Jonathan Marchessault has scored twice and started an early blitz that chased the NHL's hottest postseason goalie, and Adin Hill continued his stellar play as the Vegas Golden Knights seized control of the Stanley Cup Final with a 7-2 victory over the Florida Panthers to take a 2-0 series lead.

Hill made 29 saves and Marchessault had an assist to finish with three points. His 12 postseason goals set a Golden Knights record, with all coming after the first round.

Brett Howden scored twice for the Knights, who also got goals from Alec Martinez, Nicolas Roy and Michael Amadio. Their nine goal scorers through the first two games, after winning the opener 5-2, are a Stanley Cup Final record and the Knights' seven goals on Monday night tied a franchise mark for a playoff game.

It was too much for Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, who was removed 7:10 into the second period down 4-0. It was the fifth time in 12 games the Knights have chased the opposing goalie.

Matthew Tkachuk and Anton Lundell scored for Florida.

Teams that take a 2-0 series lead in the Stanley Cup Final are 31-3 in the expansion era. The Panthers will try to buck history beginning with Game 3 on Thursday in Florida.

The Knights were dominant early, taking a 2-0 lead in the first period on goals from Marchessault and Martinez. It was Vegas' third game in a row with a power-play goal, their first such stretch since Christmas week.

The Panthers lost their biggest, toughest defenceman early in the game when Radko Gudas was injured on a hit by Vegas forward Ivan Barbashev.

That was one of several big hits by Barbashev, the Golden Knights' biggest trade-deadline acquisition, a Stanley Cup champion with St. Louis in 2019. Barbashev broke the sternum of Colorado defenceman Samuel Girard during the playoffs last year, also on a clean hit.

Vegas had their own scare late in the second period when Jack Eichel was nailed in the right shoulder by Tkachuk, but Eichel returned in the third and set up Marchessault's second goal.