Golden Knights' Woes Continue; Losing Streak Extends To Four With 3-1 Loss to Canucks
Vegas Golden Knights have lost five straight at home; allowed a goal in 13 of last 15 periods.
Stephen R. Sylvanie - USA TODAY Sports - Golden Knights' Woes Continue; Losing Streak Extends To Four With 3-1 Loss to CanucksThe Vegas Golden Knights continue to trend in the other direction, losing its fifth straight game at home with a 3-1 loss to the Vancouver Canucks at T-Mobile Arena on Thursday.
Michael Amadio scored, while Adin Hill made 32 saves for Vegas, which fell to 33-23-7 on the season.
"At the end of the day, our game is off. We haven’t played together as a group very often. It’s starting to show. It really does against good teams. We’re a second off in our execution," Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said."Our puck support. It’s just not clean. We’re not clean. This time of the year, these teams are humming along. It’s too good a league. We got to get cleaner and got to get together as a group."
The game started off poorly for Vegas, as they were on the power play for six consecutive minutes, resulting in a 1-0 deficit. Then 55 seconds later, the Canucks lead was extended to 2-0, prompting Vegas to rally again.
“I don’t think it helped that we’re chasing the game early,” Cassidy said. “We have to start digging in after the first negative thing that happens to us and bounce back. Get through it. We haven’t been able to do that."
Amadio cut the lead to one with a wrist shot from the point.
“There were definitely times when we controlled and we got pucks in and got them back,” defenseman Shea Theodore said. “We had some good looks. (Jack Eichel) got robbed earlier. Those are the little things we can take from it.”
The Golden Knights, however, gave up another goal at the 15:58 mark when Connor Garland collected a rebound in front of Hill and put it into the net.
The night saw the debut of a pair of new Vegas players: Noah Hanifin and Anthony Mantha. Mantha played 15:14 with four penalty minutes, while Hanifin had two shots in 21:33 of ice time.
Cassidy said it was too early to evaluate their play.
“I won’t evaluate them. I’d say this even with a call up. I don’t think it’s fair,” Cassidy said. “Especially a game like tonight where we didn’t do enough as a team. Let them play a few games.”
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