Canucks' power play dooms Golden Knights to second straight loss at home


LAS VEGAS — JT Miller had a goal and two assists as the Vancouver Canucks beat the Golden Knights 5-1 on Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena.

Vancouver won its second straight on a three-game trip that ends Sunday in San Jose. For the Golden Knights, it was the second consecutive home loss and came in back-to-back games.

Brock Boeser, Elias Pettersson, Andrei Kuzmenko and Bo Horvat also scored for the Canucks. Spencer Martin made 26 saves.

Jonathan Marchessault scored for the Golden Knights. Logan Thompson stopped 31 shots.

Prior to Saturday, the Golden Knights were 11-1-3 against the Canucks, including a 5-4 win in Vancouver on Nov. 21.

"We knew they played yesterday, and we knew they lost. We knew they were going to come out hard, so we needed to be ready from the start and I think we did," Pettersson said. "We played a good 60 minutes of hockey."

Something the Golden Knights did not, in arguably their worst performance this season. Since opening the season an NHL-best 13-2-0, the Golden Knights have lost five of last eight, with four of the losses at home.

Vancouver opened a 2-0 first-period lead on power-play goals, one a Boeser deflection in front, and the second from Miller on a shot from the left circle.

The barrage of power-play goals continued in the second period, as Pettersson lasered a one-timer from the right dot to extend Vancouver's lead to three goals.

The Canucks have converted on the power play 19 times in 52 opportunities since Oct. 24. Their 36.5% conversion rate in that span ranks No. 1 in the league. Overall this season, Vancouver is second in the NHL on the power play at 29.3%.

"Special teams win us games," Pettersson said. "We played good 5-on-5 today, but we got three today on the power play, which is huge. And they didn't score on our PK (penalty kill), so special teams somewhat won us the game today."

The Canucks got a pair of even-strength goals in the second to make it 5-0.
First, it was Kuzmenko skating down the slot alone and burying Nils Aman's pretty feed from behind the net.

And with two seconds left in the second, it was Horvat, the team captain, taking Miller's pass from the crease and firing it past Thompson. The five-goal deficit sent the Golden Knights down the tunnel for intermission amidst a chorus of boos from an announced crowd of 18,004.

"The first seven, eight minutes, we were the better team," Knights coach Bruce Cassidy said. "We had some good looks. … In hindsight, when you're playing your fifth game in eight days, if one of those goes in, maybe it gives us some juice and we're not chasing the game. Their goalie made big saves. Then we got ourselves in penalty trouble, and didn't get the job done."

Marchessault ruined Martin's bid for Vancouver's first shutout with a goal late in the third period.
For Martin, it wasn't about allowing a late goal as much as it was about keeping the puck out of his net early on.

"It's important not to go down early on the road," Martin said. "They have a really awesome crowd here, so just to keep them quiet as long as we could and from there the guys took over."



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