After a traumatic 24 hours or so, the Vegas Golden Knights put all the drama behind them to grind out a win against the Ottawa Senators.
With the bombshell that Peter DeBoer had replaced Gerard Gallant as Head Coach behind them, the Vegas Golden Knights did what they had to do in order to record their first win of this road trip.
It was a perfect start for the Knights who landed the first blow of the night just 34 seconds into the first period thanks to Paul Stastny, who played a game of tic-tac-toe with Mark Stone before unleashing a deadly wrister past Craig Anderson.
Stastny then returned the favor in the second period as he and Max Pacioretty grabbed helpers on Stone’s wraparound effort, with the forward tallying a goal in his first return to Ottawa since his blockbuster trade at last year’s Trade Deadline.
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It was a three-goal game early in the third thanks to Chandler Stephenson who intercepted a weak pass in the neutral zone before beating Anderson on a breakaway.
Vladislav Namestnikov did get Ottawa on the board with a quick one-timer, before Ryan Reaves effectively iced the game after William Carrier stripped the puck from Anderson from behind the net before feeding Reaves for the one-timer.
There was still time for one more Ottawa goal, though, and it came thanks to Connor Brown who took a dish from Colin White before snapping it past Marc-Andre Fleury on the power play.
It was a big win for the Vegas Golden Knights who snapped a four-game losing streak, and we had some takeaways from the game…