In Las Vegas, Marc-Andre Fleury made 14 saves, that’s it, for a 1-0 win on Sunday over the Arizona Coyotes.
“The past few games had been hard. Couldn’t get a win. Took a while,” Fleury said. “Maybe we weren’t scoring much as we used to, but I didn’t make the key saves to keep us in and get us those wins. Tonight was a different style game, a little harder mentality, but it was nice to get the win in the end.”
The win helped Fleury tied Ed Belfour for fourth on the all-time list of wins,five back of Roberto Luongo; the whitewash tied Patrick Roy for 15th all-time.
“With Patrick, he was one of my idols growing up. Loved watching him and obviously I have a lot of respect for him,” Fleury said. “It’s humbling to be up there with him.”
The game was scoreless until Tomas Nosek potted the only goal of the contest in the third period.
“I really liked our detail and our effort tonight, defensively and offensively,” Golden Knights head coach Peter DeBoer said. “I liked the fact we stuck with it. We didn’t get away from our game plan and didn’t get impatient. We just stuck with it.”
Adin Hill made 28 saves in the hard luck loss.
“We were ready to go,” Arizona’s Alex Goligoski said. “[We] had a lot of intensity, the intentions were there, tried to do the right things. We’ve got to value possessions in the [offensive] zone. Sometimes we rushed plays a little bit.”
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