Golden Knights fall to Islanders, extend losing streak

The Golden Knights mislaid their 4th consecutive crippled Sunday, falling 2-0 to the New York Islanders successful beforehand of an announced assemblage of 17,699 astatine T-Mobile Arena.

The Knights, who wore their golden jerseys for the archetypal time, matched their 1-4 people successful 2018-19 for the worst commencement successful franchise history. It’s the archetypal clip they’ve mislaid 4 consecutive successful regularisation since Pete DeBoer was hired arsenic manager Jan. 15, 2020.

Goalie Robin Lehner faced his erstwhile nine for the 2nd clip since leaving New York but couldn’t outduel counterpart Ilya Sorokin, who earned his 2nd shutout successful arsenic galore nights aft blanking Arizona connected Saturday.

Josh Bailey scored 2:16 into the archetypal play erstwhile helium deposited a rebound, and Mathew Barzal added an security extremity for the Islanders successful the 3rd play with a pinpoint changeable implicit Lehner’s enarthrosis from a steep angle.

The Knights were without halfway Nolan Patrick, who missed the crippled with an upper-body injury.

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