In Las Vegas on Sunday night, the Golden Knights rolled up the visiting Calgary Flames in a 6-0 win.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 34 saves to get the win as the Knights snapped a five-game winless streak.
“It’s been a rough patch,” Fleury said. “We haven’t been scoring as much lately, so to see so many guys get goals tonight, it’s good. It boosts everybody’s confidence.”
It’s been especially rough given that the teams around in the Pacific Division have started to come on after slow starts; the Holden Knights have serious competition in the divisional race.
William Karlsson bookended the night with two goals.
“That’s our goal. Not to sit back on our heels and play scared, not to play for a tie. That’s not our club,” Vegas’ Max Pacioretty (one goal) said. “When we do that, that’s when we run into trouble. We’re at our best when we’re at their end and moving forward.”
The Flames have been shutout twice in a row and have not scored in over 130 minutes of time.
“It’s getting pretty old,” Flames forward Matthew Tkachuk said. “It’s not that our starts have been horrible. We just can’t get this lead. When we trail, we press and they put a six spot on us. We kind of let them run away with it and leave our goalie out to dry countless times.”
Paul Stastny, Cody Eakin and Mark Stone all scored between Karlsson’s two goals.
“That’s what we were talking about before the third, to have the mindset to score more goals, play the same way,” Karlsson said. “Be aggressive, but also be aware. I think we executed very well and, overall, played a really good game.”
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Cam Talbot made 31 saves in the loss.
“We’re not bearing down and putting those ones in,” Mark Giordano said after the loss. “I thought we had our looks early in the game. They came out the first five minutes with a push, and I thought we pushed back, but couldn’t find a way to score.”
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