The Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes will face off in a duel between two of the NHL’s best teams Friday at the Lenovo Center (7 p.m. ET; TVAS2, FDSNSO, SCRIPPS, NHLN).
The Golden Knights (29-12-3), who sit third in the NHL overall, will look to bounce back after losing three of their last four games, including a 5-3 loss to the Nashville Predators on Tuesday. .
During this game, Pavel Dorofeyev scored his first career NHL hat trick. The Vegas forward has been enjoying success recently, scoring five goals in his two most recent games. He leads the Golden Knights with 19 goals this season, playing on the second line with Victor Olofsson and William Karlsson.
« [Dorofeyev] is on fire recently,” Olofsson agreed Tuesday. “It’s great that he scored three goals. We try to play a north-south style and direct pucks to the net. »
-The Hurricanes (26-16-3) will also try to bounce back, after losing in their last two games (0-1-1). On Wednesday, they lost 4-2 to the Buffalo Sabers and didn’t find the back of the net until 3:45 into the third period, a goal by defenseman Jaccob Slavin.
“We are known as a team that competes every night. We’re consistent, we have a chance to win every night, but recently that hasn’t been the case,” Slavin said Wednesday. “We don’t help ourselves when we play that way. Collectively, this is not enough. Individually neither. We can all be better. »
Jordan Staal, who has three more than one point games in the Hurricanes’ last five games, needs two points to reach the 700 career point mark. He has 698 points (294 goals, 404 assists) in 1298 games. His brother, Eric, amassed 1,063 points (455 goals, 608 assists) in 1,365 games, and the two would become the sixth brother duo to each amass 700 points, after Daniel and Henrik Sedin, Mikko and Saku Koivu, Geoff and Russ Courtnall , Frank and Peter Mahovlich and Maurice and Henri Richard.
