Apart from Malcolm Subban, who had one of, if not the best game of his season with a 42-save performance, it appears that the Pacific Division-leading Golden Knights came down with a case of the infamous San Jose Flu.
The Golden Knights took advantage on one of their five high-danger scoring chances when trade deadline acquisition Tomas Tatar received a hard pass from Jonathan Marchessault and slid it backhand past Martin Jones for the first goal of the game. It was Tatar’s 19th goal of the season and second with the Golden Knights.
Vegas continued a good run of form for the rest of the first period but could not score again, exiting the first period up by a very narrow margin of 22 attempts compared to the Sharks’ 21.