Victor Olofsson and Tomas Hertl gave Vegas the kind of scoring punch that can bury a game early, and the Golden Knights used that depth to roll past the Seattle Kraken 6-2 on Tuesday night.
Vegas was already in control by the time the second intermission arrived, building a 5-0 cushion and never really letting Seattle find a foothold. Olofsson and Hertl each scored twice, while Jack Eichel piled up a goal and three assists. Mark Stone added a goal and an assist, reaching a notable milestone in the process.
Stone’s goal came early in the second period on a sequence that started with Seattle’s Brandon Montour breaking his stick on a hard shot from the blue line while Vegas was short-handed. Eichel collected the loose puck and moved it to Stone, who finished from the left side at 1:43. That goal made Stone the third Vegas player to reach 400 points with the team, joining Jonathan Marchessault, who has 417 and is now with Nashville, and current teammate William Karlsson, who has 403.
Hertl got Vegas going with a power-play goal late in the first period, finishing with 4:02 left after Stone set him up for the opening 2-0 lead. Olofsson then took over from there, first beating Joey Daccord with a shot from just inside the blue line on the right wing with 6:58 left in the opening period, then striking again with 6:53 remaining in the second to push the Knights ahead 4-0.
By the end of two periods, Seattle was chasing a game that had already slipped away.
The Kraken finally got on the board in the third through Shane Wright and Jared McCann, with Kaapo Kakko picking up assists on both goals. But the comeback never got close. Carter Hart stopped 25 shots for Vegas, while Daccord made 16 saves through two periods before Philipp Grubauer took over to start the third and made six saves.
The third period also turned nasty. Seattle’s Ben Meyers drove Olofsson hard into the boards and received a five-minute major and game misconduct.
Later, Montour and Stone fought, and Montour was also assessed a misconduct. With 4:57 left, Seattle’s Ryan Winterton and Vegas’ Marc Gatcomb dropped the gloves.
Vegas returns home to face Toronto on Thursday.
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