NHL Playoff Preview: Minnesota Wild at Vegas Golden Knights with Line Combinations 4/20/2025

Minnesota Wild at Vegas Golden Knights

Venue: T-Mobile Arena
Date: Sunday, April 20
Time: 10:00 PM EST
TV: ESPN/SN
Radio:
Minnesota – KFAN 100.3 FM
Vegas – Fox Sports Radio 98.9 FM / 1340 AM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Minnesota +1.5 ML +142
Vegas -1.5 ML -170
O/U 5.5

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Minnesota Wild News & Notes:

The Wild wrapped up the regular season going 5-3-2, with six of those ten games going to overtime. They averaged 3.2 goals per game while allowing an average of 3.5 goals per game over those final ten games. The Wild went 0-3-0 against the Golden Knights in the regular season.

Vegas Golden Knights News & Notes:

The Golden Knights wrapped up the regular season going 6-2-2 in their last ten games, averaging 2.8 goals per game while allowing 2.5 goals per game. They went 3-0-0 against the Wild, outscoring them 12-4.

Minnesota Wild Projected Lines:

Kaprizov-Eriksson Ek-Boldy
Foligno-Gaudreau-Zuccarello
Foligno-Rossi-Nyquist
Trenin-Hartman-Brazeau

Brodin-Faber
Middleton-Spurgeon
Buium-Bogosian

Gustavsson
Fleury

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Vegas Golden Knights Projected Lines:

Howden-Eichel-Dorofeyev
Olofsson-Karlsson-Smith
Rondbjerg-Roy-Kolesar
Pearson-Schwindt-Holtz

McNabb-Theodore
Hague-Pietrangelo
Hutton-Korczak

Hill
Samsonov

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Minnesota Wild

Kirill Kaprizov this season had 56 points on 25 goals and 31 assists. In the lone game he played against the Golden Knights this season, he scored two goals and was a plus-one.

Vegas Golden Knights

Jack Eichel this season had 94 points on 28 goals and 66 assists. In two games against the Wild he had five points, in one game he had two assists, and then back on March 25th, he had a hat trick. He was an even plus/minus against Minnesota this season.

Injury Report:

Minnesota

None

Vegas

F Mark Stone – DTD
D Noah Hanifin – DTD

Next Game:

Game 2: Tuesday, April 22 at T-Mobile Arena

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