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LAS VEGAS (AP) — After veteran goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury allowed 17 goals in four straight starts Womens Craig Anderson Jersey , the Vegas Golden Knights‘ Malcolm Subban took over the crease for just the eighth time this season.The 25-year-old Subban made the most of his first start since early January.Subban made 29 saves, Max Pacioretty scored twice and the Golden Knights defeated the Nashville Predators 5-1 on Saturday.Vegas snapped a three-game losing streak, and a franchise-record five-game skid at T-Mobile Arena. Vegas, which was 29-10-2 at home last season, improved to 17-9-3 at home this season.“I felt good obviously to get back in there. Not playing for a while you never know how its gonna go, but you just try to focus on the first shot and (then) one shot at a time,” Subban said. “They stole one from us here in our building not too long ago. We came out here on a losing streak at home and felt we had to stick to these guys and get some revenge to them from the last game they beat us.”Subban, who recently spent time on the injured reserve list with an undisclosed injury, was spectacular in earning his third straight victory.“He was great, he came off the IR seven or 10 days ago, got some good practice in with (goalie coach) Dave (Prior) and with our team and tonight he was sharp,” Vegas coach Gerard Gallant said. “He looked really good Authentic Erik Karlsson Jersey Kids , he looked focused and he made some incredible saves.”That included a huge save in the second period that could’ve shifted momentum, when Nashville’s Ryan Hartman fired one shot, raced across the crease and tried to sneak the rebound by the post, but was denied by Subban’s outstretched skate. Then, ahead 3-1 with a little more than 13 minutes left in the game, he stoned Viktor Arvidsson on a straight-ahead shot from just inside the circle.Brandon Pirri, Shea Theodore and Oscar Lindberg also scored for Vegas.Nashville came into the game ranked fourth in the NHL in goals-against per game (2.57) and seventh in shots allowed per game (29.4). The Preds had allowed two-or-fewer goals in 31 games, and one-or-fewer in 18 of their 60 games before allowing the handful to Vegas.Kevin Fiala scored his 10th goal for Nashville, and Juuse Saros made 45 saves.“It wasn’t a good game. We were down in a lot of areas and the score reflected that,” Nashville coach Peter Laviolette said. “The second period, for me, was unexplainable. That’s back-to-back second periods where we just didn’t show up.”Vegas controlled the tempo the entire second period Jean-Gabriel Pageau Jersey , during which it outshot the Predators 24-7, keeping the pressure on Saros, who fell to 3-1-0 in his career against the Golden Knights. It was during the second 20 minutes the Golden Knights got their game-winner, when William Karlsson passed to Reilly Smith, who dished to a wide open Pirri, who was streaking into the zone. Pirri’s initial shot was blocked, but he stuck with it and followed it up and found the back of the net with his third game-winner.With the NHL’s third-best penalty kill on home ice, the Golden Knights were 3-for-3 short-handed, as the Predators couldn’t crack Subban with their power play. Nashville ranks last in the league with a paltry 12.7 conversion rate on the power play.“Working on it,” said Laviolette, whose team has just three goals in its last 54 power-play chances. “We work on it constantly. On the ice, in the room http://www.senatorsshoponline.com/authentic-mark-stone-jersey , on the video. It’s not working.”Golden Knights center Paul Stastny continued his point streak with an assist to Theodore, who buried a backhand over Saros to give Vegas a 3-0 lead early in the third period.Nashville tried to stay in the game when it got on the board shortly after with Fiala’s goal. But Lindberg pushed the lead to 4-1 when he fired the puck through the legs of Nashville forward Colton Sissons and past Saros.Pacioretty, meanwhile, responded to being moved to the third line, as Gallant was looking to shake things up with an offense that had been stagnant during a 2-7-0 slide. Pacioretty snapped a five-game goal drought with his first multi-goal game since Nov. 29, scoring the team’s first and last goals of the game.NOTES: Nashville defenseman P.K. Subban remains two points from 400 and six goals from 100. … Predators wing Viktor Arvidsson had tallied 12 goals in his previous 13 games, but he was kept off the board after being limited to just two shots. … Tuch, the Golden Knights leader in points with 41 points, snapped a seven-game drought with his assist on Lindberg’s goal.UP NEXTNashville: Visits Dallas on Tuesday.Vegas: Visits Colorado on Monday. SEATTLE (AP) The group looking to bring professional hockey to Seattle has taken the next step in the pursuit of an NHL franchise.The Oak View Group and its prospective NHL ownership group, led by billionaire David Bonderman and filmmaker Jerry Bruckheimer, submitted its expansion application with the National Hockey League on Tuesday.”We are excited for the next steps in the process and our continued partnership with the City of Seattle,” Oak View CEO Tim Leiweke said in a statement.The expansion application has been expected for weeks and is the next step in Seattle’s ongoing hope of bringing an NHL franchise to the largest market in the United States without a professional winter sports franchise. The filing also included a $10 million deposit. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan also tweeted her excitement about Oak View’s filing with the NHL.If Seattle is successful in its expansion bid Youth Matt Duchene Jersey , the new franchise would bring the league to an even 32 teams with 16 in each conference. A new team would also yield a hefty expansion fee – in the neighborhood of $650 million.The expansion application is a procedural step that was necessary to validate Oak View’s intent on making Seattle the next NHL market. Seattle’s application will be reviewed and ultimately the league’s executive committee will make a recommendation to the full NHL Board of Governors. The timeline for that is unknown.The expansion franchise process is running concurrent with a $660 million remodel of KeyArena being privately financed by OVG. The group has an aggressive timeline for construction that could have the renovated building open in time for the 2020-21 NHL season.The first test in how willing Seattle is to embrace the NHL will arrive in the coming weeks and months when the prospective ownership group begins a season-ticket drive, the same way the league tested Las Vegas. Any NHL team in Seattle would find a completely different landscape than a decade ago when the Sonics and NBA moved to Oklahoma City and the city lost its winter sports outlet.Seattle’s skyline is filled with as many construction cranes as snowcapped peaks in the surrounding mountains. Amazon has taken over an entire section of the city, joined nearby by satellite offices of Google and Facebook. The amount of wealth now in the Seattle market is part of the reason Oak View CEO Tim Leiweke has regularly called Seattle ”a brilliant marketplace” and one of the most enticing expansion opportunities in pro sports history.Seattle has become a city of transplants due to the booming local economy. A hockey franchise would provide those newcomers a team to rally around, much like what happened when the Sounders of the MLS arrived in 2009.But finding a foothold in Seattle will be an examination of how starved fans are for another team. Basketball is embedded in the DNA of the region thanks to 41 years of the SuperSonics until 2008 and a lengthy history of producing NBA talent.While the ownership group for the potential NHL franchise appears set, there remains some concern about having the new arena ready by the 2020 season. OVG and the city reached agreement on a memorandum of understanding for the arena in December. Councilmembers praised the agreement for including benefits for the city, including $20 million in cash and in-kind contributions to nonprofit organizations and another $40 million to help improve transportation in the area around Seattle Center.The MOU was the first step in a process that will include an environmental review. The city still needs to finalize several key documents with the developer, including the lease and other agreements.Under the MOU, Oak View Group would be responsible for regular facility upgrades for the life of the 39-year lease agreement. Should those upgrade requirements be met, there are two eight-year lease extensions that will be activated, and carry the entire life of the lease agreement to 55 years.—AP Hockey Writer John Wawrow contributed to this report.