The game between the Vegas Golden Knights and Winnipeg Jets will take place at T-Mobile Arena on Thursday, April 20 at 10:00 PM ET.
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The Vegas Golden Knights will welcome the Winnipeg Jets to T-Mobile Arena for an NHL game on Thursday. The Vegas Golden Knights lost 1-5 in their last game over the Jets. William Karlsson scored for the Golden Knights, who suffered their first regulation loss in nine games. It also was the first regulation loss for Vegas goalie Laurent Brossoit, who went 7-0-3 in the regular season. He stopped 26 shots.
“The thing we need to address is it’s playoff hockey,” Knights coach Bruce Cassidy said. “You needed an intensity level that was greater than the one we had. … But I’ll say this, I don’t think they were doing anything special, either. They get full value for the win, don’t get me wrong. They deserved to win and they did, but some of it was self-inflicted.”
Game 2 is Thursday night in Las Vegas. Vegas entered the game as the top seed in the Western Conference, and the Jets were the last team in the conference to get in the playoffs. But Winnipeg is 6-2 in its past eight games and continued the momentum into Tuesday.
The Winnipeg Jets on the other hand won 1-5 against the Knights in their last game. Winnipeg set the tone early Tuesday night by dominating the neutral zone, and by the third period, the Jets had suffocated the Vegas Golden Knights. The Jets allowed only two shots on goal in the final period, punctuating the defensive performance that was buttressed by Adam Lowry’s two goals and Blake Wheeler’s three points in Winnipeg’s 5-1 victory in Game 1 of the first-round series. The Jets allowed only 17 shots on goal for the game, the fewest the Knights have had all season.
“A big part of our game is pressuring the puck carrier and not give them a whole lot of time to make plays,” Winnipeg coach Rick Bowness said. “They’re a very good team on the rush. They look for that second wave, so I thought our forwards did a great job back-tracking and taking away those guys.” Wheeler had a goal and two assists for the Jets, Pierre-Luc Dubois had a goal an assist, Kyle Connor also scored, and Nino Niederreiter had two assists. Connor Hellebuyck made 16 saves.
The Jets had 14 shots on goal in the first period, but failed to get anything past Brossoit even with back-to-back power plays at one point. Vegas, which blocked 13 shots, also survived a big scramble in the crease in which Mason Appleton could’ve poked the puck into the open net, but couldn’t get his stick on it. Teammate Morgan Barron took a skate to his face from Brossoit on the play as the bodies piled up in pursuit of the puck. He went to the locker room and received more than 75 stitches before returning in the second period wearing a full cage on his head.
Ivan Barbashev – William Karlsson – Jonathan Marchessault
Michael Amadio – Laurent Brossoit – Jack Eichel
Nicolas Hague – Brett Howden – Phil Kessel
Keegan Kolesar – Alec Martinez
Brayden McNabb – Alex Pietrangelo
Nicolas Roy – Reilly Smith
Chandler Stephenson – Mark Stone
Shea Theodore
Zach Whitecloud
Blake Wheeler – Pierre-Luc Dubois – Adam Lowry
Nino Niederreiter – Kyle Connor – Josh Morrissey
Vladislav Namestnikov – Neal Pionk – Nate Schmidt
Mason Appleton – Morgan Barron
Dylan DeMelo – Brenden Dillon
David Gustafsson – Connor Hellebuyck
Saku Mäenalanen – Dylan Samberg
Mark Scheifele
Kevin Stenlund
Vegas Golden Knights: William Carrier, Logan Thompson, Robin Lehner, Nolan Patrick
Winnipeg Jets: Nikolaj Ehlers, Cole Perfetti, Sam Gagner
The game between the Vegas Golden Knights and Winnipeg Jets will take place at T-Mobile Arena on Thursday, April 20 at 10:00 PM ET.
The match between the Vegas Golden Knights and Winnipeg Jets will be telecast live on AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, ESPN2, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, ESPN2, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain. | April 20 (10:00 PM ET) |
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