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Golden Knights vs. Blue Jackets
RJ’s 3 stars
3. Blue Jackets goaltender Elvis Merzlikins — It’s lone fitting an Elvis puts connected a bully amusement successful Las Vegas. He stopped 32 shots successful his 2nd crippled astatine T-Mobile Arena. He had a 27-save shutout successful his archetypal Jan. 11, 2020.
2. Knights close helping Reilly Smith — He scored his 2nd short-handed extremity of the play and ninth of his vocation to necktie the crippled 2-2 successful the 3rd period. He has 5 goals successful his past six games.
1. Knights close helping Keegan Kolesar — The second-year guardant scored his archetypal extremity and added an assistance against the squad that drafted him. The Blue Jackets took Kolesar successful the 3rd circular successful 2015, but traded him to the Knights successful 2017.
Key play
The Knights’ punishment termination aft Kolesar tripped Columbus defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov 4:20 into the third.
They forced turnovers precocious successful the antiaircraft portion and got much scoring chances than the Blue Jackets. Smith scored, halfway Chandler Stephenson had a breakaway, and Kolesar fired the puck connected nett aft jumping retired of the punishment box.
The Knights person 5 power-play goals and 2 short-handed goals.
Key stat
5-1 — The Knights’ grounds connected their six-game homestand.
They outscored their opponents 24-16 during the agelong and moved into a playoff spot.
Jones debuts
Left helping Ben Jones connected Saturday became the sixth Knights subordinate to marque his NHL debut this season, aft near wings Pavel Dorofeyev and Paul Cotter, halfway Jake Leschyshyn, close helping Jonas Rondbjerg and defenseman Daniil Miromanov.
Jones was a seventh-round prime successful 2017. The 22-year-old’s parents and sister attended the game. Jones said his parents are British and “don’t truly cognize a full batch astir hockey,” but helium credited their enactment for helping him scope the NHL.
“Growing up, I had truly large ears, truthful they joked that they wanted to enactment maine successful a helmet to effort and pin them back,” said Jones, who was calved successful Waterloo, Ontario. “I deliberation that was conscionable the Canadian happening to do.”
Hockey Fights Cancer
The Knights held their yearly Hockey Fights Cancer nighttime and wore peculiar lavender jerseys for warmups that were auctioned off.
The proceeds were fixed to the Vegas Golden Knights Foundation. A information volition beryllium donated successful enactment of aboriginal detection successful the sanction of Silver Knights manager Manny Viveiros, who was diagnosed with prostate crab aft a grooming campy physical. Viveiros, expected to instrumentality a permission of lack successful December for surgery, said Friday helium was grateful to the enactment for its enactment and giving him clip to measure attraction options.
“It means everything to me,” Viveiros said. “Not lone the organization, but our teammates, our coaching unit and, much importantly, my household here, I’m truthful blessed to person specified a fantastic enactment group.”
Knights’ adjacent 10
At St. Louis, 5 p.m. Monday
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
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