NHL Playoff Preview: Vegas Golden Knights at Minnesota Wild with Line Combinations 4/24/2025

Vegas Golden Knights (1-1-0) at Minnesota Wild (1-1-0)

Venue: Xcel Energy Center
Date: Thursday, April 24
Time: 9:00 PM EST
TV: TBS/truTV/MAX
Radio:
Vegas – Fox Sports Radio 98.9 FM / 1340 AM
Minnesota – KFAN 100.3 FM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Vegas -1.5 ML -142
Minnesota +1.5 ML +120
O/U 5.5

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Vegas Golden Knights News & Notes:

The Golden Knights dropped the second game on Tuesday, 5-2. Adin Hill, through two games in this series, has a 3.04 goals-against average and a .833 save percentage.

Minnesota Wild News & Notes:

The Wild evened up the series as they return home now for games three and four. Filip Gustavsson has a 2.52 goals-against average and a .914 save percentage.

Vegas Golden Knights Projected Lines:

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

McNabb-Theodore
Hanifin-Pietrangelo
Hague-Whitecloud

Hill
Schmid

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Minnesota Wild Projected Lines:

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

Brodin-Faber
Middleton-Spurgeon
Buium-Bogosian

Gustavsson
Fleury

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Player To Watch

Vegas Golden Knights

Tomas Hertl this season had 61 points on 32 goals and 29 assists. He has two goals and an assist through the first two games of this series. In two games in the regular season against Minnesota, he had a goal and an assist and was a minus-one.

Minnesota Wild

Kirill Kaprizov this season had 56 points on 25 goals and 31 assists. In the first two games of this series, he has five points on two goals and three assists. In the lone game he faced the Golden Knights in the regular season, he scored two goals and was a plus-one.

Injury Report:

Vegas Golden Knights

None

Minnesota Wild

None

Next Game:

Game 4: Saturday, April 26 at Xcel Energy Center

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