Mark Stone leaves early in Golden Knights’ loss to Lightning

The Golden Knights allowed 3 unanswered goals Tuesday and mislaid 4-3 to the NHL-leading Tampa Bay Lightning successful beforehand of an announced assemblage of 18,217 astatine T-Mobile Arena.

Lightning guardant Steven Stamkos scored connected a powerfulness play with 9:47 remaining, arsenic Tampa Bay rallied from a 3-1 shortage to drawback the Knights’ five-game winning streak.

Mark Stone had 2 goals for the Knights earlier leaving with 13 minutes remaining successful the 2nd play due to the fact that of an evident injury. He collided with Tampa Bay’s Mathieu Joseph aboriginal successful the archetypal play and was concisely shaken up but stayed successful the game.

Nicolas Roy scored a spectacular extremity astatine 8:10 of the 2nd period, dancing done 3 defenders to enactment the Knights up 3-1.

Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and Anthony Cirelli scored 43 seconds isolated precocious successful the 2nd for Tampa Bay to necktie the crippled 3-3. Gabriel Fortier enactment the Lightning up astatine 6:05 of the archetypal play with his archetypal vocation NHL goal, capitalizing connected a turnover.

The Knights played without defenseman Alex Pietrangelo and guardant Evgenii Dadonov aft each was placed successful NHL COVID-19 protocol pursuing the greeting skate. Defenseman Nic Hague and goalie Robin Lehner were scratched with undisclosed injuries and are listed arsenic time to day.

The crippled was the lone 1 played successful the NHL, arsenic the league and NHL Players’ Association agreed to statesman the vacation interruption aboriginal aft aggregate games this week were postponed for COVID-related reasons.

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