Golden Knights Feeling Blue Sunday When Rangers Whitewash VGK, 5-0
By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell
Well, country star Shania Twain cranked the siren to get the Golden Knights-Rangers game going. That seemed like the highlight Sunday for the 18,236 fans at the Big Ice House by the Strip, as things went downhill from there for the Knights and the Rangers knocked off the VGK, 5-0.
Knights forward Mark Stone said the team’s inability to capitalize on a quick start 11 minutes into the game cost the VGK.
What was more painful for the Golden Knights was the sight of their rookie, Cody Glass, getting checked into a corner by Rangers’ forward Brendan Lemieux and then receiving a swinging elbow from Lemieux on the back end of the check.
After several minutes, Glass was helped off the ice.
Golden Knights forward William Carrier, postgame:
There might have been 18,236 announced for attendance, but there was a healthy number of Blueshirts backers in T-Mobile Arena at the start of the 4 p.m. game. With 4:55 left in the game, a pass from a Rangers player deflected off a Golden Knights skate and the game mercifully ended for the Knights. Marc-Andre Fleury is back, but Malcolm Subban was in goal for the Knights.
Coach Gerard Gallant said he was pleased with the Knights’ effort in period one, but not in periods two and three.
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