The Minnesota Wild are going to want to leave Las Vegas and have their efforts there, stay there.
On Wednesday night, Marc-Andre Fleury made 36 saves for the Vegas Golden Knights in a 5-1 win over the Wild.
“The more you play, you just go out and play and not think as much,” Fleury said. “You react to what’s happening in front of you. You just wait for the puck more. The play slows down a little bit, so it’s been good.”
Marcus Foligno‘s goal was the only blemish on Fleury’s night.
“Not to get goals tonight was frustrating,” Minnesota head coach Dean Evason said. “It seemed like every opportunity they got it was in our net. Every opportunity that we got, Fleury seemed to be there, or we didn’t finish. That was frustrating.”
Alex Tuch got the Vegas offense started when staked them to a 1-0 lead.
“It’s been the same since Year One. Whenever we play those other teams, we have that chip on our shoulder,” Tuch said. “I like playing against the Wild. It’s been a lot of fun beating them, that’s for sure.”
Jonathan Marchessault scored to make it 2-0 before the Wild got on the board.
Mark Stone pushed the lead back to two goals.
Chandler Stephenson and William Karlsson scored the final two goals for Vegas. 
Cam Talbot made 23 saves in the loss.
“I don’t think the score really showed what the game was today,” the Wild’s Jared Spurgeon said. “I think it was a lot closer to that until the end. As a group, we’ve just got to keep working and fine-tune our game.”
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