Golden Knights open homestand with victory over Kraken

Shea Theodore and Reilly Smith scored successful the opening 1:16 of the 3rd period, and the Golden Knights opened a six-game homestand Tuesday with a 4-2 triumph implicit enlargement Seattle astatine T-Mobile Arena.

Robin Lehner won his 3rd consecutive determination and has allowed 2 oregon less goals successful 5 of his past 7 starts.

Evegenii Dadonov backhanded successful a escaped puck with 15.9 seconds remaining successful the 2nd play to necktie the score. The extremity came 15 seconds aft Yanni Gourde enactment the Kraken up 2-1 and was the archetypal of 3 consecutive shots to get past Seattle goalie Chris Driedger.

Theodore enactment the Knights up 30 seconds into the 3rd period, and Smith converted connected a powerfulness play arsenic the Knights scored 3 goals successful a span of 1:32 implicit the 2nd and 3rd periods.

Alex Pietrangelo capped a precocious surge successful the archetypal play erstwhile his wrist changeable was mishandled by Driedger and tied the people astatine 1 with 25.8 seconds near successful the period.

Theodore and Pietrangelo each finished with a extremity and an assist. Jonathan Marchessault and William Carrier added 2 assists apiece.

Jordan Eberle opened the scoring astatine 4:49 of the archetypal play connected a powerfulness play for Seattle, which mislaid its 5th consecutive roadworthy game.

Forward Paul Cotter made his NHL debut for the Knights a week earlier his 22nd birthday.

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