The period had no score, but it did start with something ominous to the rest of the game: defense, and a lack of offense.
At first it just looked like two teams feeling each other out, neither getting tremendously strong shifts but also neither getting great chances either, both goaltenders looking perfectly fine. In reality, it was a team slowly being shoved to the sides of the ice and not reacting to it until it was too late.
By then...
2nd Period, when it was too late:
So the first goal was the first NHL goal for Alex Tuch, who took full control of an absolutely disastrous set of shifts to get all on his own to get the knights up 1-0:
And following up on that miserable defensive performance, the McQuaid-Krug pairing got their chance to look painful as a net-man scramble got Tuukka down and almost nobody picking up the player in front of the net, who happened to be Vadim Shipachyov.