GLENDALE, Ariz. -- With a proven scorer in James Neal and a three-time Stanley Cup winning goalie in Marc-Andre Fleury, the Vegas Golden Knights don't look like an expansion team.

They're not playing like one, either.

Neal scored his third goal in two nights at 3:45 into overtime and the Golden Knights rallied late to beat the Arizona Coyotes 2-1 on Saturday night and close out a memorable opening weekend of play.

Neal scored twice in the third period as Vegas won 2-1 at Dallas on Friday night in the franchise's first game. Then, barely 24 hours later, the Golden Knights -- in the first back-to-back in team history -- rode a 42-28 edge in shots to overcome a nearly game-long deficit and deal Arizona its second difficult loss in as many games.

"It's a little bit different look of a team, an expansion team, a drafted team, but we have good players," Neal said. "We have one of the best goaltenders in the league in Marc-Andre Fleury and when you have that, you have a chance to win every single game. You saw that the last two nights."

Down 1-0, Vegas pulled Fleury with just over two minutes left to create an artificial power play. Nate Schmidt, joining late in a rush, raced to the puck near the left post and directed it past Antti Raanta for his first of the season -- tying the game with 1:12 left and denying Raanta his ninth career shutout.

"We just needed one, Schmitty got one, and we finished it off," said Neal, who missed the entire preseason as a hand injury dating to last season's playoffs healed.

Neal then won it by beating Raanta with a wrist shot after Arizona had controlled most of the overtime. The Coyotes couldn't hold a 4-1 lead and lost their opener 5-4 at Anaheim on Thursday. Rick Tocchet has lost both decisions as Arizona's coach.

"It's early but we're off to a great start," said Gerard Gallant, who is 2-0-0 as Vegas' coach. "I thought we executed real well. We could have had another four or five goals easily, (but) their goalie played outstanding."

So did Gallant's goalie. Fleury -- the former Pittsburgh Penguins netminder -- was strong again as he started for the second successive night, making 27 saves, and now has turned aside 72 of 74 shots this season.

"I don't remember all my seasons," Fleury said when asked if this is as good a start as he's had since breaking in with Pittsburgh in 2003. "But this one feels good. The way we won these games, it's a good feeling for sure.

For the opposing goalie, the shutout and the game disappeared in what probably seemed like seconds. Raanta probably deserved a better fate after turning aside 42 of 44 shots.

"Antti held us in that game, the whole game, he was unbelievable," said Tobias Rieder, who scored slightly less than six minutes into the game for Arizona's only goal against Fleury. "We've got to find a way (to start closing out games). ... We sat back too much."

Raanta, a former backup with the Rangers and Blackhawks, had leg spasms that kept him out of Arizona's opener. He made a series of key saves to keep Arizona in the lead for nearly all the game.

"It felt really good," said Raanta, a starter for the first time after being a backup with the Blackhawks and Rangers.

Until the end, when, defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson said, "We made a lot of mistakes."

Raanta's biggest saves came as Arizona killed off a 5-on-3 Vegas power play that lasted 1:13 in the second period, turning aside Brendan Leipsic's shot from the right circles and shots by David Perron and Wiliam Karlsson on opposite sides of the net only seconds apart. By the third period, the Coyotes' home crowd of 17,125 was saluting Raanta by chanting his name.

Vegas was 0-for-4 on the power play and is 0-for-11 for the season after going 0-for-21 during the preseason. Arizona had a pair of power plays early in the third period, but couldn't convert on either one as Fleury kept it a one-goal game.

NOTES: Arizona is 14-6-1 in home openers since relocating from Winnipeg in 1996. ... LW Nick Cousins, acquired from Philadelphia during the offseason, started on the Coyotes' second line after being a healthy scratch Thursday in Anaheim. RW Christian Fischer was scratched despite scoring a goal Thursday. ... The teams are playing five times, one more than usual because of the uneven NHL's 31-team alignment. They meet again Tuesday at T-Mobile Arena in Vegas' first home game. ... Representatives of the other 30 teams, including Penguins star Sidney Crosby, taped "Vegas Strong" messages Friday to support the league's newest city -- in the same week as the mass shooting that killed 58 at a concert there Sunday. ... Vegas won 36 of 61 faceoffs. ... The Coyotes listed it as a sellout, but there were numerous empty seats.