The Vegas Golden Knights will head out on the road with two consecutive wins after beating the Arizona Coyotes 2-1 in a shootout on Friday night.
It was an impressive win over one of the best teams in the Pacific Division for the Vegas Golden Knights, who will now head out to the East Coast for a three-game road trip.
And it was needed to given that the Golden Knights had gone 4-6-3 in November prior to Friday, and it was around this time last year that they embarked on a run and carved out winning records in December and January.
They have showed signs that they could be on the cusp of hitting the peak of their powers in the last two games, and they really impressed against the Coyotes.
The Knights dominated puck possession at times and got on the board in the second period thanks to Alex Tuch‘s goal on the power play.
Arizona did strike back, however, and they made it a tied game when Jakob Chychrun walked in down the left side and fired a laser past Malcolm Subban.
Both goalies stood on their heads in the third period and in overtime, taking the game to a shootout where Jonathan Marchessault was the only player to score in the first two rounds.
Subban had made two big saves and, even though he couldn’t stop a shot from Christian Dvorak, the work was already done and that was confirmed when Alex Tuch pulled off a filthy move to convert the winning goal in the shootout.
Let’s go through our biggest takeaways from the Vegas Golden Knights’ 2-1 shootout success over the Arizona Coyotes…