Fifty Vegas serves as a symbolic number for Golden Nights that is in Game 1 of the first -round series of its Western Conference in Game 1 of the Ver. Visiting Minnesota Wilde on Sunday night.
The Pacific Division Champion (50–22–10, 110 digits) hit the 50-win mark for the third time in the history of eight years of the organization. The first twice in-2017-18 and 2022-23 went ahead in the Golden Nights Stanley Cup finals. He hoisted the cup in 2023 after topping Florida Panthers in five matches.
Vegas coach Bruce Cassidi says his team should contact the best-seven chains with the top wild-card team, Wilde (45–30-7, 97 points) in the west, with a 2023 champion with the same wish to succeed.
“At the end of the day, for me, this is the team that plays the best and hungry,” Cassidi said. “Before you win a cup, you are very hungry to get there. We have to feel that we were feeling two years ago.”
Vegas is a heavy favorite for defeating the wild – and for good reasons. Golden Nights has won nine out of the last 11 meetings, including all three of the three sports of this season.
Center Jack Echell, who had a career-high 94 points and 66 assistance, made a hat trick to win 5–1 by Golden Nights at the last meeting at St. Paul, Minte on 25 March. In the 2023 title run, a prominent Cog Goltender Edin Hill had 23 saves.
In 2023, the second round of game 3 against Hill Edmonton Olers came to the Laurent Brossit and proceeded 11–4 with a 2.17 goal-average average and two shutouts. In this season as Golden Nights No. 1, he left 32–13–5 with four shutouts in 50 games.
“It will be fun, especially starting the first game here at home,” Hill said. “I feel good about my game. In some small areas of course I think I can improve a little, but it now goes out of the window, and a new season starts on Sunday.”
Minnesota required more than 3–2 win over visiting Anahem Duck in the conclusion of its regular season to close their 11th playoff berths in the last 12 sessions. Wilde, which required a point to achieve a playoff spot, left it in regulation on a goal by Joel Ericson EK with 20.9 seconds.
Minnesota overcame the loss of Star Winger Kiril Kapreijov for 41 Games – and Ericson EK to make the playoffs under stretch for six weeks. Kaparizov, who has 10 goals and 15 points in the 16 regular sessions of game against Wegas, and Ericson EK played in just one regular season game against each Golden Nights. Both are considered healthy in playoffs.
Two players who raised the stretch for Wilde, Matt Boldi (team-leading 73 points and 27 goals) and Defenseman Brock Faber, who led the team on ice with an average of 25 minutes, 31 seconds per game to the team. He also acted for the United States in the 4 nations face-off tournament.
Wild head coach John Hines said, “We have many opportunities to test ourselves, and some of them have come through, and some of them that we have not done.” “So, I think for us to go to the series, we have to fight there, and it is not going to separate in the series.”
Hines believe that this will be a physical, tight-checking chain with Vegas.
“Never mind, it’s going to be a challenging series for the playoffs,” said Hines. “This is not going to be a beauty pageant. It is going to be a difficult-score game.”
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