Vegas Golden Knights at Colorado Avalanche: game preview
VegasGolden Knights2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 39-26-17 · 95 pts · 13that
ColoradoAvalanche2026-27: 2-0-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 55-16-11 · 121 pts · 1stTwenty-six points apart last season
Vegas finished last season 13th in the league on 95 points. Colorado finished 1st on 121.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 43
Across 42 completed games, Vegas lead the head-to-head 22-15-5.
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 11 Apr 2026, Vegas were 16th in the league and Colorado 1st. By 26 May 2026 it was 13th and 1st.
Vegas out-attempted Colorado 73 to 65
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Vegas Golden Knights
Colorado Avalanche
Vegas and Colorado are level on 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, 2 for Colorado. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Vegas, 10 for Colorado.
2025-26: 87 games for Vegas, 82 for Colorado.
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 sampleColorado
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Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Vegas crease
VGK · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 1 Jan
No appearances against Colorado in the last meetings.
Colorado crease
COL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 1 Jan
No appearances against Vegas in the last meetings.
Scoring 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
Colorado7.002.503.682.48Goals 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.
7 on the injury lists
Vegas · injuries
Colorado · 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 LD Keaton Middleton, LD Wyatt Aamodt, RW/LW Fabian Lysell, C Vinnie Hinostroza, LW Adam Beckman and LW Tristen Nielsen on waivers.
Placed D Keaton Middleton, D Wyatt Aamodt, LW Fabian Lysell, C Vinnie Hinostroza, LW Adam Beckman and G Mads Sogaard Nielsen on waivers.
Reassigned Ds Domenick Fensore, Saige Weinstein and Christian Wolanin to Colorado (AHL).
Vegas · 2026 draft
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