Mark Stone had two goals and two assists, Mitch Marner scored two goals and Jack Eichel had four assists as the Vegas Golden Knights earned a 6-1 victory over the Calgary Flames on Saturday night in Las Vegas.
It was the 28th multi-goal game of Marner’s career. Ivan Barbashev and Tomas Hertl each added a goal and an assist for Vegas, which won its third straight game while extending its season-opening point streak to six games. Adin Hill made 26 saves to earn his first win in three starts this season.
Jonathan Huberdeau scored a goal in his first season for Calgary, which lost its fifth straight game. Dustin Wolf finished with 14 saves before being pulled early in the third period by Devin Cooley, who made eight saves for the Flames.
Vegas needed just 46 seconds to take a 1-0 lead. Barbashev stole the puck behind the goal and backhanded Marner, closing the gap. Marner then swept a wrist shot past Wolf’s blocker for his first goal as a Golden Knight.
Huberdeau tied it 1-1 at 3:42 with a power play goal, firing a kneeling shot from the front of the net.
The Golden Knights regained the lead less than two minutes later thanks to a power play goal by Hertl who fired a shot from the slot on a Stone setup in front of Wolf’s glove for his third goal in the last three games.
Stone made it 3-1 late in the period, catching a pass from Eichel inside the right post.
Vegas extended the lead to 5-1 with two goals in the second period. The first came when Barbashev, stationed in the slot, deflected Kaeden Korczak’s shot from the right point over Wolf’s right arm. Marner added a power play goal with 54 seconds left in the period, cutting to the net and hitting Wolf with a forehand fake before placing a backhand shot past the blocking side.
The Golden Knights made it 3-for-3 on the power play early in the third period when Stone corralled a rebound of a Hertl shot from the left doorstep to end the scoring.
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