The Vegas Golden Knights scored late in the third period on a goal from Alex Tuch to take 4-3 lead and hold that for the win over the Carolina Hurricanes in Raleigh on Friday night.
“It was something we were looking to do,” Tuch said. “We were able to execute, and I just put my stick on the ice and made sure I hit the net.”
Tuch’s were necessary because the Canes rallied from a 1-3 deficit to tie the game in the third period on goals from Brock McGinn and Sebastian Aho.
Malcolm Subban made 22 saves in the win.
“I didn’t play for a while, so in the first, you want to make the first save and just get into the game,” Subban said. “But my teammates made it easy for me.”
Teuvo Teravainen also scored for the Canes.
“We lost a lot of battles, we played kind of slow,” Teravainen said. “It’s nice we made a game [of it] but it doesn’t matter.”
Paul Stastny, Jonathan Marchessault and Nate Schmidt each struck for goals for the Knights.
“The first period is how we want to play, on our toes, attacking, hard in the offensive zone, using our size and our physicality,” Golden Knights coach Pete DeBoer said. “That was 20 great minutes. In the second, we stepped off that a little. We looked like we played with the lead a little bit. The good thing is we can do it. It’s just doing it for 60 minutes.”
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Petr Mrazek made 33 saves in the loss.
“It’s terrible. It’s not acceptable to come and play like that for two periods, two-and-a-half periods, to be honest with you. [Vegas] was good,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “I give them a ton of credit. They played desperate, they played fast. We just weren’t ready to match that, and that is what you get.”
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