Golden Knights Ride Fourth Line Hat Trick To Defeat Calgary Before 18,192 Saturday
By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
Photos by Steve Rosenthal
A fourth line hat trick helped the Vegas Golden Knights get back in the win column Saturday night as an announced crowd of 18,192 soaked up a VGK 6-2 win over the Calgary Flames.
Fourth liners Tomas Nosak, William Carrier and hitman/beerman Ryan Reaves each scored for the Knights.
Here’s Carrier post-game:
Rookie Cody Glass registered his second goal of the season to top off the 6-2 decision.
The win snapped a two-game losing streak for the Knights, which lost games to Boston at home Tuesday and to Arizona on the road Thursday.
Here’s Mark Stone post-game:
VGK goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 33 of 35 Calgary shots Saturday night.
After three home games, the Knights are averaging 18,334 fans a game — up slightly over the 18,319 a game from last season.
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It’s 5:45 p.m. and the Golden Knights fans are flooding into the T-Mobile Arena lobby.
Most pick up their game poster — tonight centerman Paul Stastny is the featured poster boy for tonight’s VGK-Calgary Flames game — follow the left escalator to the venue’s main concourse.
And it’s at the top of the escalator, where they hear the non-stop greetings of Arnold the usher who is rattling off salutations left and right to every fan who passes him.
“You da man,” he tells every boy.
“You’re a princess, ” he tell ever girl.
“C’mon, give me a high five,” he tells every adult.
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Fan photos tonight.
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