Vegas Golden Knights at Columbus Blue Jackets: game preview
VegasGolden Knights2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 39-26-17 · 95 pts · 13that
ColumbusBlue Jackets2026-27: 1-1-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 40-30-12 · 92 pts · 17thThree points apart last season
Vegas finished last season 13th in the league on 95 points. Columbus finished 17th on 92.
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 9-6-1.
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 13 Dec 2025, Vegas were 4th in the league and Columbus 25th. By 8 Jan 2026 it was 12th and 28th.
Columbus out-attempted Vegas 123 to 112
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Vegas Golden Knights
Columbus Blue Jackets
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 Columbus. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Vegas, 10 for Columbus.
2025-26: 87 games for Vegas, 82 for Columbus.
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 sampleColumbus
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.
Vegas crease
VGK · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 21 Oct
No appearances against Columbus in the last meetings.
Columbus crease
CBJ · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 21 Oct
No appearances against Vegas in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.3 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
Columbus3.503.503.093.09Goals 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.
3 on the injury lists
Vegas · injuries
Columbus · injuries
No players listed.
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 LW Mikael Pyyhtia on waivers.
Placed D Ivan Provorov on injured reserve.
Assigned G Pheonix Copley to Cleveland (AHL).
Vegas · 2026 draft
See all: Vegas · 2026 draft →Columbus · 2026 draft
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