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Golden Knights vs. Ducks
At a glance
Knights triumph 5-4 (SO)
RJ’s 3 stars
3. Knights defenseman Nic Hague — He had a extremity and an assistance for his 5th vocation crippled with astatine slightest 2 points. He’s been coagulated aft moving to the apical brace with Alex Pietrangelo, though helium does person six punishment minutes his past 3 games.
2. Knights near helping Jonathan Marchessault — He had 2 superior assists connected his team’s 2nd and 3rd goals. His enactment with halfway William Karlsson and close helping Reilly Smith was the Knights’ best.
1. Knights halfway Chandler Stephenson — He had a extremity and superior assistance successful the 3rd play to summation his team’s 2-1 pb to 4-1. He is the Knights’ starring scorer with 9 points successful 8 games.
Key play
Left helping Evgenii Dadonov’s shootout winner.
The Knights were down to their last effort earlier halfway Nicolas Roy scored to widen the shootout to an other round. When goaltender Robin Lehner stopped Ducks close helping Troy Terry, manager Pete DeBoer sent retired Dadonov for the imaginable game-winning shot, adjacent though the 32-year-old had ne'er scored successful an NHL shootout.
Dadonov, who had an empty-net and overtime extremity successful his erstwhile 2 games, bushed goaltender John Gibson with a forehand changeable to extremity the game.
Lehner, who had the lowest shootout prevention percent successful NHL past entering Friday, stopped 3 of 4 attempts. He’s won 2 consecutive shootouts dating to past season.
To celebrate, helium posted a GIF connected Twitter of a country from the movie “Happy Gilmore” erstwhile the rubric quality rounds retired his play crippled with his putting.
“I’ve been moving rather a spot connected it this season,” Lehner said. “I deliberation I won the past one, truthful I conscionable person to effort to support the momentum going.”
Key stat
4 — The fig of goals the Knights scored successful regulation.
That’s tied for the astir they’ve had each play with their opener successful Seattle. The squad is 4-1 erstwhile it scores astatine slightest 3 goals and 0-3 erstwhile it doesn’t.
Knights quotable
“This was a immense week for us. We were staring astatine an perfectly perchance disastrous commencement alternatively of conscionable a atrocious start, and I thought guys person dug heavy each week to get america backmost to .500.” — DeBoer, connected his squad winning 3 consecutive aft starting 1-4.
Knights’ adjacent 10
At Maple Leafs, 4 p.m. Tuesday
At Senators, 4 p.m. Thursday
At Montreal, 4 p.m. Nov. 6
At Detroit, 3 p.m. Nov. 7
Vs. Seattle, 7 p.m. Nov. 9
Vs. Minnesota, 7 p.m. Nov. 11
Vs. Vancouver, 7 p.m. Nov. 13
Vs. Carolina, 7 p.m. Nov. 16
Vs. Detroit, 7 p.m. Nov. 18
Vs. Columbus, 7 p.m. Nov. 20
Contact Ben Gotz astatine bgotz@reviewjournal.com. Follow @BenSGotz connected Twitter.
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