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Golden Knights Restore Order at T-Mobile Arena with 4-1 Win over Buffalo

As serious as Marc-Andre Fleury gets -- free donuts are on the line.

By ALAN SNEL

LVSportsBiz.com

 

LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell

 

Another sellout. In fact, 18,321 strong.

 

Another near Marc-Andre Fleury shutout. Krispy Kreme nearly had to hand out donuts by the dozens all around the Las Vegas Valley.

 

And the pre-game knight ceremony returned with Lee Orchard playing the knight and vanquishing a Buffalo Sabres character.

 

Order returned to the Fortress Tuesday as the Golden Knights registered their first home win of the young 2018-19 season with a 4-1 triumph over the Sabres after a choppy 2-4 start to the campaign.

 

VGK Coach Gerard Gallant was so happy after the game he even cracked a joke about William Karlsson scoring his first goal of the season: “Now the other 42 should come easy for him.”

 

The Stanley Cup Finalists were off to a ragged, low-scoring start to the franchise’s second season and Jonathan Marchessault — who is emerging as the guts of this hockey squad — said it best when he declared last week it was time to stop talking about season one.

 

Marchessault scored the first goal on a power play Tuesday evening and then added an open-net score to seal the deal.

Here’s Marchessault scoring VGK’s first goal tonight on a power play.

 

 

LVSportsBiz.com also caught up with Karlsson and Fleury after the game.

 

 

 

Golden Knights fans were smelling donuts as Fleury was rolling toward a shutout, which meant a dozen free Krispy Kreme donuts for fans in attendance under the VGK-Krispy Kreme partnership. But the Sabres spoiled the Wednesday morning sugar rush with a goal with less than a minute to play.

 

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Alan Snel: Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.
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