- 1 Vegas Golden Knights vs Nashville Predators: a 29.8% power play against a 75% penalty kill
- 2 Vegas Golden Knights: Eichel’s 24 points and a 6-2-2 road record before coming home
- 3 Nashville Predators: four wins in a row and Stamkos with 10 goals
- 4 Free NHL Prediction: Vegas Golden Knights vs Nashville Predators
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Vegas Golden Knights vs Nashville Predators: a 29.8% power play against a 75% penalty kill 
Nashville has scored on 17 of its 57 power plays, a conversion rate of 29.82%. Vegas kills 75.00% of the penalties it takes. If Friday’s game turns on special teams, the visitors hold the edge.
Everything else points toward the home side. Vegas is 12-5-2 with 26 points, second in the Pacific Division, and has won three straight, the latest 4-1 in Buffalo on Saturday.
Nashville is 8-4-5 with 21 points, fourth in the Central, and arrives on a four-game winning streak of its own. The Predators beat St. Louis 3-1 on November 7 after wins over Carolina, Colorado and Tampa Bay.
Puck drop at T-Mobile Arena is 10:00pm ET (7:00pm local) on Friday, November 13. Nashville plays in Los Angeles on Tuesday and Anaheim on Wednesday first, so this is its third game in four nights, with Thursday off. Vegas hosts Utah on Wednesday.
The first meeting this season went to Vegas, 5-2 in Nashville on October 13. Five different players scored for the Golden Knights that night: Howden, Karlsson, Hertl, Eichel and Connelly.
I’m siding with Vegas. The penalty-kill number is the one thing that gives me pause.
Vegas Golden Knights: Eichel’s 24 points and a 6-2-2 road record before coming home 
Vegas has been better away than at home so far, 6-2-2 on the road against 6-3 at T-Mobile Arena. The current trip ended with wins in Pittsburgh (3-2), Detroit (2-1) and Buffalo (4-1).
Ryan Craig, promoted from the AHL in June to replace John Tortorella, has a deep scoring group. Jack Eichel scored in Buffalo and is at 24 points, Mark Stone has 10 goals and 19 points, and Mitch Marner added a shorthanded goal on Saturday to reach 20 points.
Tomas Hertl scored twice in Buffalo and is up to nine goals. The power play runs at 27.78%, which is close to Nashville’s rate and gives Vegas a way to answer if the game opens up.
Hill made 28 saves on 29 shots on Saturday and is 7-2-0. He also beat Nashville in October with 26 saves. Hart, the other goaltender, is 5-3-2 with a 2.49 GAA and a .900 save percentage.
The penalty kill is the weak spot at 75.00%. The only regular on injured reserve is defenseman Parker Wotherspoon, out since October with an upper-body injury.
Vegas has scored three or more in three of its last six, and it allowed one goal in each of the wins in Detroit and Buffalo. The two losses in that stretch came 5-2 at home to New Jersey and 3-2 in a shootout in Boston.
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Nashville Predators: four wins in a row and Stamkos with 10 goals 
Steven Stamkos leads Nashville with 10 goals. Filip Forsberg and Roman Josi share the points lead at 20 each, and Ryan O’Reilly has 17.
The streak started after back-to-back one-goal losses to the Islanders (4-3 in a shootout) and Washington (4-3). Since then it’s been 5-4 in a shootout against Tampa Bay, 4-1 over Carolina, 3-2 in overtime in Colorado and 3-1 over St. Louis.
Andrew Brunette’s team has scored 51 and allowed 48 in 17 games. Juuse Saros is 5-3-4 with a 2.62 GAA and a .912 save percentage, and the penalty kill sits at 88.46%.
The road record is 2-1-3, and the trip to Los Angeles and Anaheim comes first. Jonathan Marchessault has a lower-body injury from November 3 and missed the St. Louis game; William Trudeau is on injured reserve.
Nashville won two of three against Vegas last season, including 4-2 at T-Mobile Arena on December 31, the night Stamkos scored his 600th goal. Vegas won the other game in Las Vegas 7-2 on January 17, with five goals in the third period.
The special-teams profile is the strongest part of this team. A 29.82% power play paired with an 88.46% penalty kill is the reason Nashville has stayed in games against better rosters, and four of its last six results were decided by a single goal.
Probable lineup Vegas Golden Knights: Not announced at time of publication
Probable lineup Nashville Predators: Not announced at time of publication
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Our prediction: Vegas Golden Knights to win (moneyline)
Vegas has 26 points from 19 games and beat this Nashville team by three goals a month ago. Nashville comes in on its third game in four nights after two road games in Southern California.
The Predators’ 29.82% power play against a 75.00% kill is the real risk, and Nashville’s four-game run is no accident with Saros at .912. I still trust the deeper Vegas lineup at home and the fresher legs.
No moneylines were posted at the time of writing. I’d take Vegas at 1.45 or longer.
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