Los Angeles Kings at Vegas Golden Knights: game preview
Los AngelesKings2026-27: 0-2-1 · 1 pts · 2025-26: 35-27-20 · 90 pts · 20that
VegasGolden Knights2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 39-26-17 · 95 pts · 13thFive points apart last season
Los Angeles finished last season 20th in the league on 90 points. Vegas finished 13th on 95, 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, Los Angeles were 7th in the league and Vegas 8th. By 25 Feb 2026 it was 22nd and 11th.
Los Angeles out-attempted Vegas 305 to 288
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Los Angeles Kings
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 Los Angeles, 4 for Vegas. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Los Angeles, 10 for Vegas.
2025-26: 82 games for Los Angeles, 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
Los Angeles
Small sampleVegas
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.
- Started 2 of 3 this season
- 50 of the team's last 82 starts
2026-27: 2 GP · .825 SV% · GSAx −4
Also possible: Forsberg 44%
Expected starter after their game on 8 Oct: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Anton Forsberg
See all: Anton Forsberg →LAK · 0-0-1 in 2026-27 Chance to start · 44%
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Darcy Kuemper .825 (2 GP)
Full game logAdin Hill
See all: Adin Hill →VGK · 1-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter not named
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Carter Hart .890 (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
Los Angeles3.005.002.743.01
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.
6 on the injury lists
Los Angeles · injuries
Vegas · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →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.
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.
Los Angeles · 2026 draft
See all: Los Angeles · 2026 draft →Vegas · 2026 draft
See all: Vegas · 2026 draft →Saturday 10 October · the full slate
See all: Saturday 10 October · the full slate →
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