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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