Max Pacioretty has been teammates with Oscar Lindberg for five months, but he didn’t fully appreciate the Swedish forward’s game until they were paired together.
Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant put the two wingers with center Cody Eakin on Saturday against the Nashville Predators and the group combined for five points in a 5-1 win.
“He’s a really good wall player, something you don’t notice until you play with (him),” Pacioretty, who had two goals, said. “Always making that right play on the wall, and that just makes it easy coming out of our end. We got a lot of opportunities from that because of (Eakin’s) speed, able to back off defenders and then play in their end.