The Golden Knights have shown they can win in style all season.

On Tuesday night at T-Mobile Arena, they showed they can also win ugly.

Vegas gritted out a 1-0 victory over Detroit Red Wings to improve to a 7-2-3 record and retake the early-season lead in the Pacific Division.

The star-studded team has largely lived up to their reputation over the first month of the season by flashing their elite offensive abilities, but it took a more physical brand of hockey to get past the Red Wings.

More than 30 minutes of game time passed before Ivan Barbashev punched in a rebound in front of Detroit’s net to put Vegas up 1-0. The sequence started on a slap shot from defenseman Jeremy Lauzon that Detroit goalie John Gibson stopped.

But he couldn’t corral the puck and his teammates failed to clear

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