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Vegas Golden Knights: Five Best Regular Season Games

By Richard Cardinale

LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 10: (L-R) Nate Schmidt #88, Luca Sbisa #47, William Carrier #28, and Tomas Nosek #92 of the Vegas Golden Knights celebrate after scoring a goal during their inaugural regular-season home opener against the Arizona Coyotes at T-Mobile Arena on October 10, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/NHLI via Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 10: (L-R) Nate Schmidt #88, Luca Sbisa #47, William Carrier #28, and Tomas Nosek #92 of the Vegas Golden Knights celebrate after scoring a goal during their inaugural regular-season home opener against the Arizona Coyotes at T-Mobile Arena on October 10, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/NHLI via Getty Images) /
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5) March 18th, 2018 Game #72 Vegas Golden Knights def Calgary Flames 4-0

LAS VEGAS, NV – MARCH 18: William Karlsson #71 of the Vegas Golden Knights scores the first of his three goals in the second period against Mike Smith #41 of the Calgary Flames during their game at T-Mobile Arena on March 18, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NV – MARCH 18: William Karlsson #71 of the Vegas Golden Knights scores the first of his three goals in the second period against Mike Smith #41 of the Calgary Flames during their game at T-Mobile Arena on March 18, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) /

I know what many of you are thinking. Why would he choose this game? The parameters of this game were huge for the Flames, but the Golden Knights also needed to have this one.

The team came into this game losing their worst games of the year 8-3 against New Jersey and followed that with a lousy effort in a 4-2 loss to the Minnesota Wild. While they still had a pretty firm hold on the division, the team needed to get back on track in a big way. The Flames came out strong, but they couldn’t find a way to get one past Marc-Andre Fleury. The Golden Knights once again took a while to break the ice but eventually in the second period, that’s precisely what they did.

Colin Miller scored the first goal of the game from the blue line and gave Vegas a 1-0 lead in the second period. The goal woke the crowd up and most importantly woke the team up as well. From that point on, it was the William Karlsson show at T-Mobile Arena.

Karlsson scored not one, not two but three goals in a span of eight and a half minutes in the middle frame and put the Golden Knights up to a comfortable 4-0 lead. This was Karlsson’s second hat trick of the season, but this time it was a natural hat trick.

The Golden Knights went on to beat the Flames 4-0 and put those past losses in the rearview mirror. Even though Karlsson stole the show, it was Fleury who staved off the Flames in the early portion of the game.

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