In Ottawa, the Vegas Golden Knights’ Jonathan Marchessault struck for two goals on Thursday night in a 5-1 win over the Senators.
The win helped the Knights improve to 5-5-0.
Robin Lehner made 38 saves in the Vegas win.
“We needed him the most in the first period or that game could have gone sideways quickly,” Vegas head coach Pete DeBoer said of Lehner, who made 16 saves in the first. “It’s a different game if you’re chasing all night. He was our best player in the first and that allowed us to kind of get our feet under us and I really liked our second period and our third period.”
Brady Tkachuk scored the Senators only goal in the loss.
“We just didn’t do the little things good enough,” Tkachuk said. “The little details on the forecheck. The way we want to play is we’re a fast, physical team, and we kind of slowed the game down and made life tough on ourselves. So, we’re going to take this opportunity to learn, but we just can’t make those mistakes again.”
Ottawa dropped to 3-6-1.
William Carrier, Brett Howden, and Marchessault scored for Vegas to help build a 3-0 lead before the Sens got on the board.
“Right now I’m pretty happy,” Marchessault said. “But I have a bigger goal than just 300 points. My goal is the Stanley Cup. So I’m going to keep working towards that goal every day.”
Alex Pietrangelo scored in the third period for a 4-1 lead.
“We got all kinds of chances,” Senators head coach D.J. Smith said. “If you’re playing a weaker goalie tonight we probably score five, but you can’t give up five. The chances against are blatant mistakes.”
Marchessault added an empty-net goal for his second marker of the night.
“Battling through some adversity as a group, we’ve just got to stay in games,” Lehner said. “And that’s the goalie, the [defense] and everyone. We’ve just got to battle and try to keep it as close as possible until we kind of get a goal, or at least get to the third period with close games.”
Filip Gustavsson made 34 saves
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