Vegas Golden Knights at Minnesota Wild: game preview
VegasGolden Knights2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 39-26-17 · 95 pts · 13that
MinnesotaWild2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 46-24-12 · 104 pts · 7thNine points apart last season
Vegas finished last season 13th in the league on 95 points. Minnesota finished 7th on 104.
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 23-18-3.
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 16 Nov 2025, Vegas were 13th in the league and Minnesota 18th. By 6 Mar 2026 it was 11th and 5th.
Vegas out-attempted Minnesota 295 to 294
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Vegas Golden Knights
Minnesota Wild
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 Minnesota. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Vegas, 10 for Minnesota.
2025-26: 87 games for Vegas, 82 for Minnesota.
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 sampleMinnesota
Small sampleMarcus Johansson has 6 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.
Marcus Johansson vs Vegas · game by game
See all: Marcus Johansson vs Vegas · game by game →Adin Hill has been the difference
Adin Hill faced 53 shots across 2 appearances against Minnesota and conceded 4, a .925 save percentage against a season figure of .900. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Adin Hill
See all: Adin Hill →VGK · 1-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 25 Dec
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Carter Hart .890 (3 GP)
Full game logFilip Gustavsson
See all: Filip Gustavsson →MIN · 28-15-6 in 2025-26 Starter estimate from 25 Dec
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Jesper Wallstedt .933 (3 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
Minnesota3.001.673.322.93Goals 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.
6 on the injury lists
Vegas · injuries
Minnesota · 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.
Waived for the purpose of assignment to Iowa (AHL) Ds Matt Kiersted, Carson Lambos, and Roman Schmidt and Fs Caedan Bankier, Dylan Gambrell, Justin Kirkland, Tyler Pitlick, and Mason Shaw. Assigned Ds Ben Dexheimer and Viking Gustafsson Nyberg and Fs Jagger Joshua, Hunter Haight, Riley Heidt, Rasmus Kumpulainen, and Rieger Lorenz to Iowa.
Signed G Filip Ruzicka to a three-year, entry-level contract.
Signed D Filip Ruzicka to a three-year contract.
Vegas · 2026 draft
See all: Vegas · 2026 draft →Minnesota · 2026 draft
See all: Minnesota · 2026 draft →
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