NHL Playoff Preview: Edmonton Oilers at Vegas Golden Knights with Line Combinations 5/6/2025

Edmonton Oilers (4-2-0) at Vegas Golden Knights (4-2-0)

Venue: T-Mobile Arena
Date: Tuesday, May 6
Time: 7:30 PM EST
TV: ESPN/SN360/TVAS2/FDSNO/SCRIPPS
Radio:
Edmonton – Oilers Radio 880 CHED
Vegas – Fox Sports Radio 98.9 FM/1340 AM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Edmonton: -1.5 ML +110
Vegas -1.5 ML -130
O/U 5.5

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Edmonton Oilers News & Notes: 

The Oilers won four straight games to advance to the second round after they went down 2-0 to the Los Angeles Kings. The Oilers averaged 4.5 goals per game in the first series while allowing six goals per game. Calvin Pickard, since taking over in the net, is posting a 2.93 goals-against average and a .893 save percentage.

Vegas Golden Knights News & Notes:

The Golden Knights beat the Minnesota Wild in six games to move on to round two. They averaged three goals per game in round one while allowing 3.2 goals per game.  Adin Hill, posted a 2.83 goals-against average and an .880 save percentage in round one.

Edmonton Oilers Projected Lines

Draisaitl-McDavid-Perry
Kane-Nugent-Hopkins-Hyman
Frederic-Henrique-Brown
Podkolzin-Janmark-Arvidsson

Nurse-Bouchard
Walman-Klingberg
Kulak-Emberson

Pickard
Skinner

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Vegas Golden Knights Projected Lines:

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

McNabb-Theodore
Hague-Pietrangelo
Hanifin-Whitecloud

Hill
Schmid

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Players To Watch:

Edmonton Oilers

Connor McDavid this season had 100 points on 26 goals and 74 assists. He had two goals and six assists in round one. In three games against Vegas in the regular season, he had an assist.

Vegas Golden Knights

Tomas Hertl this season had 61 points on 32 goals and 29 assists. He had three goals and two assists in round one. In two games in the regular season against Edmonton, he had an assist.

Injury Report:

Edmonton Oilers

D Alec Regula – IR
D Mattias Ekholm – Out
D Troy Stecher – DTD

Vegas Golden Knights

F Pavel Dorofeyev – DTD

Next Game:

Game 2: Wednesday, May 7 at T-Mobile Arena

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3. ITR 34: End Of The Road 41:46
4. ITR 33: The Gr8 One 44:20
5. ITR 32: The Final Countdown 45:55