Vladimir Sobotka scores the lone Buffalo goal late in the game.
LAS VEGAS, NV. — Jonathan Marchessault scored two goals, and Marc-Andre Fleury made 26 saves for his 407th NHL victory for the Vegas Golden Knights in a 4-1 win against the Buffalo Sabres at T-Mobile Arena on Tuesday.
Fleury tied Glenn Hall for 10th place on the all-time wins list.
William Karlsson scored his first goal of the season, and had an assist, and Cody Eakin scored for the Golden Knights (3-4-0), who won consecutive games for the first time this season.
Vladimir Sobotka scored, and Carter Hutton made 25 saves for the Sabres (3-3-0).
Marchessault scored the Golden Knights’ first power-play goal of the season at 18:59 of the first for a 1-0 lead. Vegas had been 0-for-16 with the man advantage.
Eakin scored for the third time in four games, a shorthanded goal at 2:08 of the second period, to make it 2-0.
Karlsson scored off a deflection from Reilly Smith at 10:40 of the third for a 3-0 lead.
Sobotka ended Fleury’s bid for his second consecutive shutout with 37 seconds remaining to cut the lead to 3-1, but Marchessault scored an empty-net goal at 19:47 to make it 4-1.
Tennyson assigned to Amerks
In order to make room on the roster for Zach Bogosian, the Sabres assigned defenseman Matt Tennyson to the Rochester Americans. The 28-year-old veteran can be assigned directly to the Amerks as he recently cleared waivers in the 30-day window the NHL allows for players to be assigned to the AHL before requiring the waiver process again.