May 6, 2026, 12:02 a.m. ET
The Anaheim Ducks and Vegas Golden Knights clash Wednesday in Game 2 of their second-round Western Conference series. Puck drop in Las Vegas, Nevada, is 9:30 p.m. ET (TNT / truTV / HBO Max). Let’s analyze NHL odds around the Ducks vs. Golden Knights odds and make our expert NHL picks and predictions.
Best-of-7 series: Golden Knights 1-0
A Ducks club that averaged 4.33 goals per game (GPG) in its first-round 4-2 series win over the Edmonton Oilers was held to a lone goal in a 3-1 (Under 6.5) loss in Monday’s Game 1. Anaheim totes a 1-3 playoff road record into Wednesday’s tilt.
Pacific Division-champion Vegas was a -172 favorite Monday. The Knights yielded a game-tying goal early in the third period, but retook the lead 65 seconds later on a goal by LW Ivan Barbashev, and closed it with an late empty-net tally. Knights penalty-killers helped key the 3-1 victory. Vegas killed off each of 4 Anaheim power plays, and over the team’s last 4 games the Knights have held opponents to an 0-for-14 mark with an extra skater.
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Moneyline (ML): Ducks +134 (bet $100 to win $134) | Golden Knights -162 (bet $162 to win $100)Puck line (PL)/Against the spread (ATS): Ducks +1.5 (-176) | Golden Knights -1.5 (+142)Over/Under (O/U): 6.5 (O: +102 | U: -124)Ducks at Golden Knights projected goalies
Lukas Dostal (2026 playoffs: 4-3, 3.59 GAA, .878 SV%) vs. Carter Hart (2026 playoffs: 5-2, 2.49 GAA, .910 SV%)
Dostal has started all 7 games for the Ducks in these playoffs. On Monday, he allowed 2 goals on 21 shots.
Hart has been the lone starter utilized by Vegas in its playoff run so far. He stopped 33 of 34 pucks in Game 1 and after scuffling across 3 straight games in the Knights’ first-round series vs. the Utah Mammoth, he has clocked a .965 SV% over the club’s last 2 games.
Ducks at Golden Knights picks and predictionsPrediction
Golden Knights 3, Ducks 2
Vegas has won 8 of the last 10 series meetings at home. Since April 1, in regular-season and playoff games combined, Anaheim has gone just 6-8-1. Over the same time frame, the Knights have gone 11-2-1.
The Knights’ PK success looms large in Vegas being a solid play here. The Ducks had their power play going late in the regular season, and then they went a robust 8 for 16 in the Edmonton series. But the Knights are a much better penalty-killing team than the Oilers.
The 25-year-old Dostal is appearing in his first postseason. He went into bracket play on a down note, having registered an .836 SV% in April. The Knights counter with Hart, who during the regular season notched a .911 SV% on home ice. And he has earned hot-hand status for the way he closed out the Utah series and opened this one.
The GOLDEN KNIGHTS (-162) are the leverage side here.
No interest; PASS.
The last 6 Anaheim at Vegas games have seen the Under go 5-1.
Both late in the regular season and again in the opening round of the playoffs, both the Ducks and Knights have logged expected-goal metrics that point to tighter, lower-scoring games.
The expectation is for special teams to have a diminished role in this series and for the better overall defensive club, the Knights, to drive the tempo.
The UNDER 6.5 (-124) has value.
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