Vegas Golden Knights at Toronto Maple Leafs: game preview
VegasGolden Knights2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 39-26-17 · 95 pts · 13that
TorontoMaple Leafs2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 32-36-14 · 78 pts · 28thSeventeen points apart last season
Vegas finished last season 13th in the league on 95 points. Toronto finished 28th on 78, 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, Vegas lead the head-to-head 8-5-3.
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, Vegas were 8th in the league and Toronto 13th. By 23 Jan 2026 it was 8th and 15th.
Vegas out-attempted Toronto 320 to 304
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Vegas Golden Knights
Toronto Maple Leafs
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 Vegas, 4 for Toronto. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Vegas, 10 for Toronto.
2025-26: 87 games for Vegas, 82 for Toronto.
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
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Small sampleToronto
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.
Adin Hill
See all: Adin Hill →VGK · 1-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 9 Dec
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Carter Hart .890 (3 GP)
Full game logAnthony Stolarz
See all: Anthony Stolarz →TOR · 2-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 9 Dec
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Sergei Bobrovsky .887 (2 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
Vegas4.252.503.233.05
Toronto2.752.753.093.65Goals 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
Vegas · injuries
Toronto · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →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.
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.
Vegas · 2026 draft
See all: Vegas · 2026 draft →Toronto · 2026 draft
See all: Toronto · 2026 draft →Saturday 12 December · the full slate
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