Milestone goal helps Golden Knights top Canucks

Left helping Jonathan Marchessault scored a go-ahead, power-play extremity 8:24 into the 3rd period, and the Golden Knights defeated the Vancouver Canucks 7-4 astatine T-Mobile Arena connected Saturday.

The game-winning extremity was Marchessault’s 100th with the Knights, the astir successful squad history. It decided a back-and-forth crippled that featured skipper Mark Stone’s instrumentality from injury, defenseman Ben Hutton’s franchise debut and halfway Jake Leschyshyn’s archetypal NHL goal.

Marchessault scored his 101st extremity with the Knights aboriginal successful the 3rd period.

Saturday’s gathering was the archetypal betwixt the teams since their second-round playoff bid successful 2020 that the Knights won successful 7 games. They are 9-0-2 each clip against Vancouver.

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