The Vegas Golden Knights overcame the Calgary Flames and a rave-induced ice delay to improve to 2-0 with their new coach.<\/p>\n
It was also a banner night for Mitch Marner.<\/p>\n
The Knights\u2019 star winger recorded his first hat trick with the team to help defeat the Flames 6-3 at T-Mobile Arena on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Marner added two assists for a season-high five points, as the Knights (34-26-16) have back-to-back wins under new coach John Tortorella.<\/p>\n
Winger Brett Howden gave the Knights a 4-3 lead with 7:41 remaining, and Ivan Barbashev added an insurance tally with 5:01 to go.<\/p>\n
Marner completed the hat trick on a wrap around with 1:29 left.<\/p>\n
Pavel Dorofeyev added his team-leading 35th goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Goaltender Carter Hart made 19 saves in his return after missing nearly three months with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n
All of that happened along with a lengthy 25-minute delay because of ice issues before the start of the third period.<\/p>\n
The Knights\u2019 TV broadcast reported that the zamboni potentially scraped the ice and created a hole on the City of Las Vegas decal on the visitor\u2019s side of the rink.<\/p>\n
Ice crew members tended to the ice with fire extinguishers while smoothing out the ice, which erased a noticeable part of the V in \u201cVegas.\u201d<\/p>\n
All this happened while the Knights\u2019 intermission nightclub playlist was playing in the background.<\/p>\n
Play resumed at 9:32 p.m., and the use of the fire extinguishers was symbolic because the Knights doused the Flames in the third.<\/p>\n
Calgary\u2019s first three goals each came off a 2-on-1 off a Knights turnover.<\/p>\n
Kaedan Korczak\u2019s turnover near the defensive blue line allowed Calgary center Morgan Frost plenty of time to shoot and beat Hart at 7:41 of the first for a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Flames winger Blake Coleman\u2019s two goals also came off odd-man rushes \u2014 once after Dorofeyev lost sight of the puck, scoring at 4:38, then again off a bad pinch by Rasmus Andersson at 12:11.<\/p>\n
Both offset Marner\u2019s two goals, which gave him his second multi-goal game against the Flames this season. He tied it 1-1 at 1:47 after deflecting Shea Theodore\u2019s shot, then tied at 6:42 off a feed from Andersson in front of the net. Dorofeyev scored with 3:39 left in the period on a one-time power-play goal to tie it 3-3.<\/p>\n
Former Knights defenseman Zach Whitecloud played 24:38 in his first game against his former team. Whitecloud was traded to Calgary on Jan. 18 for Andersson.<\/p>\n
The Knights went 2-0-2 on their four-game homestand. Now, they begin a four-game road trip Saturday against the Edmonton Oilers in a pivotal Pacific Division clash.<\/p>\n
Contact Danny Webster at dwebster@reviewjournal.com.<\/a> Follow @DannyWebster21<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vegas Golden Knights overcame the Calgary Flames and a rave-induced ice delay to improve to 2-0 with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,896,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-539932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary-flames","8":"tag-calgary","9":"tag-calgary-flames","10":"tag-calgaryflames","11":"tag-flames","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116345294872652652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539932","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=539932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}