Tomas Hertl produced two goals and two assists and Mark Stone added a goal and two assists as the Vegas Golden Knights snapped a three-game losing streak by cruising to a 6-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday in Las Vegas.
It was the fourth career four-point game for Hertl, his career high.
Pavel Dorofeyev had a goal and an assist, Alex Pietrangelo dished off three assists and Alexander Holtz and Ivan Barbashev added a goal apiece as coach Bruce Cassidy picked up his 100th career win with the Golden Knights (100-53-18).
Ilya Samsonov made 31 saves for the victory.
Warren Foegele scored a goal and David Rittich finished with 24 saves for Los Angeles, which was playing the finale of a season-opening seven-game road trip necessitated by arena renovations. The Kings, who had a two-game winning streak snapped, are 3-2-2 heading into their home opener against the San Jose Sharks on Thursday.
Vegas took a 1-0 lead at the 9:07 mark of the first period on a power-play goal by Hertl, who backhanded in a rebound of his own shot from the low slot.
Stone made it 2-0 with another power-play goal less than five minutes later. Noah Hanifan took a point shot above the left circle that deflected first off Hertl’s stick and then off Stone’s and went into the net. It was Stone’s third goal of the season.
Dorofeyev extended the lead to 3-0 near the end of the period when his rebound caromed off the post and then the leg of Kings defenseman Brandt Clarke and into the net for his third goal.
Los Angeles failed to convert on a four-minute power play late in the second period, during which Alex Turcotte fired a shot off the crossbar. However, the Kings got within 3-1 with 51.1 seconds left in the second when Joel Edmundson’s point shot bounced off the backboards right to Foegele by the left side of the net, where he tapped in his first goal.
Vegas then blew the game open with three third-period goals. Holtz one-timed Pietrangelo’s crossing pass at 2:59 for his first of the season. Hertl tapped a backdoor rebound of Pietrangelo’s shot into a vacated net at 8:26, his third of the campaign. Barbashev scored his team-leading fifth goal at 13:25.
–Field Level Media
