Vegas edge Flyers, 3-2 | Pro Hockey News

PHILADELPHIA – The Vegas Golden Knights paid their first visit to the Flyers Monday night and skated off with a tight, 3-2, win.

Ryan Carpenter scored the game-winner with under three minutes left in regulation.

Goalie Marc-Andre Fleury (#29) of the Las Vegas Golden Knights is congratulated for the win which is his 400th career win. In

“We’re pesky and never out of it,” Carpenter said. “Guys stayed positive on the bench after they tied it (2-2). You could tell they were trying to get some momentum, but we felt like we were going to get the next goal. So, it was nice to get it.”

Marc-Andre Fleury made 38 saves to get the win, his 400th career NHL victory.

“It’s nice,” Fleury said. “It’s something I’ll look up, be more proud of when I’m done. Still playing and always looking forward to the next game. It’s a nice number to reach. The list of guys in front of me, all the guys I have tremendous respect for, I looked up to growing up. Pretty cool to have my name with them.”

Vegas’ Erik Haula and William Karlsson traded goals with the Flyers ahead of Carpenter’s winner.

“Tonight was a good game,” Vegas coach Gerard Gallant said. “Philadelphia is a good hockey team. We came here and played a real good hockey game, solid game, found a way to get the late goal and win it. [Fleury] was the difference in the game.”

Claude Giroux and Wayne Simmonds scored for Philadelphia who played a n even up game with the NHL’s juggernaut of an expansion franchise.

“We’ve seen this story before,” Giroux said. “It’s frustrating. We played a hell of a game. We played the way we wanted to and everyone was going. A couple minutes left, and they find a way to put it in. It’s frustrating. We’ve got to stop doing this, but we know we can handle it and we’ve got to move forward from here.”

Vegas improved to 56-19-5.

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Petr Mrazek made 26 saves in taking the loss.

“I think we played a good game 5-on-5, [penalty kill] needs to be better, but we’ve got to move on, forget this one as soon as possible and move on and think about the next game,” the Flyers’ Sean Couturier said after the loss.

The Flyers dropped to 35-24-11.

Defenseman Shea Theodore (#27) of the Las Vegas Golden Knights shoves Philadelphia Flyers Center Travis Konecny (#11) out from in front of the Golden Knights crease.

Defenseman Brandon Manning (#23) of the Philadelphia Flyers looks for the rebound against Goalie Marc-Andre Fleury (#29) of the Las Vegas Golden Knights

Philadelphia Flyers and Vegas Golden Knights teammates pushing and shoving after the whistle as Linesman Devin Berg (#87) and Linesman Bevan Mills (#53) step in to control. Lol