Vegas Golden Knights at Carolina Hurricanes: game preview
VegasGolden Knights2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 39-26-17 · 95 pts · 13that
CarolinaHurricanes2026-27: 2-1-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 53-22-7 · 113 pts · 2ndEighteen points apart last season
Vegas finished last season 13th in the league on 95 points. Carolina finished 2nd on 113.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 23
Across 22 completed games, Carolina lead the head-to-head 13-8-1.
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 4 Jun 2026, Vegas were 13th in the league and Carolina 2nd. By 14 Jun 2026 it was 13th and 2nd.
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 Carolina. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Vegas, 10 for Carolina.
2025-26: 87 games for Vegas, 86 for Carolina.
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
Vegas
Small sampleCarolina
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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 14 Jan
No appearances against Carolina in the last meetings.
Carolina crease
CAR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 14 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
Carolina2.753.003.612.93Goals 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.
5 on the injury lists
Vegas · injuries
Carolina · 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 G Cayden Primeau on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed LD Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed D Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
Vegas · 2026 draft
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