Recap: The Golden Knights hit home ice for the first time in 2025-25 for a preseason matchup against Pacific Division rival LA Kings. After a long summer, Vegas fans got a chance to watch some of their favorite players in action. Full-timers Pavel Dorofeyev, Noah Hanifin, Tomas Hertl, Adin Hill, William Karlsson, Brandon Saad, Reilly Smith, Mark Stone and Zach Whitecloud all dressed against the Kings.
Los Angeles opened the scoring five minutes into Vegas’ second exhibition game. The Kings doubled their less midway in the third period. Vegas’ young defenseman Vliam Kmec snapped the shutout to get his team within one. An empty netter sealed it for the Kings.
Vegas will face the Utah Mammoth on Thursday for their third preseason match. Puck drop is scheduled for 7 PM. (Recap by Jason)
Analysis: Fairly uninspiring game again for VGK. There were a few nice shifts from the Karlsson line as well as Hertl’s line, and the power play got a lot of pucks on net but overall not exactly a barrage of offense. (Recap by Ken)
Ken’s Three VGK Stars
*** Akira Schmid
** Viliam Kmec
* Mark Stone
Richie-Rich
Y-A-W-N….. Karlsson line looked good. Good for KMEC. At this point let’s just get through the preseason without any major injuries.
Emmanuel
Kmec is one more reason to check out Henderson.
Tyler Durden
Some MAGAT could’ve been ThG wearing his stupid MAGA hat was complaining his drink was too watered down.
Wonder why?
Maybe people hate MAGATS.
knights fan in minny
Fuck you turd Your party is nothing but hate and violence Are you going to run Away with your tail between your legs like the pussy that you are
Pistol Pete
Kmec might just be another undrafted gem like
Whitecloud. He’s a mobile big body. Hopefully he can defend in Henderson because last year he was the fifth highest pointing D in the WHL. I know, I know that is the juniors this is the AHL and NHL but still #5 in WHL D points is meaningful. Cormier was good in the juniors too but he’s 3” shorter and 25 lb. lighter.
Pistol Pete
Cormier went on a better than a point a game a tear his last two seasons in the juniors but he was injury prone then as he is now. He’s too small. At least for him he is. It’s between Sedoff and Kmec I would say.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukas_Cormier
Pistol Pete
Just don’t have the cap space. Marner was not possible w/o Petro out for the rest of his contract. From recent The Athletic article.
“Pietrangelo wouldn’t publicly rule out the possibility of playing this season, but it’s clear that it is the expectation for both him and the team. The veteran blue liner still has two seasons remaining on his seven-year contract with an average annual cap hit of $8.8 million.
And with roughly a $93.4 million total cap hit, the Golden Knights don’t have the cap space to activate him from the long-term injured reserve list. That is to say, the team is operating under the assumption they’ll be without Pietrangelo for the 2025-26 season.”
Pistol Pete
McCrimmon is on the record that he does not expect to ever play again.
“For now, Pietrangelo is still opting not to undergo surgery, hoping it will heal on its own through physical rehabilitation.”
“I met with a lot of people and spoke to different players who have been through something similar, and the rehab process is the way I want to do it right now,” he said. “It’s obviously making a huge difference. I feel a lot better.”
“Pietrangelo said the issue has bothered him for some time, and he attempted to manage it without surgery last season in the hope of winning another Stanley Cup.”
“It probably started a long time ago, but last year was when it really took a toll on me,” he said. “Maybe due to age? I couldn’t exactly pinpoint why. By the time it really started to get to me last year, to try to address it would’ve cut the whole year off for me.”
The hockey God
“McCrimmon is on the record that he does not expect to ever play again.” yeah so what, you are on record here as being flim flam artist with excessive flip floppery.
Pistol Pete
The real point is it remains unlikely Petro plays again for the VGK just as McCrimmon said “I do not expect him to play again”. Do you really think they shed $8.8m to make it happen? Stone would have to go on LTIR to never return again which is more than likely the case for Petro and is what we have been told will happen.
