Vegas plays its third game this week, while Anaheim opens its season against the Golden Knights.
The Vegas Golden Knights already have two games under their belt and will add a third one when they take on the Anaheim Ducks, who are opening their regular season schedule.
Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said the Golden Knights might have an advantage when it comes to game readiness.
"We're two games into [the regular season]. So we have a little bit of an advantage there," Cassidy said. "They haven't seen that kind of intensity yet. ... So hopefully that's where we get to our game quickly."
Alex Pietrangelo being out was the big news out of the morning skates. Pietrangelo was hit in the head by a Nicolas Hague shot in the team's 4-1 victory against the San Jose Sharks, and Cassidy said he wasn't feeling well. Kaeden Korczak will fill in for defenseman.
Here are the projected lines:
Ducks projected lineup
Forwards
Adam Henrique - Trevor Zegras - Troy Terry
Frank Vatrano - Mason McTavish - Ryan Strome
Max Jones - Bo Groulx - Jakob Silfverberg
Ross Johnston - Sam Carrick - Brett Leason
Defensemen
Cam Fowler - Jamie Drysdale
Jackson Lacombe - Radko Gudas
Pavel Mintyukov - Ilya Lyubushkin
Goalies
John Gibson
Lukas Dostal
Golden Knights projected lineup
Forwards
Ivan Barbashev - Jack Eichel - Jonathan Marchessault
Paul Cotter - Chandler Stephenson - Mark Stone
Pavel Dorofeyev - William Karlsson - Michael Amadio
Jonas Rondbjerg - Nicolas Roy - Keegan Kolesar
Defensemen
Brayden McNabb - Shea Theodore
Nicolas Hague - Kaedan Korczak
Ben Hutton - Brayden Pachal
Goalies
Adin Hill
Logan Thompson
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