from Steve Carp of the Las Vegas Review-Journal,
The Golden Knights, darlings of the NHL through their first nine games, got a harsh dose of reality Monday in Brooklyn as the New York Islanders scored five unanswered goals over the final two periods and ended the Knights’ five-game winning streak with a 6-3 win at Barclays Center.
But the bigger loss was in goal as the Knights suffered the loss of another goaltender. Oscar Dansk left the game with an apparent lower-body injury after Islanders captain John Tavares scored with 5:10 left in the second period on the power play.
Dansk, who earlier in the day had been honored by the NHL as the league’s No. 2 star of the week, appeared to have lost an edge with his skate and slipped and landed awkwardly just prior to the first of Tavares’ two tallies. He was replaced by Maxime Lagace, who was seeing his first NHL action and had a rough time of it. Lagace, the fourth goalie to be used by the Knights in their 10-game existence, allowed four goals on 11 shots.
“You’ve got to be ready, that’s your job,” Lagace said. “When I saw Oscar get hurt, I knew I was going in, and I tried to focus.
Below are the game highlights including the Dansk injury, which I think happened before the Tavares goal. Scroll at the 3:55 mark to see that.
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