ThG
you live in fantasy land with all your silly gyrations and hypothetical bull shit.
Pistol Pete
Do you really think Petro playing again within the next two seasons is a matter of hypothesis?
ThG
I was referring to your “stone” postulation. Obviously. Another shit show of a post. In long line of them.
ThG
The rookie tournie carry over isn’t making it into NHL preseason games. Showcasing that VGK depth is just not plain “good enough” at this level. You would expect that one or two players would show themselves as having some level of compete against their NHL counter parts. So far, that has not been the case. Meanwhile PP repeats the same stuff as Ken already posted, must have been asleep at wheel.
The Indians score on three bunts, a batter hit in face, a balk, a wild pitch. INdians play baseball while tigers are deeply mired in worst slump in MAJOR LEAGUE HISTORY. The manager is MIA, the players are done and exhausted. Smart money is on Indians to take the division, and Red Sox to beat out Tigers for last playoff spot. As Boston beat Toronto. Chief Wahoo has the tribal drums beating, sending up smoke signals, while the tigers are tamed and ready to be backed to the zoo. This is biggest story in sports right now, Outside of the Herd guy, what’s his name , being wrong yet again when he picked the RAMS to beat the EAGLES. Well he is a lame lib tard loud mouth know nothing anyway.
Pistol Pete
If you are inferring about their most recent pod cast talking about Petro I have not listened to it so I have no idea what they said on the subject.
ThG
In the real world.
In a monumental stand for journalistic integrity and a resounding rebuke of the liberal media’s corrosive, evil, sick, twisted Anti American agenda, the Sinclair Broadcast Group issued a powerful declaration on Monday evening. The major broadcasting entity announced its decisive action to pull the plug on Jimmy Kimmel Live! across its extensive network of ABC affiliate stations. This bold move comes as a direct response to the cowardly capitulation of ABC, which chose to reinstate the controversial host just a mere six days after a token suspension for his egregious and dangerous lies regarding the assassination of conservative leader and true American hero Charlie Kirk.
The catalyst for this industry-shaking decision was ABC’s stunning failure to uphold any standard of accountability. Earlier on Monday, the network confirmed that Jimmy Kimmel would be allowed to return to the airwaves, effectively endorsing his malicious fabrications. Kimmel had been suspended for lying to millions of vi
ThG
who says there isn’t politics in sports??
“BREAKING NEWS: Dan Campbell roared with a commanding declaration — “If anyone dares to open their mouth and claim that I was wrong for angrily and publicly blasting Jimmy Kimmel, I swear I will tear my coaching career to shreds right here in Detroit.
because I will never allow the souls of the departed to be a disgusting joke on national television!” — Lions Nation exploded, and the entire American football scene was shaken by the fiery oath of Detroit’s relentlessly passionate head coach…
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Meh…. it’s preseason. Hope Pav is a quick recovery. It was good to see Aiden and Akira go in net. They definitely need to get the rust off. A bit of an underwhelming show from the kids, and the the VGK starters. I have no concerns at this point, it’s preseason and guys are getting over their long summer. Too long. We shall see how it is truly looking come December. Too early to say anything else, except PP, with all love and respect, would you please, pretty please with ice cream on top, STOP SPAMMING! Maybe get a legal pad and write it out first.
Meanwhile, another leftist has attacked an ICE detention facility killing 2 in custody. The civil war was caused by the dems, and it looks like they want round 2. They kill kids in church, a man who tried to debate in a civil fashion, illegals waiting deportation, instigated the Jan 6th unauthorized Capitol tour, and they still keep spewing hate. Leftist seem to forget that the National Socialist Workers Party and the Fascist Party were both far left parties. If you don’t like it here, please leave, go to Venzuela, North Korea, Cuba, Brazil, or Canada. We don’t need you and the country would be more peaceful and prosperous without you.
God Bless, and I am praying for my family in Christ, and those who are in the darkness. Come to Jesus with a repentant heart before it is too late. For some it already is, the world is looking like Roman’s 1 and there are reprobates walking around.