In Las Vegas, Marc-Andre Fleury made 24 saves as the Golden Knights managed a regulation win over the visiting Minnesota Wild on Tuesday night.
Vegas is 8-2-1 in the last 11 games.
“I think we’ve been playing pretty solid here the last little while, more like how we want to, more consistent,” Fleury said. “I think it’s big for us. It just gives us a chance to win every night. It’s fun to watch the guys go out there and score big goals.”
Mats Zuccarello and Zach Parise scored for the Wild.
“We did a lot of good things today,” the Wild’s Jordan Greenway said. “That’s a fast team we just played. I think we found ways to neutralize them a lot. We had a lot of chances.”
Tomas Nosek, Chandler Stephenson and Shea Theodore were the Vegas strikers.
“Just trying to take every day and be a better version of myself, and just get experience in games,” Stephenson said. “Having the trust in the coaching staff to have more ice time helps. I’m just trying to do my part as much as I can, and just clicking on the chemistry that me, [forward Max Pacioretty] and [Stone] have.”
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Alex Stalock made 26 saves in the loss.
The Wild are starting to look like a MASH unit with the injury list growing by the hour.
“What happened is we made some dumb plays and they capitalized on the goals,” Wild head coach Bruce Boudreau said. “I look around the League and see teams that lost 200 man games, 150 man games, we’re not going to cry, ‘Oh, woe is me’ because we’ve got a couple of guys hurt. If you can’t win with a couple of guys hurt, you don’t deserve to win.”
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