Vegas Golden Knights at Los Angeles Kings: game preview
VegasGolden Knights2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 39-26-17 · 95 pts · 13that
Los AngelesKings2026-27: 0-2-1 · 1 pts · 2025-26: 35-27-20 · 90 pts · 20thFive points apart last season
Vegas finished last season 13th in the league on 95 points. Los Angeles finished 20th on 90, and the 2025-26 season series went VGK 3-0-1.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 45
Across 44 completed games, Vegas lead the head-to-head 25-15-4.
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 8 Oct 2025, Vegas were 8th in the league and Los Angeles 7th. By 25 Feb 2026 it was 11th and 22nd.
Los Angeles out-attempted Vegas 305 to 288
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Vegas Golden Knights
Los Angeles Kings
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, 3 for Los Angeles. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Vegas, 10 for Los Angeles.
2025-26: 87 games for Vegas, 82 for Los Angeles.
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 sampleLos Angeles
Small sampleJack Eichel has 11 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.
Jack Eichel vs Los Angeles · game by game
See all: Jack Eichel vs Los Angeles · game by game →Anton Forsberg has been the difference
Anton Forsberg faced 81 shots across 3 appearances against Vegas and conceded 14, a .827 save percentage against a season figure of .800. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 28 Nov: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 28 Nov: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Adin Hill
See all: Adin Hill →VGK · 1-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 28 Nov
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Carter Hart .890 (3 GP)
Full game logAnton Forsberg
See all: Anton Forsberg →LAK · 0-0-1 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 28 Nov
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Darcy Kuemper .825 (2 GP)
Full game logScoring rates point to about 6.2 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
Los Angeles3.005.002.743.01Goals 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
Los Angeles · 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 D Otto Salin on the injured non-roster list. Loaned G Erik Portillo to Ontario (AHL).
Waived for the purpose of assignment to Abbotsford (AHL) Fs Martin Chromia, Cole Guttman, Lane Pederson and Francesco Pinelli and D Joe Hicketts. Loaned Fs Aatu Jamsen and Koehn Ziemmer, Ds Angus Booth, Kirill Kirsanov and Jared Woolley to Ontario. Placed F Jan Jenik and D Jakub Dvorak on injured reserve.
Signed F Elton Hermansson to a three-year, entry-level contract.
Vegas · 2026 draft
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