Perron saves night for Knights

Fa while there, as the NHL season skated off, you figured the Golden Knights might have a new best-selling children’s puzzle book in the making.

Waldo appeared to have some competition.

Where’s Shippy?

The answer came this week when Vadim Shipachyov was recalled from an American Hockey League team he never joined, a Russian center signed by the Knights in May whose scoring aptitude was hyped as a needed and welcome skill to the expansion team.

The Knights wanted him to the tune of $9 million over two years.

Shipachyov scored his first NHL goal in a win against Boston on Sunday and played nearly 11 minutes of a 5-4 overtime victory against Buffalo on Tuesday night before 17,617 at T-mobile Arena.

It wasn’t pretty as the the Knights took far too many third-period penalties in blowing all of a 4-1 lead before David Perron scored the winner with 1:08 left in overtime.

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Evander Kane then forced OT after he batted the puck out of the air with 8.9 seconds remaining in regulation to tie the game at 4.

But Perron, who scored his first of the year 3:50 into the third period to make it 4-1, bailed his team out in overtime.

“We’ve had a few tough third periods, but we got into some penalty trouble in the third,” Gallant said. “But I’m proud of our guys. They

Bridget Bennett Las Vegas Review-journal @Bridgetkbennett The Golden Knights embrace David Perron (57) after he scored with 1:08 remaining in overtime to give Vegas a 5-4 victory over the Sabres on Tuesday at T-mobile Arena. It was Perron’s second goal of the game.