{"id":465430,"date":"2023-10-11T04:20:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T08:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465430"},"modified":"2023-10-11T04:20:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T08:20:16","slug":"las-vegas-beat-kraken-4-1-starting-their-title-defense-on-a-high","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/las-vegas-beat-kraken-4-1-starting-their-title-defense-on-a-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas beat Kraken 4-1, starting their title defense on a high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas Golden Knights kicked-off their title defense with a 4-1 victory over Seattle Kraken on Tuesday. Adin Hill stopped 32 of total 33 shots towards his goal and Chandler Stephenson had a goal and an assist for the win.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Marchessault, Ivan Barbashev and Jack Eichel also scored goals and Mark Stone added two assists for Vegas, which raised its first Stanley Cup banner in T-Mobile Arena during a glitzy pregame ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Jared McCann scored for Seattle, which is opening the season with a three-game road trip that continues on Thursday at Nashville. Philipp Grubauer finished with 24 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas took a 1-0 lead on its first shot of the season through Stephenson and increased their lead to 2-0 at the 14:57 mark of the first period when Kraken forward Brandon Tanev, trying to put the puck behind his own net, had his pass deflect off the blade of Marchessault&#8217;s stick and into the top left corner of the goal past a startled Grubauer.<\/p>\n<p>Barbashev made it 3-0 at the 1:20 mark of the second period before\u00a0Seattle cut it to 3-1 midway through the second period when McCann got his first goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Howden received a five-minute major and a match penalty with 13:58 remaining in the third period for an illegal shoulder check to the head of Tanev in the neutral zone. But the Kraken were unable to capitalize on the ensuing five-minute power play with Hill turning away six shots. Eichel then sealed the win for the Golden Knights with an empty-net goal with 1:15 remaining.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JBk6-5EeM_M?si=TjvmJpbPvbOwEVjY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas Golden Knights kicked-off their title defense with a 4-1 victory over Seattle Kraken on Tuesday. Adin Hill stopped 32 of total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":465432,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17335,17212],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[18444,17982],"acf":{"announce":"Golden Knights raised their Stanley Cup banner in T-Mobile Arena before the first game of the season","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465434,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465430\/revisions\/465434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465430"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465430"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}