Kraken Adin Slope halted 32 of 33 shots and Chandler Stephenson had an objective and a help as the Vegas Brilliant Knights opened guard of their Stanley Cup title with a 4-1 triumph over the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday night in Las Vegas.
Kraken Jonathan Marchessault, Ivan Barbashev and Jack Eichel likewise scored objectives and Imprint Stone added two helps for Vegas, which raised its most memorable Stanley Cup flag in T-Versatile Field during a spectacular pregame function that saw the pennant rise out of a goliath gaming machine on the ice.
Jared McCann scored for Seattle, which is opening the season with a three-game excursion that forges ahead with Thursday at Nashville. Philipp Grubauer got done with 24 recoveries.
Vegas took a 1-0 lead on its originally shot of the time while Stephenson, chopping down the traditional, tapped Brett Howden’s saucer pass from the left circle inside the right post.
The Brilliant Knights expanded their lead to 2-0 at the 14:57 characteristic of the principal time frame when Kraken forward Brandon Tanev, attempting to put the puck behind his own net, had his pass redirect off the cutting edge of Marchessault’s stick and into the upper left corner of the objective beyond a frightened Grubauer. It denoted the fourth consecutive year that Marchessault, the Conn Smythe Prize champ in the 2023 Stanley Cup end of the season games, scored an objective in the season opener for Vegas.
Barbashev made it 3-0 at the 1:20 sign of the second time frame when he took a stretch pass from Brayden McNabb at the blue line, split a couple of Kraken protectors and afterward roofed a slap shot into the upper right corner of the net.
Seattle slice it to 3-1 halfway through the second time span while McCann, falling off a 40-objective season, took a pass from Jordan Eberle in the low opening and immediately snapped a wrist shot past Slope’s glove side.
Howden got a five-minute major and a coordinate punishment with 13:58 excess in the third period for an unlawful shoulder check to the head of Tanev in the impartial zone. However, the Kraken couldn’t profit by the following five-minute strategic maneuver with Slope dismissing six shots.
Eichel then, at that point, fixed the success for the Brilliant Knights with an unfilled net objective with 1:15 leftover.
Kraken forward Jared McCann was bemoaning after a to some degree messy, for the most part forgettable premiere night by the two groups about how his own crew appeared “a half second late all over the place” whenever given chances to change their fortunes.
To be sure, continuously moment of the center time of a 4-1 misfortune to the Vegas Brilliant Knights at T-Versatile Field, the Kraken had previously failed on a few potential open doors, let a few contradicting advances in behind them and ended up following by three objectives. McCann in the end got the guests on the board before the game’s most of the way mark, however the absence of execution at even-strength ultimately continued to the strategic maneuver and destined any opportunity of a rebound against the shielding Stanley Cup champions.
“I think we had a ton of good possibilities,” McCann said of a strategic maneuver that completed 0 for 4 and couldn’t exploit a five-minute significant punishment in the third when it was as yet a two-objective game. “Clearly, we must be somewhat better on the breakouts, get in their zone and have control somewhat better. However, we got a few opportunities.”
That they did in a challenge where the Kraken to a great extent controlled the initial seven minutes, however fizzled on a few point-clear open doors. Chandler Stephenson then, at that point, got in behind the Kraken safeguard on an odd-man rush and tapped home a Brett Howden pass on the principal Vegas shot of the night behind Philipp Grubauer to get the reigning champions making excellent progress so far.
Brandon Tanev later that period endeavored to clear the puck behind his own net and had it avoid off Jonathan Marchessault for another Vegas objective. Then, less than two minutes into the subsequent period, Vince Dunn — playing his most memorable game in over about fourteen days — neglected to stop an extended length pass to Ivan Barbashev, who dashed in and discharged a slap shot past Grubauer from short proximity to make it a 3-0 game.
McCann got one back that equivalent period off of a Jordan Eberle feed to the space. Then, at that point, with the Kraken down 3-1 in the third, Howden was evaluated a match punishment for an unlawful check to Tanev’s head that gave the Kraken an amazing chance to limit the hole.
However, after a clean faceoff win by Matty Beniers and speedy opportunity for Eberle, the Kraken delighted in minimal supported pressure the remainder of the five-minute strategic maneuver and that was the game. Tanev, who was on the ice squirming excruciatingly after the Howden hit, at last got up and left without any outside help yet didn’t return.
There was no update postgame on his condition.
Jack Eichel added a vacant net objective late as the Kraken’s battles went on against a group they’re presently 1-8 against in their to some degree brief history.