NHL Playoff Preview: Vegas Golden Knights at Minnesota Wild with Line Combinations 5/1/2025

NHL Playoff Preview: Vegas Golden Knights at Minnesota Wild with Line Combinations 5/1/2025

Vegas Golden Knights (3-2-0) at Minnesota Wild (2-1-2)

Venue: Xcel Energy Center
Date: Thursday, May 1
Time: 7:30 PM EST
TV: ESPN/SN360/TVAS2/FDSNO/SCRIPPS
Radio:
Vegas – Fox Sports Radio 98.9 FM / 1340 AM
Minnesota – KFAN 100.3 FM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Vegas -1.5 ML -166
Minnesota +1.5 ML +140
O/U 5.5

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Vegas Golden Knights News & Notes:

The Golden Knights have taken a 3-2 series lead and can advance to the second round tonight with a win. They are averaging three goals per game. Adin Hill, this series is posting a 3.00 goals-against average and an .865 save percentage. He stopped 20 of the 22 shots he faced in Tuesday’s win.  

Minnesota Wild News & Notes:

The Wild have dropped two straight and will look to force a game seven with a win tonight. The Wild are averaging 3.4 goals per game in this series. Filip Gustavsson is posting a 2.635 goals-against average and a .919 save percentage. Gustavsson left game five with an injury and was replaced by Marc-Andre Fleury. Fleury suffered the loss, giving up a goal in overtime as he faced seven shots.

Vegas Golden Knights Projected Lines:

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

McNabb-Theodore
Hague-Pietrangelo
Hanifin-Whitecloud

Hill
Schmid

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Minnesota Wild Projected Lines:

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

Brodin-Faber
Middleton-Spurgeon
Merrill-Bogosian

Gustavsson
Fleury

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Players To Watch:

Vegas Golden Knights

Mark Stone this season had 67 points on 19 goals and 48 assists. Stone has a goal and an assist  in this series. He had a point in every game against Minnesota in the regular season finished with five assists.

Minnesota Wild

Kirill Kaprizov this season had 56 points on 25 goals and 31 assists. He’s scored five goals and added four assists in the series. He had two goals in his lone game against Vegas.   

Injury Report:

Vegas Golden Knights

None

Minnesota Wild

G Filip Gustavsson – DTD

Next Game:

Game 7: Saturday, May 3 at T-Mobile Arena

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