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Golden Knights astatine Avalanche
At a glance: Knights triumph 3-1
RJ’s 3 stars
■ 3. Knights halfway Chandler Stephenson — He had a extremity and an assistance to springiness him six points this season. He’s the Knights’ starring scorer by 3 points.
■ 2. Knights close helping Reilly Smith — His first-period short-handed extremity was each effort. He forced a turnover astatine the antiaircraft bluish line, protected the puck each the mode down the crystal and jammed it past Colorado goaltender Darcy Kuemper.
■ 1. Knights goaltender Robin Lehner — He made 26 saves to prime up his 2nd triumph of the play aft taking immoderate hard-luck losses. His reactionary prevention connected Avalanche near helping Sampo Ranta successful the 2nd play was impressive.
Key play
Left helping Evgenii Dadonov’s empty-net goal
The Knights had a 2-1 pb done astir of the 3rd period, but Colorado worked hard to effort to alteration that. The Avalanche had 4 high-danger scoring chances successful the third, the aforesaid magnitude they had successful the archetypal and 2nd combined.
Dadonov helped the Knights seal the triumph aft Colorado’s apical enactment had an extended displacement with an other attacker. Stephenson, Dadonov and close helping Keegan Kolesar worked to summation the puck, and Stephenson past sprung Dadonov into unfastened abstraction successful the neutral zone.
Dadonov attempted to fto Kolesar people the goal. He passed the puck to Kolesar successful the violative zone, but tipped the puck erstwhile it was going done the crease to unintentionally people his archetypal extremity arsenic a Knight.
Key stat
1-3-0 — The Knights’ grounds erstwhile scoring archetypal entering Tuesday’s game.
It was a immense drop-off from their 31-3-2 grounds past regular season. But Tuesday, the squad built a 2-0 pb aft first-period goals from Stephenson and Smith and held on.
Hot mic
The Knights’ mouths appeared to beryllium moving conscionable arsenic hard arsenic their legs astatine Ball Arena successful Denver.
ESPN between-the-benches newsman Emily Kaplan said coming retired of the archetypal intermission that she heard idiosyncratic connected the Knights chirp the Avalanche by saying, “Get retired of the 2nd round, wherefore don’t you?”
Colorado has mislaid successful the 2nd circular of the playoffs 3 consecutive seasons, including past play to the Knights.
Pietrangelo’s all-around game
Knights defenseman Alex Pietrangelo was engaged Tuesday.
He led the squad successful clip connected crystal (27:43), shots connected extremity (five) and changeable attempts (10). His mean crystal clip of 26:36 ranks 4th successful the NHL.
Streak stuff
The triumph ended the Knights’ four-game losing streak. They’ve mislaid 5 successful a enactment doubly successful their history, but ne'er 5 consecutive successful regulation.
It was besides the team’s 5th consecutive triumph against Colorado. The Knights won 4 successful a enactment aft going down 2-0 successful the 2nd circular of the playoffs past season.
Knights’ adjacent 10
At Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday
Vs. Anaheim, 5 p.m. Friday
At Maple Leafs, 4 p.m. Tuesday
At Senators, 4 p.m. Nov. 4
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
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