Overview
- Puck drop is set for 2:08 p.m. MT in Las Vegas in the first of three regular-season meetings between the teams.
- Colorado enters at 6-1-4 and Vegas at 6-1-3, with each club carrying only one regulation loss.
- Colorado’s lineup shuffles continue, with Mackenzie Blackwood expected to play one game in the back-to-back, Scott Wedgewood available, and injuries to Logan O’Connor, Samuel Girard and Joel Kiviranta.
- Vegas turns to Akira Schmid in goal with Adin Hill sidelined after the club’s signing of Carter Hart.
- Betting markets list the matchup as a pick’em with a 6.5 total, and at least one projection recommends the Under.