It was the first loss of the season for the Hurricanes (5-1-0), leaving the Golden Knights (5-0-2) and Colorado Avalanche (5-0-1) as the only teams in the NHL without a regulation loss.
Hill left with a lower-body injury at 9:54 of the first period after making four saves. It was also Vegas’ first game without captain Mark Stone, who is week to week with an upper-body injury the forward sustained in a 6-1 win against the Calgary Flames on Saturday.
Jack Eichel scored to extend his point streak to seven games for Vegas. He leads the NHL with 16 points (six goals, 10 assists). Ivan Barbashev had a goal and an assist, and Pavel Dorofeyev scored his seventh goal of the season.
Sebastian Aho scored, while Fredrik Anderssen made 21 saves for the Hurricanes.
Eichel gave the Golden Knights a 1-0 lead at 8:42 of the first period when his attempted pass to Barbashev was redirected in by K’Andre Miller.
Dorofeyev extended it to 2-0 at 10:28. Mitch Marner stole the puck in his own end and put the puck behind the defense, allowing Dorofeyev to chase it down.
Aho cut it to 2-1 at 4:18 of the second period, sneaking a wrist shot underneath Schmid’s right arm. Nikolaj Ehlers had the secondary assist for his first point with Carolina.
Barbashev made it 3-1 with a wrist shot at 11:06 of the third period following a Miller turnover.
William Karlsson added an empty-net goal at 18:23 for the 4-1 final.
