Golden Knights knock off first-place Flames

Nicolas Roy finished with a extremity and an assist, and the Golden Knights held disconnected Calgary 3-2 connected Sunday successful beforehand of an announced assemblage of 18,077 astatine T-Mobile Arena.

Roy scored aboriginal successful the 3rd play for a 2-0 vantage and added an assistance connected Evgenii Dadonov’s security extremity midway done the period. The Knights won their 2nd consecutive and moved wrong 7 points of the first-place Flames successful the Pacific Division.

Max Pacioretty scored successful the archetypal play to widen his constituent streak to 5 games, finishing disconnected a two-on-one unreserved with Chandler Stephenson.

Robin Lehner flirted with a shutout earlier Elias Lindholm deflected a changeable past the Knights goaltender astatine 9:19 of the 3rd period. Calgary had its three-game winning streak snapped and mislaid successful regularisation connected the roadworthy for the archetypal clip since Nov. 11.

Calgary’s Andrew Mangiapane scored with 2:32 to play to marque it a one-goal game.

The Knights improved to 7-0 each clip against the Flames astatine T-Mobile Arena.

Center William Karlsson returned to the lineup aft missing the past 15 games with a breached foot.

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