Eriksson Ek added an empty-netter for the 4-2 final with 1:22 remaining.<\/p>\n
The Golden Knights power play came up empty, including two chances in the third period. Coach Ryan Craig said his team had its looks with the man-advantage against a pressuring Wild penalty kill.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey (the Wild) have good sticks on it,\u201d Craig said. \u201cThey created a few scrums tonight where they killed some clock as well. And when we found opportunity, Wallstedt was there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wild forward Nico Sturm<\/a> sustained an upper-body injury with 2:14 left to play in the first period and did not return. He took a puck up high on a Jared Spurgeon<\/a>\u00a0shot through traffic. Sturm left the ice slowly with the help of a trainer and teammate. Hynes didn\u2019t have a further update on Sturm postgame but confirmed he was taken to the hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI think anytime they get those it\u2019s precautionary and the smart thing to do, especially after what happened to Brock (Faber),\u201d Hynes said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Faber sustained a skull fracture and underwent surgery after taking a puck to the head in the Wild’s 2-1 preseason loss against the Dallas Stars on Sept. 25. Sturm\u2019s incident on Monday was all too familiar, with the crowd seemingly recognizing that as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cActually, the rink was like dead silent when that went on,\u201d Hynes said.<\/p>\n Wild teammates were concerned about a similar injury, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cVery, very scary,\u201d Wallstedt said. \u201cObviously, you get flashbacks to the preseason game when that happened to Brock. Hopefully, it\u2019s not like that, but obviously very, very hard to see.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n NOTES: Hughes\u2019 six-game point streak to start a season is tied for second-longest in Wild franchise history. Andrew Brunette<\/a> has the current record with seven straight games from Oct. 3, 2009-Oct. 17, 2009. \u2026 Shabanov\u2019s goal was the first power-play goal of his career. \u2026 The Wild went 5-for-5 on the penalty kill to improve to 21-for-22 on the season and ended the game leading the League in power-play percentage (41.2 percent) and penalty-kill percentage (95.5 percent). \u2026 The Wild have scored at least one power-play goal in each of their six games this season, tying a franchise record (2010-11). \u2026 Vegas forward Mitch Marner<\/a>\u00a0recorded his 60th assist with the Golden Knights to become the fastest player to reach the mark with the franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eriksson Ek added an empty-netter for the 4-2 final with 1:22 remaining. The Golden Knights power play came…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-931280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}