In Las Vegas, the Golden Knights Max Pacioretty struck for two goals in the third period and added two assists on the in a 6-3 win over the visiting Vancouver Canucks.
“I don’t know, there’s been times I felt like I’m playing my best hockey and don’t get any points,” Pacioretty said. “Obviously you to take it when it comes and feel good about it, but at the end of the day I just worry about the process.”
Marc-Andre Fleury made 26 saves in the win.
Brock Boeser, Elias Pettersson and Jake Virtanen scored for the Canucks.
“We weren’t very good. [We] looked a half-step behind most of the night,” Canucks coach Travis Green said. “They come at you hard and if you’re not good with the puck and a half-step behind, you are going to look like we did tonight.”
Vancouver has lost three of four.
Nick Holden, Mark Stone, Valentin Zykov, and Jonathan Marchessault also scored for the Knights.
“When we’ve lost, we kind of put together two good periods [and] one period has let us down; tonight, we didn’t have that letdown,” Pacioretty said. “It’s nice to string together a couple wins in important games.”
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Jacob Markstrom took the loss on 34 saves, but was given the hook when Pacioretty scored the first of his two third period goals.
Michael DiPietro made six saves in relief.
“No excuses. These are big points and we wanted to have a better road trip,” the Canucks’ Bo Horvat said.
DiPietro was called up from the Utica Comets in the AHL.
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