In Vegas, Pavel Francouz made 29 saves for the visiting Colorado Avalanche who defeated the Golden Knights, 7-3 on Monday night.
The Avs’ Pierre-Edouard Bellemare returned to Las Vegas and posted two goals against his former team.
“This building has been good to me the last few months,” Bellemare said. “I don’t know what to tell you. I don’t really know how to summarize the whole thing, but I’ve played good here.”
William Carrier, Max Pacioretty and Ryan Reaves were the Knights’ strikers.
“Three goals in this league should give you a chance to win,” Vegas’ Mark Stone said. “It just shows our defensive game wasn’t there, especially when our goaltender plays well.”
Gabriel Landeskog, Mikko Rantanen, Matt Nietom and Nazem Kadri had single markers for the Avs.
“We should’ve had at least three points out of [the last three games]. We weren’t happy about it,” Bellemare said. “We know that offensively we’re always going to create our chances. We didn’t force that much tonight. We just tried to make them work for their chances, and we got ours.”
The Avs Valeri Nichushkin added salt to the mix with a late goal to make it 7-3.
“We’ve had a lot of injuries and we’ve overcome quite a bit of adversity already in the first half of the season, and we’re kind of getting through that injury bug now,” Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. “The depth that (general manager) Joe [Sakic] brought in in the offseason … we like the depth that we have, and guys are buying into those roles and they’re coming to play every night.”
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Marc-Andre Fleury made 31 saves in the loss.
“It’s a real good time for the break,” Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant said. “We’ve been playing real hard and real well before. Tonight was a stinker, but we’ll get by it and get back to good hockey on the 27th.”
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