Golden Knights report: 2nd-period goal key in win over Wild

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Golden Knights vs. Wild

Knights triumph 3-2

RJ’s 3 stars

3. Knights goaltender Laurent Brossoit — He was coagulated successful his 2nd commencement successful 3 games. He made 22 saves for his 2nd triumph successful 3 starts arsenic a Knight.

2. Knights near helping Paul Cotter — He scored his archetypal NHL extremity 6:08 into his 2nd crippled to unfastened the scoring. It took him lone 2 shots connected extremity to find the backmost of the net.

1. Knights close helping Jonas Rondbjerg — He besides scored his archetypal NHL extremity successful the archetypal play of his seventh game. He added an assistance connected Cotter’s extremity for the archetypal two-point show of his career.

Key play

Left helping Jonathan Marchessault’s second-period goal.

The Knights led 2-0 aft the archetypal due to the fact that of Cotter and Rondbjerg, but they had to enactment to support their pb astir of the second. Then, conscionable earlier intermission, close helping Reilly Smith stole the puck from Minnesota defenseman Matt Dumba successful the neutral zone.

Smith sprinted into the violative portion earlier softly sending the puck backmost to Marchessault successful the slot. He buried the walk for his 5th extremity successful 5 games to springiness the Knights a 3-0 lead. It turned retired to beryllium the crippled winner

Key stat

6-for-6 — The Knights’ show connected the punishment kill.

They were short-handed for 9:11 — including the last 1:03 of the crippled — and didn’t let a goal. They besides defended five-on-three for 1:53. The Wild had 9 shots connected extremity during their six powerfulness plays, but lone 3 were from little than 34 feet away.

Merrill honored

The Knights played a tribute video for defenseman Jon Merrill during the archetypal media timeout Thursday.

Merrill, an enlargement draught pick, played 3 seasons successful Las Vegas earlier leaving arsenic a escaped agent. He helped decision the Knights successful the NHL semifinals with the Montreal Canadiens past postseason, but Thursday was his archetypal regular-season crippled astatine T-Mobile Arena since his departure.

It’s official: Jon Merrill tribute video. pic.twitter.com/eUhXcXg2CK

— Ben Gotz (@BenSGotz) November 12, 2021

Merrill played 140 games for the Knights and had six goals and 19 assists.

Military appreciation

The Knights had their yearly Military Appreciation Night connected Thursday.

The squad wore peculiar camouflage jerseys during warmups and auctioned them to payment the Vegas Golden Knights Foundation and The Folded Flag Foundation.

The Knights besides had veterans crank the rally siren betwixt periods.

Knights’ adjacent 10

Vs. Vancouver, 7 p.m. Saturday

Vs. Carolina, 7 p.m. Tuesday

Vs. Detroit, 7 p.m. Thursday

Vs. Columbus, 7 p.m. Nov. 20

At St. Louis, 5 p.m. Nov. 22

At Nashville, 5 p.m. Nov. 24

Vs. Edmonton, 4 p.m. Nov. 27

At Anaheim, 7 p.m. Dec. 1

At Arizona, 6:30 p.m. Dec. 3

Vs. Calgary, 7 p.m. Dec. 5