Vegas Golden Knights vs Carolina Hurricanes
Regular season · Sunday, January 21, 2018 · PNC Arena
ATTSN-RM · FS-CR
Game summary
The Vegas Golden Knights beat the Carolina Hurricanes 5–1 on Sunday, January 21, 2018 at PNC Arena. The Golden Knights outshot the Hurricanes 33–28.
Goals came from Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, Colin Miller, Jonathan Marchessault, Jaccob Slavin, James Neal and Brendan Leipsic.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 27 saves on 28 shots for the win; Scott Darling stopped 5 of 8.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (5)William Carrier (2), Alex Tuch (13)1–002:55 VGK
Colin Miller (6)David Perron (27), Erik Haula (17)2–012:20 VGK · 
Jonathan Marchessault (17)William Karlsson (15), Brayden McNabb (8)3–012:59 VGK
Jaccob Slavin (4)Jeff Skinner (16), Justin Williams (21)3–119:15 CAR ·
2nd period
James Neal (21)Brad Hunt (9), Colin Miller (17)4–113:42 VGK ·
3rd period
Brendan Leipsic (2)Colin Miller (18)5–110:20 VGK
Team stats
VGKCAR
3328
37%63%
2/41/4
1010
2124
146
17
1111
Penalties
- 3:08 into the first period
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare · tripping2 min - 11:34 into the first period
Justin Faulk · interference2 min - 13:12 into the first periodBench · delaying game bench face off violation2 min
- 19:01 into the first periodJonathan Marchessault · roughing2 min
- 19:01 into the first periodElias Lindholm · roughing2 min
- 19:01 into the first periodJonathan Marchessault · roughing2 min
- 0:33 into the second periodJustin Faulk · interference2 min
- 12:04 into the second periodVictor Rask · slashing2 min
- 19:30 into the second periodJustin Williams · high sticking2 min
- 6:51 into the third periodErik Haula · hooking2 min
Season series
Vegas Golden Knights
| 6Colin MillerD | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 7 | 18:39 |
| 13Brendan LeipsicL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 11:43 |
| 18James NealL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 13:42 |
| 28William CarrierL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 11:51 |
| 41Pierre-Edouard BellemareL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 14:02 |
| 56Erik HaulaL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15:17 |
| 57David PerronL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 15:18 |
| 71William KarlssonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 19:02 |
| 81Jonathan MarchessaultC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:20 |
| 89Alex TuchR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 15:00 |
| 3Brayden McNabbD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 20:24 |
| 77Brad HuntD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 16:11 |
| 19Reilly SmithR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 17:16 |
| 21Cody EakinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 13:00 |
| 24Oscar LindbergC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 13:43 |
| 5Deryk EngellandD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 23:34 |
| 27Shea TheodoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 18:46 |
| 88Nate SchmidtD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 20:58 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Marc-Andre FleuryG | W | 28 | 1 | .964 |
| 30Malcolm SubbanG | 0 | 0 | – |
Carolina Hurricanes
| 14Justin WilliamsR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15:49 |
| 53Jeff SkinnerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 19:02 |
| 74Jaccob SlavinD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 23:48 |
| 7Derek RyanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 17:45 |
| 11Jordan StaalC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:19 |
| 16Marcus KrugerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 12:24 |
| 21Lee StempniakR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:14 |
| 23Brock McGinnL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:08 |
| 28Elias LindholmC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:24 |
| 34Phillip Di GiuseppeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 11:05 |
| 42Joakim NordstromC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 13:17 |
| 49Victor RaskC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 16:55 |
| 86Teuvo TeravainenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13:35 |
| 5Noah HanifinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 19:18 |
| 6Klas DahlbeckD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:29 |
| 27Justin FaulkD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 20:38 |
| 55Roland McKeownD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 14:45 |
| 57Trevor van RiemsdykD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 20:46 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Cam WardG | 25 | 2 | .920 | |
| 33Scott DarlingG | L | 8 | 3 | .625 |