By james art LAS VEGAS (AP) — Keegan Kolesar had two goals and an assist and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Calgary Flames 5-0 on Monday night.
Vegas shut out the home team 4-0, outscoring their opponents 24-8 during the impressive stretch. Kolesar recorded his first career multi-goal game.
Alex Pietrangelo, Mark Stone and Nick Roy also scored, and Adin Hill made 16 saves in the team’s first shutout of the season.
Dan Vladar made 31 saves for the Flames.
EXECUTION
Flames: Entered with the fourth-lowest faceoff percentage (44.9 percent) and was even worse Monday, winning just 42.1 percent of faceoffs.
Golden Knights: Per Money Puck, the top line of Stone, Jack Eichel and Ivan Barbashev has produced 13 goals during 5-on-5 play, the most in the NHL for a single line combination.
KEY MOMENT
Eichel intercepted a Brayden Pachal pass through the neutral zone early in the second period, entered Vegas’ offensive territory and dropped a drophand pass to Stone, who was there to fire it past Vladar for a 2-0 lead.
KEY STAT
Calgary forward Mikael Backlund skated in his 999th NHL game. He made his NHL debut on January 8, 2009. He is on track to become the 19th player of Swedish descent to skate in 1,000 NHL games.
NEXT
Flames: Visit Utah Hockey Club on Wednesday.
Golden Knights: Visit the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday.
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AP NHL:
Wg Ramirez, Associated Press