Trailing 2-1 after 20 minutes of play, the Vegas Golden Knights scored five straight goals to swamp the Oilers in Edmonton, 6-3.
Jonathan Marchessault struck twice and had three points in the win.
“My past 10 games were not good and neither was my last game (a 4-1 loss against the St. Louis Blues on Friday), so I definitely needed to pick it up,” Marchessault said. “Everyone is important on our team and we need to do what we do best to be successful and that’s what we did tonight, I think.”
The win moved the Knights to 9-11-1.
Jonathan Marchessault had two goals in Vegas’ win over Oilers – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
Marc-Andre Fleury made 29 saves to get the win.
“We weren’t very happy with our first period and then we made some really good adjustments inside the dressing room with players taking control of the situation and making sure everybody was contributing,” Golden Knights assistant coach Ryan McGill said. “I think in the last 40 minutes, everybody did contribute.”
The Oilers are 1-6-0 in their last seven games and could not build off Connor McDavid‘s goal with 52 seconds gone in the game. s
Leon Draisaitl and Alex Chiasson also scored for the Oilers.
“We did a lot wrong,” Oilers head coach Todd McLellan said of Eakin’s shorthanded goal. “We were sloppy breaking out, we fell behind the net, we turned it over from there, put it in the feet of one of our players, didn’t challenge the rush and didn’t get the save, so that’s five mistakes in about 10 seconds of play.
“Unacceptable. That changed the momentum and I think triggered a five or six-shot barrage where four of them went in, and it’s tough to recover from that.”
William Karlsson, Cody Eakin, Max Pacioretty, and Reilly Smith also scored for the Knights.
“The two in a row in the second, we got a little momentum and then after that we were able to get pucks in deep and we were able to play below their goal line a lot. That was nice. The two quick ones changed the momentum a bit,” Eakin said.
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Cam Talbot made 25 saves in taking the loss.
“We have to focus on playing a consistent 60 minutes. We have stretches where we dominate games and teams can’t even get in our zone and then we have stretches where we can’t even get out of our own zone,” McDavid said.
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