In Ottawa, the visiting Vegas Golden Knights responded to the coaching change from earlier in the week and doubled up the Senators, 4-2, on Thursday night.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 32 saves to get the win.
Mark Stone had a goal for the Golden Knights – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
Peter DeBoer won his fist game as the Vegas bench boss.
“It was a tough week for them, and I thought they responded the right way,” DeBoer said. “They came out, they poured their energy into the game, playing the right way, and we got rewarded for it. Hopefully it’s the start of a roll here.”
Connor Brown had a goal and an assist, Vladislav Namestnikov scored, and
“Obviously, [Vegas] was motivated with all the changes going on and [Stone] coming back to play here,” Brown said. “It was a good effort to push back, but obviously not good enough out of the gate.”
Mark Stone, Paul Stastny and Chandler Stephenson scored in the first period to stake the Knights to a 3-0 lead.
“They took it to us in the first 10 [minutes],” Senators defenseman Ron Hainsey said. “And we talked about it, but we just weren’t able to make any plays to get anything going up the ice in those first 10. And we were really on our heels after that.”
Ryan Reaves also scored for Vegas.
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Craig Anderson made 39 saves in the loss.
“They (Golden Knights) are very good, very deep, very big,” Ron Hainsey said. “They’ve got [Fleury] over there, who’s a proven guy. They are certainly a team that has all the capability in the world to have a very good season.”
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