LAS VEGAS (AP) William Karlsson scored a natural hat trick to lead the Vegas Golden Knights to a 4-0 victory over the Calgary Flames on Sunday.
Colin Miller also scored as Vegas snapped a four-game home losing streak and improved to 25-9-2 at T Mobile Arena.
Marc-Andre Fleury, who made his 20th start in 21 games, made 42 saves. In getting his 48th career shutout and fourth of the season, Fleury moved into a tie with Chris Osgood for 12th all-time amongst goaltenders at 401.
Vegas improved to 3-0-0 against Calgary while outscoring the Flames 15-5. The teams meet once more, in the regular-season finale at Calgary on April 7.
Mike Smith stopped 27 shots as the Flames, one of the league’s better road teams this season, dropped to 20-11-6 away from home.
The Golden Knights opened the scoring by taking advantage of their first power-play opportunity, when Miller found the back of the net with a vicious slap shot from the point 5 1/2 minutes into the second period.
Less than one minute later, James Neal made a steal at the blue line, created space in Calgary’s zone and fed a streaking Karlsson, who one-timed the first of his three goals to give Vegas a 2-0 lead.
Karlsson second goal came after he set up near the left circle, took Jonathan Marchessault’s pass from behind the net, and fired a shot that deflected off Smith’s glove with just under seven minutes left in the middle period.
The Swedish-born center completed his natural hat trick when he took a pass from defenseman Nate Schmidt in Vegas’ zone, skated the length of the ice and lifted a wrist shot over Smith’s blocker to make it 4-0 with 5:11 remaining in the second.
NOTES: Calgary’s Matt Stajan is now two games shy of 1,000 for his career. … Vegas’ Pierre-Edouard Bellemare played in his 300th career game. … Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant is two wins away from his 200th.
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Calgary: Visits the Arizona Coyotes on Monday.
Vegas: Hosts the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday.
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