St. Louis Blues at Vegas Golden Knights: game preview
St. LouisBlues2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 37-33-12 · 86 pts · 22ndat
VegasGolden Knights2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 39-26-17 · 95 pts · 13thNine points apart last season
St. Louis finished last season 22nd in the league on 86 points. Vegas finished 13th on 95.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 34
Across 33 completed games, Vegas lead the head-to-head 20-10-3.
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 Nov 2025, St. Louis were 30th in the league and Vegas 17th. By 10 Jan 2026 it was 30th and 11th.
Vegas out-attempted St. Louis 171 to 136
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
St. Louis Blues
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: 3 games for St. Louis, 4 for Vegas. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for St. Louis, 10 for Vegas.
2025-26: 82 games for St. Louis, 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
St. Louis
Small sampleVegas
Small sampleSkaters to watch
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.
St. Louis crease
STL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 3 Apr
No appearances against Vegas in the last meetings.
Vegas crease
VGK · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 3 Apr
No appearances against St. Louis in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.1 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
St. Louis2.333.332.823.15
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.
7 on the injury lists
St. Louis · injuries
Vegas · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed LW Alexey Toropchenko on injured reserve.
Placed G Georgii Romanov and D Calle Rosen on waivers. Claimed RD Justin Barron off waivers.
Placed D Marc Andre Gaudet was placed on waivers.
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.
St. Louis · 2026 draft
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