Eight might not be enough for the Vegas Golden Knights.

The expansion club extended its win streak in impressive fashion, blanking the Nashville Predators 3-0 on Tuesday night.

The Golden Knights earned their eighth straight victory and improved to 17-2-1 on home ice in their inaugural season.

Vegas has also gone 13 games without a loss in regulation (12-0-1) and remains in first place in the Pacific Division.

The win and point streaks could be in jeopardy Thursday and Friday, when the Golden Knights hit the road to face the St. Louis Blues and Chicago Blackhawks, respectively.

Vegas has won only 10 of 18 games away from T-Mobile Arena.

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It was a familiar sight in yet another Montreal Canadiens defeat: The offense was virtually non-existent.

Timo Meier scored twice and backup goaltender Aaron Dell made 30 saves to lead the San Jose Sharks to a 4-1 victory over the Canadiens on Tuesday night.

Montreal nearly kept pace with the Sharks in the shots-on-goal department, losing that battle 33-31, but Andrew Shaw's second-period marker was all the Canadiens had to show for it.

Shaw's goal was only the fourth by the Canadiens during their five-game losing skid.

It won't get any easier for Montreal. Next up is a date with the high-flying Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night.

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Edmonton Oilers forward Patrick Maroon was assessed a match penalty Tuesday night after a hit to the head of Los Angeles Kings defenseman Drew Doughty.

Doughty was taken to the dressing room following the play, which can be seen below.

The Kings took advantage of the incident, pouring in three goals on the ensuing power play as Doughty returned to the ice minutes into the final frame.

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With two of the most prolific offenses in the NHL pitted against each other Tuesday night, of course it was a goaltender who stole the show.

Then again, Andrei Vasilevskiy is no ordinary goalie, particularly as of late, as his 29-save effort against the Toronto Maple Leafs marked his second consecutive shutout.

The Tampa Bay Lightning netminder blanked the Columbus Blue Jackets in his previous outing, and now has a league-leading six shutouts this season.

Vasilevskiy also notched his NHL-best 26th win while continuing to pace all starters in save percentage (.937) and goals-against average (1.95).

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The United States advanced to the semifinal of the World Junior Hockey Championship with a 4-2 win over Russia Tuesday.

New York Islanders first-round pick Kieffer Bellows scored his second goal of the game in the third period, breaking the 2-2 tie. The tally was his tournament-leading sixth.

Captain Joey Anderson sealed the game with an empty-netter.

Maple Leafs prospect Joseph Woll was stellar between the pipes, stopping 27 of 29 shots he faced.

The United States outshot Russia 43-29.

USA will take on Sweden in the first semifinal on Thursday at 4:00 p.m.

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The matchups and times are locked in for the semifinal round of the 2018 World Junior Hockey Championship.

The United States will battle Sweden in the first semi on Thursday at 4 p.m. ET, and Canada will face the Czech Republic in the second one at 8 p.m. ET.

Both games will be played at Buffalo's KeyBank Center, and the home of the NHL's Sabres will also host the gold and bronze-medal games on Friday.

In the quarterfinals, Canada advanced easily with an 8-2 victory over Switzerland, and the U.S. defeated Russia 4-2. Sweden slipped by Slovakia 3-2 to move on to the round of four, while the Czech Republic edged Finland 4-3.

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Christian Wohlwend might as well have said, "I told you so."

The head coach of Team Switzerland couldn't help but refer back to his brutally honest pregame assessment of their chances in the World Junior Hockey Championship quarterfinal after Canada cruised to an 8-2 victory Tuesday night.

"See? See? It was just like the last exhibition," Wohlwend told reporters, including TSN's Mark Masters. "You guys saw it, everybody saw it, they're just better than us."

The Swiss coach's initial comments raised some eyebrows, but he insisted postgame that his players weren't bothered by them.

"No way, no way," he said with a smile, according to Masters. "They like me. I like them too."

As if Wohwend's first dose of honesty wasn't enough, he took it one step further when asked to predict the result of the semifinal.

"I think Canada wins the whole tournament, this is what I think," he said.

On Sunday, he offered an unexpected reality check when asked to evaluate his team's hopes against Canada in the quarterfinal.

"We are far away from them, still. They are faster, they are bigger, they are stronger, they can shoot better, they can pass better," he admitted at the time. "What do you want me to say? How many first-rounders do they have? And the rest in the second round. And the one in the fourth round who has played the most NHL games so far? We have one in the fourth round, too. One. And the rest are not drafted."

The remarks prompted Canada's captain, Dillon Dube, to theorize that it might have been an attempt at reverse psychology, and Canadian forward Sam Steel wondered if Wohlwend was "playing mind games."

Canada thumped Switzerland 8-1 in pre-tournament action, and with Tuesday's win, has now defeated Switzerland in all 22 games they've played in the history of the tourney.

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The Toronto Maple Leafs had a heartfelt pregame ceremony in honor of the late Johnny Bower prior to their Tuesday night matchup against the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Bower passed away last week at the age of 93. The goaltender spent 12 seasons with the Leafs, winning four Stanley Cups.

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Canada topped Switzerland 8-2 on Tuesday in Buffalo to book their ticket into the semifinals at the 2018 world juniors.

Awaiting Canada is the Czech Republic, who beat Finland in a shootout earlier in the afternoon.

Canada got two goals each from Drake Batherson and Jordan Kyrou, while Brett Howden, Cale Makar, Connor Timmins, and Maxime Comtois supplied the additional tallies.

Dario Rohrback and Axel Simic solved Canadian goaltender Carter Hart, who stopped 12 of 14 shots.

Canada has the day off Wednesday, before squaring off with the Czech Republic for a chance at reaching Friday's gold medal game.

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