Vegas Golden Knights at Winnipeg Jets

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Vegas Golden Knights

5-0-0

Final
5 - 3

Winnipeg Jets

1-3-0

Golden Knights beat Jets 5-3 for 5th straight win to open season

Logan Thompson sprawls out for sensational stick save

The Golden Knights are the first reigning champion to open a season with five straight wins since the 1985-86 Edmonton Oilers.

“Good teams find a way to win and we found a way to win,” Eichel said. “Obviously, we’ll take the two points tonight.”

After Eichel gave Vegas a 4-3 lead, Nicolas Roy capped the scoring with an empty-netter with 1:03 remaining.

Jonathan Marchessault, Brett Howden and Alec Martinez also scored for the Golden Knights. Logan Thompson stopped 36 shots.

“We know we’re not going to play our best every night, but a ton of credit goes to our goalie,” Eichel said. “And we found a way to score some goals down the stretch.”

Alex Iafallo scored twice for Winnipeg and Cole Perfetti added a goal. Laurent Brossoit made 22 saves.

“It’s frustrating to lose, obviously,” Iafallo said. “You want to win every game but we are just going to stay positive. I feel like we are doing a lot of good things. We need to clean up some mistakes but, at the same time, we are just going to keep close moving, climbing that mountain.”

The games was a rematch of Vegas' 4-1 series victory last season in the first round of the playoffs.

UP NEXT

Golden Knights: At Chicago on Saturday night.

Jets: At Edmonton on Saturday night.

Regular Season Series

VGK leads series 1-0

Scoring Summary

Goal	1st Period 1:30	Alex Iafallo Goal (2) Snap Shot, assists: Josh Morrissey (4), Nino Niederreiter (2)
Goal	1st Period 17:42	Jonathan Marchessault Goal (2) Slap Shot, assists: Chandler Stephenson (4), Shea Theodore (2)
Goal	2nd Period 0:49	Brett Howden Goal (1) Tip-In, assists: Mark Stone (4)
Goal	2nd Period 15:27	Alec Martinez Goal (1) Wrist Shot, assists: William Karlsson (4), Paul Cotter (2)
Goal	2nd Period 16:00	Cole Perfetti Goal (1) Backhand, assists: Vladislav Namestnikov (2), Nikolaj Ehlers (1)
Goal	3rd Period 11:32	Alex Iafallo Goal (3) Snap Shot, assists: Mark Scheifele (2), Nikolaj Ehlers (2)
Goal	3rd Period 15:24	Jack Eichel Goal (3) Wrist Shot, assists: Mark Stone (5), Shea Theodore (3)
Goal	3rd Period 18:57	Nicolas Roy Goal (2) Wrist Shot, assists: Shea Theodore (4)

Statistics

VGK		WPG
17	Blocked Shots	22
23	Hits	25
9	Takeaways	9
27	Shots	39
2	Power Play Goals	1
2	Power Play Opportunities	2
100.0	Power Play Percentage	50.0
0	Short Handed Goals	0
0	Shootout Goals	0
28	Faceoffs Won	19
59.6	Faceoff Win Percent	40.4
12	Giveaways	13
2	Total Penalties	2
4	Penalty Minutes	4