STATELINE, NV – The Tahoe Knight Monsters, proud ECHL Affiliate of the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights and the AHL’s Henderson Silver Knights, dropped the opening recreation of a three-game sequence in opposition to the Greensboro Gargoyles on the highway by a 4-3 extra time closing. Within the opening 20, Tahoe scored the lone aim, as Sloan Stanick continued to remain scorching, scoring within the closing two minutes of the interval to place the Knight Monsters up 1-0 going to the locker room.
Within the center interval, it was Greensboro who answered again, thanks to 2 objectives by Demetrios Koumontzis in 16 seconds to place the Gargoyles up 2-1 heading into the ultimate interval.
Within the third, Devon Paliani answered again with a pair of objectives of his personal, coming on the 2:38 mark and 4:43 mark respectively to present Tahoe a 3-2 lead. Nonetheless, with simply over six minutes to go within the recreation, David Gagnon tied the rating, discovering the again of the web off a slick feed from Patrick Newell to ship the sport into extra time.
In OT, it solely took 16 seconds for Newell to seek out the again of the web for the primary time this season, because the Gargoyles claimed the additional level and earned their first house victory in franchise historical past.
The Knight Monsters and Gargoyles face off for recreation two of the sequence tomorrow at 4 pm PT. Pregame protection on the Knight Monsters broadcast community begins at 3:50 pm.
