Nashville Predators at Vegas Golden Knights: game preview
NashvillePredators2026-27: 1-1-1 · 3 pts · 2025-26: 38-34-10 · 86 pts · 23rdat
VegasGolden Knights2026-27: 3-1-0 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 39-26-17 · 95 pts · 13thNine points apart last season
Nashville finished last season 23rd 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 25
Across 24 completed games, Vegas lead the head-to-head 13-9-2.
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 31 Dec 2025, Nashville were 24th in the league and Vegas 13th. By 21 Mar 2026 it was 20th and 19th.
Vegas out-attempted Nashville 324 to 242
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Nashville Predators
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 Nashville, 4 for Vegas. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Nashville, 10 for Vegas.
2025-26: 82 games for Nashville, 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
Nashville
Small sampleVegas
Small sampleShea Theodore 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.
Shea Theodore vs Nashville · game by game
See all: Shea Theodore vs Nashville · game by game →Adin Hill has started most of these meetings
Adin Hill played 2 of the last 5 meetings with Nashville, with a .902 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Justus Annunen
See all: Justus Annunen →NSH · 10-12-2 in 2025-26 Starter estimate from 10 Nov
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Juuse Saros .907 (3 GP)
Full game logAdin Hill
See all: Adin Hill →VGK · 1-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 10 Nov
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Carter Hart .890 (3 GP)
Full game logScoring 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
Nashville2.333.003.013.28
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.
4 on the injury lists
Nashville · injuries
Vegas · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Recalled G Matt Murray from Milwaukee (AHL). Placed G Justus Annunen on injured reserve.
Recalled LW Yegor Pinchuk from Milwaukee (AHL). Assigned G Matt Murray to Milwaukee.
Recalled G Matthew Murray from Milwaukee (AHL).
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.
Nashville · 2026 draft
See all: Nashville · 2026 draft →Vegas · 2026 draft
See all: Vegas · 2026 draft →Friday 13 November · the full slate
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