Toronto Maple Leafs at Vegas Golden Knights: game preview
TorontoMaple Leafs2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 32-36-14 · 78 pts · 28that
VegasGolden Knights2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 39-26-17 · 95 pts · 13thSeventeen points apart last season
Toronto finished last season 28th in the league on 78 points. Vegas finished 13th on 95, and the 2025-26 season series went VGK 2-0-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 17
Across 16 completed games, Toronto lead the head-to-head 8-6-2.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 15 Jan 2026, Toronto were 13th in the league and Vegas 8th. By 23 Jan 2026 it was 15th and 8th.
Vegas out-attempted Toronto 320 to 304
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Toronto Maple Leafs
Vegas Golden Knights
Vegas have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 4 games for Toronto, 4 for Vegas. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Toronto, 10 for Vegas.
2025-26: 82 games for Toronto, 87 for Vegas.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Toronto
Small sampleVegas
Small sampleJack Eichel has 8 points in the last 5 meetings
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away, then who has produced in the last meetings.
Jack Eichel vs Toronto · game by game
See all: Jack Eichel vs Toronto · game by game →Adin Hill has started most of these meetings
Adin Hill played 5 of the last 5 meetings with Toronto, with a .896 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
- Started 2 of 4 this season
2026-27: 2 GP · .887 SV% · GSAx +0
Also possible: Stolarz 35%
Injured: Merzlikins (injured reserve)
- Started 3 of 4 this season
2026-27: 3 GP · .890 SV% · GSAx −1
Also possible: Hill 49%
Anthony Stolarz
See all: Anthony Stolarz →TOR · 2-0-0 in 2026-27 Chance to start · 35%
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Sergei Bobrovsky .887 (2 GP)
Full game logAdin Hill
See all: Adin Hill →VGK · 1-0-0 in 2026-27 Chance to start · 49%
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Carter Hart .890 (3 GP)
Full game logScoring rates point to about 6.4 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Toronto2.752.753.093.65
Vegas4.252.503.233.05Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
8 on the injury lists
Toronto · injuries
Vegas · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed RW Nikita Grebenkin on injured reserve.
Moved C Max Domi from the non-roster list to long-term injured reserve.
Placed D Cade Webber on the injured non-roster list.
Signed C William Karlsson to a two-year contract.
Placed C Jakub Cormier, RW Matyas Hemmerling and C Jakub Uchacz on the injured non-roster list.
Placed D Jaycob Megna, D Adam Ginning, D Joe Fleming, C Jakub Demek and D Jeremy Davies on waivers.
Toronto · 2026 draft
See all: Toronto · 2026 draft →Vegas · 2026 draft
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