The Golden Knights fell behind just 40 seconds into the game when Predators forward Ryan O\u2019Reilly won an offensive-zone draw and quickly slid the puck back to Steven Stamkos, who buried a one-timer past Akira Schmid to give Nashville an early lead. Statistically, it\u2019s a significant advantage for the Predators, who are 15-5-4 this season when scoring first.<\/p>\n
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Vegas dictated the pace for much of the opening frame. By the 13-minute mark, the Golden Knights had outshot the Predators 15\u20132, yet Nashville remained the only team on the board.<\/p>\n
Stamkos was called for hooking Jack Eichel with 5:28 remaining in the period, giving Vegas its first power play of the game. Entering the man advantage, the Golden Knights were 0-for-5 on the power play over their last two games, and that drought continued. Despite several quality chances in front, including a sharp wrister from Mitch Marner that was gloved by Annunen and another opportunity that rang off the crossbar, Vegas came up empty.<\/p>\n
At the end of 20 minutes, the Preds held a 1-0 lead despite getting outshot 21-4 by the Golden Knights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Golden Knights fell behind just 40 seconds into the game when Predators forward Ryan O\u2019Reilly won an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5129],"tags":[2831,25579,149,5317,5,1041,533,2409,4,2410,3671,1489,2911,74,39,5316],"class_list":["post-515354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vegas-golden-knights","tag-akira-schmid","tag-annunen","tag-golden-knights","tag-goldenknights","tag-hockey","tag-jack-eichel","tag-mitch-marner","tag-nashville","tag-nhl","tag-predators","tag-ryan-oreilly","tag-steven-stamkos","tag-the-predators","tag-vegas","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-vegasgoldenknights"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116268734235662519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}