May 12, 2026, 12:03 a.m. ET
The Anaheim Ducks and Vegas Golden Knights meet Tuesday for Game 5 of their second-round Western Conference NHL playoff series. The opening puck drop at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, is at 9:30 p.m. ET (ESPN). Let’s analyze NHL odds around the Ducks vs. Golden Knights odds and make our expert NHL picks and predictions.
Series: Tied 2-2
The Ducks have twice bounced back after losing the odd-numbered games in this series. In Game 4 Sunday at the Honda Center, Anaheim leveraged its first 2 power-play goals of the series and earned a 4-3 triumph over Vegas. The Ducks held Vegas to just 21 shots; they have held the Golden Knights under 23 shots in 3 of the 4 games.
The Knights head home where in these playoffs they have gone 3-2. But Anaheim has played Vegas tough this season. During the regular season, the Ducks swept 3 games from the Knights; that included a Nov. 8 triumph at T-Mobile Arena.
RW Mitch Marner of the Golden Knights currently leads the NHL in postseason scoring with 16 points. In this series he has 3 goals (a hat trick in Game 3) and 4 assists (3 in Game 4).
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Moneyline (ML): Ducks +125 (bet $100 to win $125) | Golden Knights -150 (bet $150 to win $100)Puck line (PL)/Against the spread (ATS): Ducks +1.5 (-192) | Golden Knights -1.5 (+154)Over/Under (O/U): 6.5 (O: +104 | U: -128)Ducks at Golden Knights projected goalies
Lukas Dostal (2026 playoffs: 6-4, 3.43 GAA, .874 SV%) vs. Carter Hart (2026 playoffs: 6-4, 2.54 GAA, .908 SV%)
Dostal made 18 saves in Sunday’s 4-3 victory. He has filed an .875 SV% in this series.
Hart clocked 19 stops against 23 shots Sunday. He had logged a .949 SV% across his previous 4 playoff games, and he owns a .923 SV% in this series.
Ducks at Golden Knights picks and predictionsPrediction
Golden Knights 3, Ducks 2
In regular-season and postseason games combined, Vegas has won 8 of the last 11 series meetings at home.
Vegas is a good penalty-killing club, and the Knights are a rarely penalized squad in the first place. Prior to Sunday, they had killed off 26 of 27 (96.3%) penalties in these playoffs.
And Vegas is also the lean in 5-on-5 play. Anaheim has been improved in that area in this series, but the Knights do still own an edge when it comes to generating even-strength looks from danger areas of the ice. Mix in an advantage between the pipes, and the Knights continue to figure as a near-two-thirds probability for the home games in this series.
The GOLDEN KNIGHTS (-150) are a value in this return to home ice.
No interest; PASS.
Games 3 and 4 hit the Over and the O/U is 2-2 for the series.
Both late in the regular season and again in the opening round of the playoffs, both the Ducks and Knights have logged better expected-than-actual-goals-allowed numbers on defense. Both clubs have been stingy and the Game 3 and Game 4 analytics would say the Overs were outliers.
Vegas home games in the playoffs have 3-1-1 tilt toward the Under.
The UNDER 6.5 (-128) is the leverage side.
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