{"id":413172,"date":"2026-01-16T13:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/413172\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:07:11","slug":"preview-leafs-in-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/413172\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Leafs in Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Toronto Maple Leafs @ Vegas Golden Knights<br \/>09:30 PM at T-Mobile Arena<br \/>Watch on: ESPN, TSN4<\/p>\n<p>The Leafs last game was away on January 13 against the Utah Mammoth, which Toronto lost by a score of 6-1 in regulation. The Leafs have a record of 23-16-7 for a 0.576 Points %.<\/p>\n<p>The Vegas Golden Knights last played away on January 14 against the Los Angeles Kings. The Golden Knights won by a score of 3-2 in overtime, and their current league record is 22-11-12 for a 0.622 Points %.<\/p>\n<p>Them<\/p>\n<p>You aren&#8217;t imagining those lines below, the Golden Knights have been playing Mitch Marner at centre due to some injuries. <\/p>\n<p>Vegas is the king of the 50% club teams this season to date. Of that long list of teams with at least one of Corsi or Expected Goals within a point of 50%, they actually have xG up at 52%, marking the boundary line between the 50 percenters and the six good to great teams above them. <\/p>\n<p>Vegas gets its good rating in xG primarily from defending, but their Expected Goals pace on the power play is excellent, second only to the Oilers. They&#8217;re also second to the Oilers is actual power play goal rate. Their PK is as good, but the goaltending there has been a bit off, leaving them merely mediocre. <\/p>\n<p>And goaltending is their big weakness. The team Save % is 27th in the NHL in all-situations. Akira Schmid is their only good goalie. <\/p>\n<p>Lines<\/p>\n<p>Last Game (2026-01-14) via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/vegas-golden-knights\/line-combinations\/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Faceoff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ivan Barbashev &#8211; Jack Eichel &#8211; Mark Stone<br \/>Pavel Dorofeyev &#8211; Mitch Marner &#8211; Reilly Smith<br \/>Keegan Kolesar &#8211; Tomas Hertl &#8211; Braeden Bowman<br \/>Cole Reinhardt &#8211; Colton Sissons &#8211; Alexander Holtz<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Lauzon &#8211; Shea Theodore<br \/>Noah Hanifin &#8211; Zach Whitecloud<br \/>Ben Hutton &#8211; Kaedan Korczak<\/p>\n<p>Adin Hill &#8211; likely starter<br \/>Akira Schmid<\/p>\n<p>Us<\/p>\n<p>Some questions from morning skate, with Matthew Knies absent for maintenance, but Nick Robertson present.<\/p>\n<p>Lines<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/markhmasters\/status\/2011869761991311850?s=20&amp;ref=pensionplanpuppets.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Morning skate<\/a>, but Matthew Knies will come  in and knock someone out:<\/p>\n<p>Bobby McMann &#8211; Auston Matthews &#8211; Max Domi<br \/>Matias Maccelli &#8211; John Tavares &#8211; William Nylander<br \/>Easton Cowan &#8211; Nicolas Roy &#8211; Nick Robertson<br \/>Steven Lorentz &#8211; Scott Laughton &#8211; Calle J\u00e4rnkrok<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Rielly &#8211; Brandon Carlo<br \/>Jake McCabe &#8211; Oliver Ekman-Larsson<br \/>Simon Benoit &#8211; Troy Stecher<\/p>\n<p>Joe Woll &#8211; starter<br \/>Dennis Hildeby<\/p>\n<p>The Game<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t take penalties, and persist and be dogged at five-on-five. Vegas is harder to score against than they are to defend if you keep it off special teams, so this has to be a win by defending and goaltending. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs @ Vegas Golden Knights09:30 PM at T-Mobile ArenaWatch on: ESPN, TSN4 The Leafs last game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-413172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}