Minnesota Wild vs Vegas Golden Knights
Regular season · Wednesday, March 3, 2021 · T-Mobile Arena
ATTSN-RM · FS-N+ · FS-WI
Game summary
The Vegas Golden Knights beat the Minnesota Wild 5-1 on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at T-Mobile Arena. The Wild outshot the Golden Knights 37-28.
Goals came from Alex Tuch, Jonathan Marchessault, Marcus Foligno, Mark Stone, Chandler Stephenson and William Karlsson.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 36 saves on 37 shots for the win; Cam Talbot stopped 23 of 27.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Alex Tuch (9)Cody Glass (6), Nicolas Hague (5)0–102:03 VGK
2nd period
Jonathan Marchessault (7)Alex Tuch (7), William Karlsson (10)0–205:03 VGK
Marcus Foligno (7)Ian Cole (2), Carson Soucy (5)1–209:58 MIN
3rd period
Mark Stone (5)Chandler Stephenson (6)1–311:08 VGK
Chandler Stephenson (6)Mark Stone (19), Max Pacioretty (7)1–416:38 VGK
William Karlsson (6)Nicolas Hague (6)1–517:41 VGK · EN
Team stats
MINVGK
37Shots on goal28
46%Faceoff %54%
0/3Power play0/2
6Penalty minutes8
23Hits25
17Blocked shots16
4Giveaways10
9Takeaways12
Penalties
- 1st 12:37
Ryan Reaves · interference2 min - 1st 16:27Shea Theodore · tripping2 min
- 2nd 02:57
Ian Cole · hooking2 min - 2nd 18:46Jordan Greenway · interference2 min
- 3rd 08:00Nicolas Hague · tripping2 min
- 3rd 09:59Alex Pietrangelo · roughing2 min
- 3rd 09:59Kevin Fiala · roughing2 min
Season series
Minnesota Wild
| 17Marcus FolignoL | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 1 | 15:12 |
| 21Carson SoucyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16:08 |
| 28Ian ColeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 4 | 18:37 |
| 7Nico SturmC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 11:47 |
| 13Nick BoninoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 15:05 |
| 14Joel Eriksson EkC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 19:56 |
| 18Jordan GreenwayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 16:58 |
| 22Kevin FialaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 | 17:10 |
| 26Gerry MayhewC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:28 |
| 27Nick BjugstadC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:59 |
| 36Mats ZuccarelloC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 19:35 |
| 37Kyle RauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 08:03 |
| 49Victor RaskC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 13:51 |
| 97Kirill KaprizovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 5 | 21:08 |
| 20Ryan SuterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 19:10 |
| 24Mathew DumbaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 3 | 23:16 |
| 25Jonas BrodinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 2 | 22:09 |
| 46Jared SpurgeonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 6 | 17:16 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33Cam TalbotG | L | 27 | 23 | 4 | .852 | 59:12 |
| 34Kaapo KahkonenG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 |
Vegas Golden Knights
| 20Chandler StephensonC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 16:02 |
| 61Mark StoneR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 15:53 |
| 71William KarlssonC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 18:30 |
| 89Alex TuchR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 17:06 |
| 14Nicolas HagueD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 16:02 |
| 9Cody GlassC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14:57 |
| 67Max PaciorettyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 6 | 15:03 |
| 81Jonathan MarchessaultC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 5 | 16:09 |
| 19Reilly SmithR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 18:07 |
| 28William CarrierL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:41 |
| 55Keegan KolesarR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:13 |
| 75Ryan ReavesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:44 |
| 92Tomas NosekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:45 |
| 2Zach WhitecloudD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 16:46 |
| 7Alex PietrangeloD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 2 | 25:22 |
| 23Alec MartinezD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 19:22 |
| 27Shea TheodoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 25:45 |
| 52Dylan CoghlanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:33 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Marc-Andre FleuryG | W | 37 | 36 | 1 | .973 | 60:00 |
| 35Oscar DanskG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 |