Vegas Golden Knights (39-26-17, in the Pacific Division) vs. Anaheim Ducks (43-33-6, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
Anaheim, California; Thursday, 9:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Golden Knights -115, Ducks -105; over\/under is 6<\/p>\n
NHL PLAYOFFS SECOND ROUND: Golden Knights lead series 3-2<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Vegas Golden Knights visit the Anaheim Ducks in the second round of the NHL Playoffs with a 3-2 lead in the series. The teams meet Tuesday for the ninth time this season. The Golden Knights won 3-2 in overtime in the previous meeting. Pavel Dorofeyev led the Golden Knights with two goals.<\/p>\n
Anaheim has gone 43-33-6 overall with a 21-14-2 record in Pacific Division play. The Ducks have given up 288 goals while scoring 265 for a -23 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
Vegas has gone 39-26-17 overall with an 18-7-6 record against the Pacific Division. The Golden Knights have conceded 242 goals while scoring 264 for a +22 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Cutter Gauthier has scored 41 goals with 28 assists for the Ducks. Jackson LaCombe has one goal and eight assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Dorofeyev has 37 goals and 27 assists for the Golden Knights. Brett Howden has scored seven goals and added two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Ducks: 6-3-1, averaging 3.5 goals, 5.8 assists, 3.1 penalties and 6.5 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Golden Knights: 6-4-0, averaging 3.5 goals, 5.7 assists, 3.8 penalties and 9.1 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Ducks: Radko Gudas: day to day (lower body), Ryan Poehling: day to day (upper body), Petr Mrazek: out for season (lower-body), Drew Helleson: day to day (undisclosed).<\/p>\n
Golden Knights: Jeremy Lauzon: out (upper-body), Mark Stone: day to day (lower-body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vegas Golden Knights (39-26-17, in the Pacific Division) vs. Anaheim Ducks (43-33-6, in the Pacific Division) Anaheim, California;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,29687,6489,2099,39068,1421,29267,1489,29682,16535,5429,15954,127,4626,8614],"class_list":["post-313396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-brett-howden","tag-drew-helleson","tag-jackson-lacombe","tag-jeremy-lauzon","tag-las-vegas","tag-mark-stone","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-pavel-dorofeyev","tag-petr-mrazek","tag-radko-gudas","tag-ryan-poehling","tag-sports","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}