Golden Knights report: Team continues rare losing streak

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Golden Knights vs. Islanders

At a glance

RJ’s 3 stars

■ 3. Knights goaltender Robin Lehner — He gave his squad a warring accidental contempt facing a barrage of scoring chances successful the archetypal play and a third-period punishment kill. He finished with 24 saves.

■ 2. Islanders halfway Mathew Barzal — He was dazzling with the puck connected his instrumentality and scored a highlight-reel extremity successful the 3rd period. He was astatine the bottommost of the close faceoff ellipse but inactive elevated the puck past Lehner and into the net.

■ 1. Islanders goaltender Ilya Sorokin — The 26-year-old was fantabulous playing for the 2nd clip successful 2 nights. He made 42 saves, including 2 outstanding stops connected Knights close helping Keegan Kolesar successful the 2nd period.

Key play

Islanders close helping Josh Bailey’s first-period goal

The play itself wasn’t spectacular. A rebound bounced to Bailey by the near station and helium scored. But it was important due to the fact that of the spread it enactment the Knights in.

The Islanders are a spectacular antiaircraft squad and don’t springiness up leads easily. They were 48-11-9 entering Sunday’s crippled erstwhile scoring archetypal implicit the past 3 seasons. They were besides 41-2-4 erstwhile starring aft 2 periods, and Bailey’s extremity was the lone people done 40 minutes.

Key stat

5 — The fig of four-game losing streaks the Knights person had successful their past aft Sunday’s loss. It was besides the 4th clip they mislaid 4 games successful a enactment successful regulation.

The past clip that happened, from Jan. 7-14, 2020, the squad fired manager Gerard Gallant and hired Pete DeBoer. The Knights had ne'er mislaid 3 consecutive successful regularisation nether DeBoer entering this season.

Trotz returns

Sunday was the 3rd clip manager Barry Trotz appeared astatine T-Mobile Arena since winning the Stanley Cup astatine the rink with the Washington Capitals.

He joined the Islanders successful the 2018 offseason and has since led the squad to 3 playoff berths and 2 appearances successful the NHL semifinals.

“I deliberation that his teams conscionable respect him,” said Knights halfway Chandler Stephenson, who made his NHL debut nether Trotz and was portion of Washington’s Cup-winning team. “Not galore mistakes successful their game.”

Krebs gains audience

Knights rookie Peyton Krebs made his NHL debut past play without immoderate cardinal supporters.

COVID-19 restrictions meant his parents couldn’t question to spot his archetypal 4 games successful person. This season, however, his ma came for the Knights’ location opener and his dada arrived this week to spot him play astatine T-Mobile Arena.

“It’s been awesome having them here,” Krebs said. “It’s been special.”

Knights’ adjacent 10

At Colorado, 5 p.m. Oct. 26

At Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Oct. 27

Vs. Anaheim, 5 p.m. Oct. 29

At Maple Leafs, 4 p.m. Nov. 2

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