Vegas Golden Knights vs Arizona Coyotes
Preseason · Thursday, July 30, 2020 · Rogers Place
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Game summary
The Vegas Golden Knights beat the Arizona Coyotes 4–1 on Thursday, July 30, 2020 at Rogers Place. The Golden Knights outshot the Coyotes 27–23.
Reilly Smith scored twice. Taylor Hall, Alex Tuch and Nick Cousins also scored.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 22 saves on 23 shots for the win; Darcy Kuemper stopped 17 of 19.
| Goals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 VGK | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 27 |
 ARI | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 23 |
Scoring
1st period
Reilly Smith (3)William Karlsson (3)1–008:42 VGK · - Reilly Smith (4)Nick Cousins (2), Alex Tuch (2)2–016:23 VGK ·
3rd period
Taylor Hall (3)Christian Dvorak (4), Oliver Ekman-Larsson (4)2–109:14 ARI · 
Alex Tuch (2)Nick Cousins (3), Nicolas Roy (2)3–113:47 VGK
Nick Cousins (2)Nicolas Roy (3)4–119:47 VGK ·
Team stats
VGKARI
2723
45%55%
1/61/4
812
2927
1312
914
511
Penalties
- 5:04 into the first periodAlex Goligoski · tripping2 min
- 7:49 into the first periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 14:53 into the first periodJakob Chychrun · tripping2 min
- 3:56 into the second periodCarl Soderberg · tripping2 min
- 8:08 into the second periodNiklas Hjalmarsson · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 8:08 into the second periodNiklas Hjalmarsson · slashing2 min
- 13:14 into the second periodZach Whitecloud · holding2 min
- 4:03 into the third periodOliver Ekman-Larsson · slashing2 min
- 8:09 into the third periodTomas Nosek · cross checking2 min
- 10:19 into the third periodShea Theodore · slashing2 min
Vegas Golden Knights
| 21Nick CousinsC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 1 | 13:13 |
| 10Nicolas RoyC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | 14:13 |
| 19Reilly SmithR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 16:28 |
| 89Alex TuchR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 17:07 |
| 71William KarlssonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 16:48 |
| 20Chandler StephensonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:09 |
| 26Paul StastnyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:48 |
| 28William CarrierL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:03 |
| 61Mark StoneR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:26 |
| 72Gage QuinneyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 75Ryan ReavesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11:31 |
| 81Jonathan MarchessaultC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18:05 |
| 92Tomas NosekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:09 |
| 2Zach WhitecloudD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 18:36 |
| 3Brayden McNabbD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:58 |
| 15Jon MerrillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Nick HoldenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 14:14 |
| 23Alec MartinezD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 20:48 |
| 27Shea TheodoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 23:02 |
| 88Nate SchmidtD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 17:34 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Marc-Andre FleuryG | W | 23 | 1 | .957 |
| 90Robin LehnerG | 0 | 0 | .000 |
Arizona Coyotes
| 18Christian DvorakL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | 18:10 |
| 91Taylor HallL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 3 | 19:10 |
| 23Oliver Ekman-LarssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 19:44 |
| 8Nick SchmaltzC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:58 |
| 9Clayton KellerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 15:41 |
| 13Vinnie HinostrozaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11:12 |
| 15Brad RichardsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:35 |
| 21Derek StepanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:21 |
| 29Barrett HaytonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:19 |
| 34Carl SoderbergC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:26 |
| 36Christian FischerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:29 |
| 67Lawson CrouseL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:43 |
| 81Phil KesselC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:54 |
| 83Conor GarlandR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 16:53 |
| 4Niklas HjalmarssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:16 |
| 6Jakob ChychrunD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 20:06 |
| 33Alex GoligoskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 22:25 |
| 46Ilya LyubushkinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 55Jason DemersD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:23 |
| 82Jordan OesterleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:45 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32Antti RaantaG | 7 | 1 | .857 | |
| 35Darcy KuemperG | L | 19 | 2 | .895 |