It was an absolutely wild one in Climate Pledge Arena on Tuesday night, as the Golden Knights swept their brief road trip with a dominant 6-2 win over their expansion brethern in the Seattle Kraken. CPA remains one of only three active arenas we've never suffered a regulation loss at, and for the first time in a while (if ever), Vegas was able to run up the score on Joey Daccord.
It feels pretty, pretty nice to chase a goalie just four games into the season. However, one major incident put a pretty solid damper on the night, which was subsequently followed up by a rare event. Let's delve right into the night's happenings.
Pathetic behavior from Ben Meyers costs Vegas a white-hot Victor Olofsson
It's rare that you see me speaking this strongly on something or someone, but what Kraken forward Ben Meyers did on Tuesday was nothing short of absolute loser behavior. Halfway through the third period, with Vegas up 5-1 on the power play, Meyers did this:
Ben Meyers catches Victor Olofsson in an awkward position and injures him.
— Sound Of Hockey (@sound_hockey) October 7, 2026
Olofsson needed help getting off the ice. Looked pretty bad.
Meyers got a 5-minute major and a game misconduct for boarding. #SeaKraken #VegasBorn pic.twitter.com/hVZc6wk8Bc
Cross-check straight into the numbers, on a defenseless player, into the boards, resulting in injury, in a 5-1 game. Nothing short of a violent hit that fully deserved both the five-minute major and game misconduct for boarding, and will more than certainly deserve the suspension Meyers hopefully gets in the next day or two. We can only hope he doesn't see the ice for at least some solid fraction of however long Vic's out for. What an utter loser.
With Olofsson, it's a massive loss for a Golden Knights team that was relying on him to help pick up the slack left by Pavel Dorofeyev's departure. Vic had been filling that role in spades thus far, picking up two goals tonight pre-injury to bring him to four in four games. It's a little frightening how much this parallels his last tenure here, where he was also injured only a few games in; ideally, the aftermath is different this time, as he missed roughly 25 games as a result that season. With any updates unlikely until Thursday, we'll see what happens.
Mark Stone, noted fighter, gets the NHL's first Gordie Howe Hat Trick of the 2026-27 season
Captain Mark Stone is many things. A puck-possession wizard, a gifted Selke-calibre defensive winger, someone that can score nearly at will, and so on. What he is usually not, however, is a fighter; per HockeyFights.com, Stone had just six fights on record since his NHL debut in 2012. After Ben Meyers' ejection, however, someone needed to take the pound of flesh from Seattle in exchange for Victor, and it was the captain that stepped up.
Winning the fight was a pretty sweet result, but something else was briefly lost in the aftermath: with that five-minute fighting major, Stone earned himself the first Gordie Howe Hat Trick of the NHL season.
Prior to the fight, he'd picked up an assist on Tomas Hertl's first-period power-play goal, then added a short-handed goal of his own less than two minutes into the second period. For a guy who's not known for dropping the gloves often, it was a heck of a night and helped remind Seattle who was really running that game.
Thankfully, we don't see the Kraken again until January. Up next, it's Mitch Marner's former squad in the Maple Leafs on Thursday to kick off another homestand. Let's keep the (mostly) good vibes going!
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