Pacioretty, Subban get Knights a win on home ice

Max Pacioretty scored two goals and Malcolm Subban had 29 saves as the Vegas Golden Knights snapped a franchise record five-game home losing streak with a 5-1 victory over the Nashville Predators on Saturday night in Las Vegas. It was the fourth two-goal game of the season for Pacioretty. Oscar Lindberg had a goal and an assist, and Brandon Pirri and Shea Theodore also scored goals for Vegas, which won at home for the first time since Jan. 19 when it defeated Pittsburgh, 7-3.

Subban, playing in his first game since a 3-2 win over New Jersey on Jan. 6, improved to 3-5 on the season with his third straight victory. Kevin Fiala scored a goal for Nashville, which suffered its fourth loss in five games and was outshot, 50-30.

Juuse Saros, who entered the game with a 3-0-0 record against the Golden Knights and had stopped 113 of 115 shots he had faced, finished with 45 saves. Nashville appeared to take a 1-0 lead late in the first period on a goal by Colton Sissons, but the goal was quickly overturned after Vegas challenged that Sissons had been offside entering the zone.

Two minutes later, the Golden Knights snapped a six-game streak of allowing the opposing team to score first when Pacioretty buried a rebound through Soros' pads. Pirri made it 2-0 midway through the second period with his 10th goal of the season on a power play during a period that was dominated by the Golden Knights, outshooting the Predators, 24-7.

Saros stopped Pirri's first shot, but the puck caromed out into the middle of the slot where Pirri fired in the rebound. Theodore extended the Vegas lead to 3-0 at the 1:56 mark of the third period with his ninth goal of the season.

Fiala cut it to 3-1 with a breakway goal, but Vegas answered with two goals within 1:29 to seal it, the first by Lindberg and then Pacioretty's second of the game and 18th of the season on a wrist shot from the slot through Saros' pads. --Field Level Media