Golden Knights score 5 in 2nd, ease past Canadiens

Barbashev pushed it to 3-0 at 9:09. He completed off a give-and-go return move from Eichel on a 2-on-1 after Montreal ahead Juraj Slafkovsky turned over the puck contained in the Vegas blue line.

“If I put the puck down the wall, they don’t have a 2-on-0 on the opposite facet,” Slafkovsky stated.

Tanner Pearson made it 4-0 at 10:35 on a shot from the within fringe of the suitable face-off circle on a backhand move from Noah Hanifin.

Kolesar scored at 17:02 for a 5-0 lead. He scored stick facet on Montembeault, who dropped Zach Whitecloud’s shot from the purpose at his toes.

“Whenever you’re minus-4, I don’t even know what to say,” Slafkovsky stated. “You’ll be able to’t actually worsen, for my part, than tonight’s second interval. So you possibly can solely play higher and make higher selections with the puck as a result of that was simply silly.”

Emil Heineman reduce it to 5-1 with a power-play aim at 2:03 of the third interval. Jayden Struble scored at 13:03 to make it 5-2.

Eichel one-timed Barbashev’s cross-ice move on a 2-on-1 at 18:12 for the 6-2 remaining.

“That they had evening,” Cassidy stated. “Let’s face it, within the third interval we received off our sport, they pushed us. I do know it’s late, however on the finish of the day, good on them to make a play.”

NOTES: Eichel has 32 factors (seven objectives, 25 assists) in 21 video games. He’s the quickest participant in Golden Knights historical past to succeed in 30 factors in a season. Mark Stone received his thirtieth level in his twenty fourth sport in 2020-21. … It was Eichel’s fifteenth three-point sport with Vegas, tying William Karlsson for third in franchise historical past. Jonathan Marchessault had 25 three-point video games with the Golden Knights, and Stone has had 20. … Vegas’ earlier excessive for objectives in a interval this season was three, most just lately within the third interval of a 4-2 win on the Utah Hockey Membership on Nov. 15. … The Golden Knights scored 5 objectives within the first interval of a 6-2 win on the Vancouver Canucks on March 9, 2019, and within the third interval of a 7-2 win towards the Anaheim Geese on Feb. 5, 2023. … Vegas defenseman Nicolas Hague performed 15:09 and had one shot and 4 hits after lacking eight video games with an undisclosed damage.