Vegas Golden Knights will host the Edmonton Oilers To start the second tower of the Western Conference. The teams meet on Tuesday for the fifth time this season.
The teams equaled the 2-2 regular season series. During their last regular season match on April 1, the Oilers won 3-2.
Vegas has a 19-5-2 file at the game of the Pacific division and a record of 50-22-10 in total. The Golden Knights have a 24-10-1 file in matches that their opponents have more penalties.
Edmonton has a file of 48-29-5 in total and a record of 19-12-1 at the game of the Pacific division. Oilers are 49-11-3 in matches, they score at least three goals.
Here is a quick glance at the NHL eliminatory series in the second round between the Oilers and Golden Knights which begins Tuesday with match 1 at T-Mobile Arena.
History of the playoffs
The Golden Knights won a second round series in six games during their last meeting with the Oilers in 2023, when Vegas launched the Stanley Cup.
Leon Draisaitl scored four goals for Edmonton in a 6-4 defeat in match 1. The Knights keep 15 players from their winning range. Edmonton draws 15 from the list that lost match 7 against Florida’s panthers in the final of last year’s cup.
Season series
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Split 2-2-0 with Edmonton Ossocaling Vegas 11-10. The Oilers scored three times in the second period of a 3-2 victory at their last meeting on April 1, when Captain Connor McDavid was scratched with an undisclosed injury.
Big pistols
McDavid and Draisaitl d’Edmonton combined for five goals and 21 assists in the first round. Thomas Hertl, Jack Eichel and Mark Stone totaled six goals and eight assists between them for Vegas.
Eichel led the Golden Knights in the Éviction 2023 of the Oilers with three goals, six assists and a more-9 note in six games.
Less than
Oilers are still without defender Mattias Ekholm, who seated in the first round with an undisclosed injury. Ekholm is the rear imperturbable screen spin, both even in force and special teams. He is also the insurance policy when the defense partner Evan Bouchard jumps in attack.
The top scorer of Golden Knights and the 35 -go -in man, Pavel Dorofeyev, would be daily with an uncompromising injury suffered in an extension of match 5 against nature. Victor Olofsson plugged into Dorofeyev on the superior food game unit.
In order
Knoblauch was going to his situation as a goalkeeper on Monday, but if he goes with Calvin Pickard, the goalkeeper of Vegas, Adin Hill, is by far the most experienced during a 16-8 career in the post-season, including the Cup Cup match in 2023. Was appointed on the alignment of the Game of Canada 4 Nations, but did not play.
Pickard took over for Stuart Skinner in the first round to go 4-0 for a 5-1 career. Pickard stopped 20 shots in the April 1st victory over the Knights.
X factors
With three goals and two assists in the first round, the striker of the last six, Connor Brown, provides a depth that the oilers need when McDavid and Draisaitl attract all the attention of the opposing defense.
Brett Howden has on average a little less than 13 minutes per game in the first round for Vegas, but scored three goals on 10 shots, including the Winner of the OT in match 5, and was more 1.
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