NHL Playoff Preview: Minnesota Wild at Vegas Golden Knights with Line Combinations 4/22/2025

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 +200
Vegas -1.5 ML -245
O/U 5.5

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Minnesota Wild News & Notes:

The Wild look to steal game two as well as home ice away from the Golden Knights.

Vegas Golden Knights News & Notes:

The Golden Knights will look to avoid a repeat of last season in which they won game one of the playoffs but went on to lose the series.

Minnesota Wild Projected Lines:

Kaprizov-Eriksson Ek-Boldy
Johansson-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:

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

McNabb-Theodore
Hanifin-Whitecloud
Hague-Pietrangelo

Hill
Schmid

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Player To Watch

Minnesota Wild

Matt Boldy this season had 73 points on 27 goals and 46 assists. He scored the lone two Wild goals in game one. Boldy was held pointless against Vegas during the regular season.

Vegas Golden Knights

Brett Howden this season had 40 points on 23 goals and 17 assists. He scored two goals in the game one win. Howden scored a goal in one of the meetings during the regular season.

Injury Report:

Minnesota

None

Vegas

None

Next Game:

Game 3: Thursday, April 24 at Xcel Energy Center

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