Keegan Kolesar scores twice as the Golden Knights beat the Flames 5-0

Keegan Kolesar had 2 goals and an assist, and nan Vegas Golden Knights hit nan Calgary Flames 5-0

LAS VEGAS -- Keegan Kolesar had 2 goals and an assist, and nan Vegas Golden Knights hit nan Calgary Flames 5-0 connected Monday night.

Vegas closed retired a 4-0 homestand, outscoring its opponents 24-8 during nan awesome stretch. Kolesar posted his first profession multigoal game.

Alex Pietrangelo, Mark Stone and Nic Roy besides scored, and Adin Hill made 16 saves successful nan team’s first shutout of nan season.

Dan Vladar made 31 saves for nan Flames.

Flames: Entered pinch nan fourth-lowest faceoff triumph percent (44.9%) and was moreover worse Monday, winning conscionable 42.1% of nan faceoffs.

Golden Knights: Per Money Puck, nan apical statement of Stone, Jack Eichel and Ivan Barbashev has produced 13 goals during 5-on-5 play, nan astir successful nan NHL for a single-line combination.

Eichel intercepted a Brayden Pachal pass done nan neutral area early successful nan 2nd period, skated into Vegas’ violative territory and backhanded a driblet walk to Stone, who was location to occurrence it past Vladar for a 2-0 lead.

Calgary guardant Mikael Backlund skated successful his 999th NHL game. He made his NHL debut connected Jan. 8, 2009. He is poised to go nan 19th subordinate of Swedish descent to skate successful 1,000 NHL contests.

The Flames sojourn Utah connected Wednesday. The Golden Knights play nan Kings successful Los Angeles connected Wednesday.

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