Golden Knights will play wild in the 1st round of the Western Conference

The Vegas Golden Knights will play the Minnesota wildly in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs in the first round of the Western Conference.

Vegas (49-22-10) will take first place in the Pacific Division and have an advantage of home ice in the best-of-7 series. Minnesota (45-30-7) won the first game map from the west on Tuesday with a 3-2 victory against the Anaheim Ducks.

The Golden Knights won the only previous playoff meeting against the wilderness and defeated them in seven games in the first round 2021.

In 76 games, Center Jack Eichel leads the Golden Knights with 93 points (27 goals, 66 templates). The striker Mark Stone has 67 points (19 assists, 48 ​​points) in 66 games, and Center Tomas Hertl has 61 points (32 goals, 29 assists) in 73 games.

Adin Hill, goalkeeper from Vegas, has a record of 32-13-5 in 50 starts with an average of 2.47 goals and a percentage of 0.906. Ilya Samsonov has a 16-9-4 record in 29 starts for the Golden Knights with an average of 2.82 goals and a percentage of 0.891.

The wilderness in 82 games was offensive by striker Matt Boldy with 73 points (27 goals, 46 templates). Center Marco Rossi had 60 points in 82 games (24 goals, 36 templates) and striker Kirill Kaprizov in 41 games (25 goals, 31 assists).

On April 9, Kaprizov returned from a violation of the lower body against the San Jose Sharks and had two goals and one template, including the game winner, in an 8: 7 victory in overtime. He missed 28 games in a row and 40 of the previous 43 because of the injury that had to be operated on.

The goalkeeper Filip Gustavsson had a record of 31-19-6 in 58 starts with an average of 2.56 goals and a percentage of 0.914. Marc-Andre Fleury had a 14-9-1 record in 26 games (22 starts) with an average of 2.93 goals and a percentage of 0.899 in his last NHL season. The selection of No. 1 by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the NHL design of 2003 is retired after the playoffs have been completed after 21 seasons.

Vegas won the season series against Minnesota and won all three games. The Golden Knights won 3-2 in the game on December 15th on December 15, on January 12th at home and on March 25th with 5: 1 on the street.

Eichel had five points (three goals, two templates) in two games against Minnesota, and Shea Theodore (one goal, four templates) and Stone (five templates) each had five points in three games.

Hill went 2-0: 0 against Minnesota with an average of 1.00 goals and a win of 0.950 percent and Samsonov with an average of 2.00 goals with 1: 0 and a percentage of 0.909.

Mats Zuccarello led the wild in three games against the Golden Knights with three points (all templates), and Kaprizov had two points in a game against Vegas (both goals).

Gustavsson and Fleury each went 0-0 with a percentage of 0.892 with 0-0 and allowed four goals to 37 shots in their starts against the golden knights.

Vegas qualified for the third time in a row for the playoffs and in eight years since he came to the league in the league in 2017-18. The golden knights won the Stanley Cup in 2023.

Minnesota qualified after missing the playoffs last season. The game has no longer been exceeded in the first round since they were taken to the second round of the Western Conference in 2015 when they were swept by the Chicago Blackhawks who won the Stanley Cup.