Vegas Golden Knights at Anaheim Ducks: game preview
VegasGolden Knights2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 39-26-17 · 95 pts · 13that
AnaheimDucks2026-27: 2-0-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 43-33-6 · 92 pts · 18thThree points apart last season
Vegas finished last season 13th in the league on 95 points. Anaheim finished 18th on 92, and the 2025-26 season series went ANA 5-3-1.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 46
Across 45 completed games, Vegas lead the head-to-head 31-10-3.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 8 May 2026, Vegas were 13th in the league and Anaheim 18th. By 2 Oct it was 17th and 13th.
Anaheim out-attempted Vegas 321 to 269
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Vegas Golden Knights
Anaheim Ducks
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, 2 for Anaheim. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Vegas, 10 for Anaheim.
2025-26: 87 games for Vegas, 87 for Anaheim.
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 sampleAnaheim
Small sampleMitch Marner has 10 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.
Mitch Marner vs Anaheim · game by game
See all: Mitch Marner vs Anaheim · game by game →Carter Hart has started most of these meetings
Carter Hart played 5 of the last 5 meetings with Anaheim, with a .910 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Carter Hart
See all: Carter Hart →VGK · 2-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 17 Mar
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Adin Hill .900 (1 GP)
Full game logLukas Dostal
See all: Lukas Dostal →ANA · 2-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 17 Mar
Scoring rates point to about 6.6 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
Anaheim3.502.503.333.51Goals 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.
6 on the injury lists
Vegas · injuries
Anaheim · 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.
Signed D Tristan Luneau to a six-year contract extension.
Reassigned C Roger McQueen and C Cruz Lucius to San Diego (AHL). Recalled D Noah Warren, D Ian Mitchell and D Tristan Luneau from San Diego. Placed D Drew Helleson on injured reserve. Moved RW Troy Terry from the non-roster list to long-term injured reserve.
Placed G Laurent Brossoit and D Travis Mitchell on waivers.
Vegas · 2026 draft
See all: Vegas · 2026 draft →Anaheim · 2026 draft
See all: Anaheim · 2026 draft →Saturday 20 March · the full slate
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