NHL Game Preview: Winnipeg Jets at Vegas Golden Knights with Line Combinations 4/3/2025

NHL Game Preview: Winnipeg Jets at Vegas Golden Knights with Line Combinations 4/3/2025

Winnipeg Jets (51-20-4, 106 pts) at Vegas Golden Knights (45-21-8, 98 Pts)

Venue: T-Mobile Arena
Date: Thursday, April 3
Time: 10:00 pm ET
TV: ESPN+/TSN3/SCRIPPS
Radio:
Winnipeg – 680 CJOB
Vegas – Fox Sports Radio 98.9 FM / 1340 AM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Winnipeg: +1.5 ML +105
Vegas: -1.5 ML -125
O/U 5.5

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Winnipeg Jets News & Notes: 

The Jets had their three-game winning streak snapped on Tuesday with a 4-1 loss to the Los Angeles Kings. They are now 7-3-0 in their last ten games, averaging 2.9 goals per game while allowing 2.5 goals per game. Cole Perfetti scored the lone goal in Tuesday’s loss. he now has goals in back-to-back games and has five points in his last six games.

Vegas Golden Knights News & Notes:

The Golden Knights had their six-game winning streak snapped on Tuesday in a 3-2 loss to the Edmonton Oilers. They are now 7-2-1 in their last ten games, averaging 3.7 goals per game while allowing 2.1 goals per game. Pavel Dorofeyev and Nicolas Roy scored the goals in Tuesday’s loss.

Winnipeg Jets Projected Lines:

Connor-Scheifele-Iafallo
Ehlers-Lowry-Appleton
Niederreiter-Namestnikov-Perfetti
Gustafsson-Barron-Tanev

Morrissey-Demelo
Samberg-Miller
Fleury-Stanley

Hellebuyck
Comrie

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Vegas Golden Knights Projected Lines:

Barbashev-Eichel-Stone
Saad-Roy-Dorofeyev
Olofsson-Karlsson-Smith
Pearson-Howden-Kolesar

McNabb-Theodore
Hanifin-Whitecloud
Hague-Korczak

Hill
Schmid

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Players To Watch:

Winnipeg Jets

Cole Perfetti this season has 47 points on 17 goals and 30 assists. He’s faced the Golden Knights seven times in his career, recording six points on three goals and three assists. Between two meetings this season, he’s scored two goals and added an assist.

Vegas Golden Knights

Ivan Barbashev this season has 47 points on 20 goals and 27 assists. He’s faced the Jets 25 times in his career recording ten points on six goals and four assists. Between the two meetings this season he’s scored a total of three goals.

Injury Report:

Winnipeg Jets

D Neal Pionk – Out
F Gabriel Vilardi – Out
D Luke Schenn – DTD
F Rasmus Kupari – DTD

Vegas Golden Knights

F Tomas Hertl – Out  
D Alex Pietrangelo – DTD
G Ilya Samsonov – DTD

Next Game:

Winnipeg – April 5 at Utah Hockey Club
Vegas – March 5 at Calgary Flames

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