My entire analysis will go out the window if they can pull it off.
Still waiting to see the Russian invade the Crease! LOL.
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that is from Frank Servelli , just copying his quote, see ” and stuff between ” ?
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Barbashev should be called “shave cream”
they are already using the barber pole emoji for him on Twitter
Tim
John Gibson not Jonathan Quick but what do I know I’m just a baseball guy.
Vic
I wanted Gibson for the long term, but I guess too expensive. Quick is coming instead.
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according to tsn the hawks want a second for domi
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yes, I like Domi for VGK, but it looks like Carolina may possibly acquire him for the 2nd year in a row
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Lawless does not know wtf he is talking about, when he says that 94 pts will make the playoffs.
the 2 teams in 7th and 8th final wild card spots right now in the West, Seattle and Winnipeg, have 72 pts and 22 and 21 games left. at that same pace they would end with 98 and 97 pts respectively
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On behalf of the Vegas Golden Knights my boy Jack Eichel and I would like to welcome Jonathan Quick to the Golden Knights hockey club.
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Quick to VGK. no details yet on what goes to Jackets
Henderson's Finest
Hutchinson and a 2025 7th rounder
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VGK have acquired Jonathan Quick from the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for Michael Hutchinson and a 2025 seventh-round pick!
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Jackets retain 50% of cap hit