NHL Game Preview: Vegas Golden Knights at Vancouver Canucks with Line Combinations 4/16/2025

NHL Game Preview: Vegas Golden Knights at Vancouver Canucks with Line Combinations 4/16/2025

Vegas Golden Knights (49-22-10, 108 Pts) at Vancouver Canucks (38-29-14, 90 pts)

Venue: Rogers Arena
Date: Wednesday, April 16
Time: 10:00 pm ET
TV: TNT/truTV/MAX
Radio: 
Vegas – Fox Sports Radio 98.9 FM / 1340 AM
Vancouver – Sportsnet 650 AM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Vegas: -1.5 ML -148
Vancouver: +1.5 ML +120
O/U 5.5

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Vegas Golden Knights News & Notes:

The Golden Knights suffered a 5-4 shootout loss to the Calgary Flames last night. The Golden Knights are locked in for a matchup with the Minnesota Wild in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Vancouver Canucks News & Notes: 

The Canucks wrap up their 2024-25 regular season tonight. They are coming off a 2-1 overtime win over the San Jose Sharks. They’ve won three of their last four games, averaging 3.5 goals per game while allowing 2.5 goals per game.

Vegas Golden Knights Projected Lines:

Barbashev-Howden-Stone
Saad-Hertl-Dorofeyev
Smith-Karlsson-Holtz
Pearson-Roy-Kolesar

McNabb-Theodore
Hanifin-Whitecloud
Hutton-Korczak

Hill
Samsonov

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Vancouver Canucks Projected Lines:

Hoglander-Suter-Garland
DeBrusk-Mueller-Boeser
Joshua-Raty-Sherwood
O’Connor-Blueger-Karlsson

Hughes-E.N.Pettersson
M.Pettersson-Hronek
Kudryavtsev-Mancini

Lankinen
Tolopilo

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Players To Watch:

Vegas Golden Knights

Ivan Barbashev this season has 51 points on 23 goals and 28 assists. He’s faced the Canucks 21 times in his career recording 11 points on three goals and eight assists. He has a goal in each game he’s played against them this season.

Vancouver Canucks

Kiefer Sherwood this season has 40 points on 19 goals and 21 assists. He’s faced the Golden Knights 11 times in his career, recording four assists; three of those assists came this season between three meetings.

Injury Report:

Vegas Golden Knights

F Jack Eichel – DTD
D Alex Pietrangelo – Out
G Ilya Samsonov – DTD

Vancouver

C Filip Chytil – Out
D Noah Juulsen – IR
C Elias Pettersson – Out
C Nils Aman – Out
D Tyler Myers – Out
C Max Sasson – DTD
D Derek Forbort – DTD

Next game:

Vegas – Stanley Cup Playoffs
Vancouver – None

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