Golden Knights report: Fast start for naught in loss to Blues

Golden Knights vs. Blues

Blues triumph 5-2

RJ’s 3 stars

■ 3. Knights winger Reilly Smith — He continued his blistery run, converting connected a breakaway successful the archetypal play to enactment the Knights up 2-0. Smith has scored successful 3 consecutive games and has six goals successful his past 7 outings.

■ 2. Blues winger David Perron — His puck-protection skills were connected afloat show for St. Louis’ archetypal extremity and helium finished with 2 assists. In 16 vocation games against his erstwhile club, Perron has 5 goals and 7 assists.

■ 1. Blues defenseman Justin Faulk — Forced a turnover by Nic Roy on the wall, starring to a breakaway and the go-ahead extremity successful the archetypal period. Faulk besides added an assistance and had a plus-1 standing successful 22:25 of crystal time.

Key play

Ryan O’Reilly’s first-period goal

Knights goalie Robin Lehner made a bully halt connected guardant Jordan Kyrou midway done the archetypal period, but was beaten seconds aboriginal by St. Louis’ skipper from a atrocious space to commencement the Blues’ comeback.

Perron fought disconnected defenseman Brayden McNabb and held onto the puck earlier uncovering O’Reilly stationed connected the extremity enactment to Lehner’s left.

O’Reilly’s one-timer would person gone done the crease, but alternatively banked disconnected the wrong of Lehner’s close skate for his archetypal extremity since Oct. 23. That was the archetypal of 5 unanswered goals by the Blues.

Key stat

6-5 — The Knights’ grounds erstwhile scoring the archetypal goal. That’s a melodramatic quality from past play erstwhile they were 31-3-2 erstwhile scoring first.

Stephenson ends slump

Chandler Stephenson remains the Knights’ starring scorer but experienced his archetypal goal-scoring drought of the play during the erstwhile 7 games.

That ended Monday erstwhile helium opened the scoring 36 seconds into the archetypal period.

Blues goalie Jordan Binnington couldn’t grip Alex Pietrangelo’s thrust from the point, and Stephenson was near unsocial successful beforehand of the nett to crook and sound successful his archetypal extremity since Nov. 6.

Stephenson had 17 points (six goals, 11 assists) successful 19 games.

Knights’ adjacent 10

At Nashville, 5 p.m. Wednesday

Vs. Edmonton, 4 p.m. Saturday

At Anaheim, 7 p.m. Dec. 1

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

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

Vs. Dallas, 7 p.m. Dec. 8

Vs. Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Dec. 10

Vs. Minnesota, 6 p.m. Dec. 12

At Boston, 4 p.m. Dec. 14

At New Jersey, 4 p.m. Dec. 16