Golden Knights report: New player gets packed schedule

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Golden Knights vs. Kraken

At a glance

Knights triumph 4-2

RJ’s 3 stars

3. Knights close helping Evgenii Dadonov — He scored his 3rd extremity of the play to necktie the crippled precocious successful the 2nd period. His enactment finished plus-two.

2. Knights defenseman Alex Pietrangelo — He scored successful the archetypal play for his 3rd extremity successful 4 games. He besides picked up an assist, giving him 7 points successful his past six games.

1. Knights defenseman Shea Theodore — He assisted connected Dadonov’s game-tying goal, past scored the crippled winner. It was his 2nd multipoint crippled of the season.

Key play

Dadonov’s game-tying second-period goal.

The Kraken took a 2-1 pb with 30.7 seconds near aft a speedy changeable from halfway Yanni Gourde. A beauteous adjacent play looked arsenic if it was going to tilt Seattle’s way.

The Knights had an contiguous response. Theodore threw the puck astatine the net, and goaltender Chris Driedger couldn’t corral it. Left helping William Carrier kicked it crossed the crease to Dadonov, who tipped it successful disconnected his backhand to necktie the game.

16 seconds is each it took for Dadonov to adjacent things up for the @GoldenKnights. 👀 pic.twitter.com/8olx0gVWVI

— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) November 10, 2021

The extremity came 14.8 seconds aft Gourde’s. The Knights erased what looked similar a surefire intermission shortage and went into the locker country tied. They came retired flying successful the 3rd play and took the pb 30 seconds in.

Key stat

87.1 — Seattle’s squad prevention percent entering Tuesday’s game, which ranked past successful the NHL.

In his archetypal commencement of the season, Driedger did small to animate assurance helium tin crook that around. He stopped 19 of 23 shots. The archetypal 2 goals were preventable. Pietrangelo’s went disconnected Driedger’s mitt and into the net. And Driedger had a accidental to halt Dadonov’s earlier it adjacent began by squeezing Theodore’s changeable and freezing the puck.

Eichel appears

Center Jack Eichel attended his archetypal crippled astatine T-Mobile Arena arsenic a Knight.

Eichel was traded from the Buffalo Sabres connected Thursday and arrived successful Las Vegas connected Sunday. He’s had a packed itinerary. On Monday, helium met manager Pete DeBoer, had his archetypal quality conference, attended a shot hockey clinic and hung retired with goaltender Robin Lehner. On Tuesday, helium welcomed fans connected T-Mobile Arena’s video board, cranked the rally siren earlier puck driblet and appeared connected the ESPN+ broadcast during the game.

They are backmost 😂. Vegas get acceptable 🐼 @Cosmopolitan_LV @eatSTK substance for the crippled tomorrow. #chickenwings pic.twitter.com/xjQUW8IH96

— Robin Lehner (@RobinLehner) November 9, 2021

Eichel volition permission Las Vegas earlier Friday to have country to hole a herniated disk successful his neck. He’s expected to beryllium acceptable to play successful 3 to 5 months.

“Very absorbing guy,” DeBoer said. “He was truly impressive. For me, truly optimistic astir however he’s going to travel back, erstwhile he’s going to travel backmost and however motivated he’s going to beryllium erstwhile helium gets there.”

Knights’ adjacent 10

Vs. Minnesota, 7 p.m. Thursday

Vs. Vancouver, 7 p.m. Saturday

Vs. Carolina, 7 p.m. Tuesday

Vs. Detroit, 7 p.m. Nov. 18

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

Contact Ben Gotz astatine bgotz@reviewjournal.com. Follow @BenSGotz connected Twitter.

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