{"id":579914,"date":"2026-05-21T01:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/579914\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T01:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:27:17","slug":"golden-knights-vs-avalanche-game-1-preview-new-lines-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/579914\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights vs Avalanche Game 1 Preview: New Lines, How to Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, the Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> visit the Colorado Avalanche<\/a> to kick off the Western Conference Finals.<\/p>\n

Puck drop is scheduled for 5:15 p.m. PST.<\/p>\n

Carter Hart<\/a> starts in net for the Golden Knights<\/a>. Hart has a record of 8-4 and an average save percentage of .917 in 12 games this postseason.<\/p>\n

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Scott Wedgewood<\/a> starts in net for the Avalanche. Wedgewood has a record of 7-1 and an average save percentage of .914 in eight games this postseason.<\/p>\n

Mark Stone<\/a> was on the ice for morning skate with the scratches ahead of Game 1, but did not take the ice for warmups.<\/p>\n

Ivan Barbashev<\/a> \u2014 Jack Eichel<\/a> \u2014 Pavel Dorofeyev<\/a><\/p>\n

Brett Howden<\/a> \u2014 William Karlsson<\/a> \u2014 Mitch Marner<\/a><\/p>\n

Brandon Saad<\/a> \u2014 Tom\u00e1\u0161 Hertl<\/a> \u2014 Colton Sissons<\/a><\/p>\n

Cole Smith<\/a> \u2014 Nic Dowd<\/a> \u2014 Keegan Kolesar<\/a><\/p>\n

Brayden McNabb<\/a> \u2014 Shea Theodore<\/a><\/p>\n

Noah Hanifin<\/a> \u2014 Rasmus Andersson<\/a><\/p>\n

Ben Hutton<\/a> \u2014 Dylan Coghlan<\/a><\/p>\n

Goaltenders: Carter Hart \/ Adin Hill<\/a><\/p>\n

Gabriel Landeskog<\/a> \u2014 Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> \u2014 Martin Ne\u010das<\/p>\n

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Artturi Lehkonen<\/a> \u2014 Brock Nelson<\/a> \u2014 Nicolas Roy<\/a><\/p>\n

Ross Colton<\/a> \u2014 Nazem Kadri<\/a> \u2014 Valero Nichushkin<\/a><\/p>\n

Parker Kelly<\/a> \u2014 Jack Drury<\/a> \u2014 Logan O\u2019Connor<\/p>\n

Devon Toews<\/a> \u2014 Sam Malinski<\/a><\/p>\n

Brett Kulak<\/a> \u2014 Josh Manson<\/a><\/p>\n

Brent Burns<\/a> \u2014 Jack Ahcan<\/a><\/p>\n

Goaltenders: Scott Wedgewood \/ Mackenzie Blackwood<\/a><\/p>\n

VGK power play: 25.7%, 4th<\/p>\n

VGK penalty kill: 86.8%, 5th<\/p>\n

Ducks<\/a> power play: 25.0%, T5th<\/p>\n

Ducks penalty kill: 79.3%, 11th<\/p>\n

The Golden Knights are 13-11 in Game 1s in franchise history.<\/p>\n

Historically, teams that take a 1-0 series lead go on to win 70.3% of the time.<\/p>\n

Mitch Marner is the postseason leader in scoring with 18 points (7G, 11A).<\/p>\n

Pavel Dorofeyev leads the league with nine postseason goals.<\/p>\n

Jack Eichel leads the league in assists this postseason with 14.<\/p>\n

TV: ESPN<\/p>\n

Radio: FOX Sports Las Vegas 94.7\/1340<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, the Vegas Golden Knights visit the Colorado Avalanche to kick off the Western Conference Finals. Puck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[1042,2320,2882,3704,1598,1772,1741,3592,1034,88,17763,144,7950,1543,1739,2094,7,149,5317,48082,5,1259,4015,515,1041,1544,3710,1123,1040,533,517,2054,4,4864,6233,1337,2833,6295,2880,3327,1351,4520,2565,9,74,39,5316,1099,1599],"class_list":["post-579914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vegas-golden-knights","tag-adin-hill","tag-artturi-lehkonen","tag-ben-hutton","tag-brandon-saad","tag-brayden-mcnabb","tag-brent-burns","tag-brett-howden","tag-brett-kulak","tag-brock-nelson","tag-carter-hart","tag-cole-smith","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-colton-sissons","tag-devon-toews","tag-ducks","tag-dylan-coghlan","tag-gabriel-landeskog","tag-golden-knights","tag-goldenknights","tag-hertl","tag-hockey","tag-ivan-barbashev","tag-jack-ahcan","tag-jack-drury","tag-jack-eichel","tag-josh-manson","tag-keegan-kolesar","tag-mackenzie-blackwood","tag-mark-stone","tag-mitch-marner","tag-nathan-mackinnon","tag-nazem-kadri","tag-nhl","tag-nic-dowd","tag-nichushkin","tag-nicolas-roy","tag-noah-hanifin","tag-parker-kelly","tag-pavel-dorofeyev","tag-rasmus-andersson","tag-ross-colton","tag-sam-malinski","tag-scott-wedgewood","tag-shea-theodore","tag-vegas","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-vegasgoldenknights","tag-western-conference-finals","tag-william-karlsson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}