Both Vegas Golden Knights coach Peter DeBoer and St. Louis Blues coach Craig Berube will be looking for better starts when their teams face off Thursday in the second game of the Western Conference round-robin Stanley Cup qualifiers at Rogers Place in Edmonton.
Vegas (1-0-0, 2 points) used four third-period goals to overcome a 3-1 deficit and defeat the Dallas Stars 5-3 in their opener on Monday. Meanwhile St. Louis (0-1-0, 0 points) lost to the Colorado Avalanche 2-1 on Nazem Kadri's power-play goal with 0.1 seconds remaining on Sunday.
William Carrier scored the game-winner for Vegas with 5:13 left via a nifty between-the-legs shot near the right post on a puck that had caromed to him off the end board.