VGK Fans Travel To SoCal, Enjoy Vegas 5-2 Win Over Anaheim Ducks Sunday Afternoon
By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
The Vegas Golden Knights are taking care of business.
Sweeping two games in downtown Los Angeles against the Kings. Sweeping two games in suburban Los Angeles in Anaheim against the Ducks.
That’s the game plan for the Golden Knights as Vegas and one-year division rival Colorado Avalanche are poised for a fight to the finish of this pandemic 56-game season to see who will be crowned West Division champs.
The Knights’ winning ways continued in Southern California on Sunday afternoon with a 5-2 win over Anaheim behind goals by Max Pacioretty (22), Alex Pietrangelo (4), Nic Roy (5) and Mark Stone (15), who took a gorgeous thread-the-needle pass from defenseman Shea Theodore and deked Anaheim goalie John Gibson for the tally with less than two minutes left in the middle stanza.
Here’s Roy, postgame on the bottom six forwards chipping in:
Alex Tuch added an empty-netter for the VGK.
VGK goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury picked up the win as the Knights improved to 31-11-1 after 44 games, with a dozen games left in this COVID-19 pandemic season. It was the Knights’ sixth straight win. The Knights and Colorado are now tied for first place in the West Division. “We’re trying to hunt down Colorado,” VGK coach Pete DeBoer said after the game.
With the Ducks’ arena about four hours and change from Las Vegas by car, Golden Knights fans made the pilgrimage to Southern California for the 1 PM game.
Superfan Lan Beyster, for example, said she and a friend bought individual tickets for $169 a piece, while she noted a friend sat in a different section with tickets bought for $119 each.
The Golden Knights turn around and play the San Jose Sharks Monday at 7PM as 41-year-old Patrick Marleau plays a historic game with his 1,768th career game, breaking the record of NHL legend Gordie Howe. Marleau broke into the league in 1997. Marleau has scored 1,196 points (566 goals, 630 assists) in his 1,767 NHL games.
