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Slumping Golden Knights Fall To Vancouver, 3-1, Before Packed House Of 18,054 Thursday

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     Story by Alan Snel   Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell

The slumping Vegas Golden Knights welcomed two new players to their lineup Thursday night for their game against the Vancouver Canucks.

Defenseman Noah Hanifin, who took the spot of an injured Alec Martinez, and forward Anthony Mantha made their VGK debuts.

Noah Hanifin

 

Anthony Mantha

Just the facts: Vancouver 3 Vegas 1

Golden Knights goal scorers: Michael Amadio, his 12th of the season early in period two

Story line: Vegas continues its slumping ways as goalie Adin Hill went from Vezina-level play to mediocre goaltending. Vancouver’s second goal by Phillip Di Giuseppe in first period was a weak score as Giuseppe slid the puck under Hill’s left pad as the Canucks surged to a 2-0 lead in the first stanza. Quinn Hughes scored the Canucks’ first goal. After a VGK turnover ion period two, Hill couldn’t handle a rebound and Conor Garland picked up the puck and deposited it into the net for a 3-1 lead after two periods.

Attendance: 18,054. Fixed seats in T-Mobile Arena — 17,367

Shots on goal: Vancouver 35 Vegas 28

VGK Coach Bruce Cassidy postgame: https://twitter.com/GoldenKnights/status/1765987262515618134

Standings: Vegas occupies the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference.

 

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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