LOS ANGELES — Jack Eichel scored the one objective within the shootout and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-3 on Saturday night time to bounce again from their first lack of the season.
Mark Stone, Michael Amadio and William Carrier all scored in regulation for the Golden Knights, who improved to 8-0-1 one night time after a 4-3 additional time defeat to the Chicago Blackhawks.
“You want to cash in as many points as you can early in the season,” Carrier mentioned.
Logan Thompson made 29 saves by means of additional time earlier than stopping all three makes an attempt within the shootout. Thompson has saved 31 of 38 makes an attempt (81.6%) in eight profession shootouts.
“He likes the show, right?” Carrier mentioned of Thompson’s shootout prowess. “We kind of knew if we were going there, we had a good chance of winning. He loves it. I mean, he’s young, he’s got the energy, and it feels great.”
Drew Doughty, Alex Laferriere and Trevor Lewis every had a objective for the Kings, who’ve dropped 4 of 5 at dwelling to begin the season. Cam Talbot completed with 27 saves.
PHOTOS: Eichel scores in SO as Golden Knights bounce again from first loss, beat Kings 4-3
“It was a pretty even contest,” Lewis mentioned. “Obviously, shootout’s a shootout and anything can happen, but we fought hard. We would have liked to have come out with the two points.”
Doughty tied it up with 1:03 left within the third interval on a slap shot from the blue line by means of visitors, his third objective in two video games after securing a 5-4 comeback win at Arizona on Friday.
Stone put the Golden Knights forward 3-2 on the facility play 6:26 into the third, tucking his one-timer from the best circle into the highest netting. Vegas has scored at the least three targets in every of its first 9 video games.
After falling behind 2-0 early within the second on Lewis’ second objective in three video games, the Golden Knights lastly discovered their offensive contact with Amadio placing a rebound into an open web and Carrier placing his wrist shot off the submit and in for his first level of the season.
“We knew we had a lot of work to do,” Carrier mentioned. “It felt a lot like a playoff game out there.”
The Kings opened the scoring for the primary time in 4 dwelling video games when Laferriere adopted up Pierre-Luc Dubois’ rebound 13:13 into the primary. Playing on his twenty second birthday, Laferriere netted his second objective and level in eight profession video games.
It allowed Los Angeles to play with the early lead for the third time of their opening eight video games, though it took some alert goaltending from Talbot to show away Eichel’s breakaway lower than two minutes into the sport to keep away from one other deficit.
“We did a better job of not giving up too many Grade-A’s, and when we did Talbs was there to shut the door,” Lewis mentioned. “No, it was a good effort. We wish would have had both points, but we’ll move on.”
Kings heart Anze Kopitar performed in his 1,three hundredth profession sport, becoming a member of Hurricanes defenseman Brent Burns, Capitals heart Alex Ovechkin and Stars defenseman Ryan Suter as solely energetic gamers to succeed in the milestone.
UP NEXT
Golden Knights: Host Montreal on Monday night time.
Kings: At Toronto on Tuesday night time.
