Los Angeles (0-1-0) vs Vegas (0-0-0)
October 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM EDT
The Line: Betting Odds: Vegas -1.5 — Over/Under: +5.5
The Los Angeles Kings and Vegas Golden Knights meet Wednesday in NHL action at T-Mobile Center. Here’s a Los Angeles Kings vs Vegas Golden Knights Prediction. This article will include a Los Angeles Kings vs Vegas Golden Knights Pick.
Los Angeles Kings Betting Preview
The Los Angeles Kings lost to the Avalanche 4-1 last night and jump right back into a new game. The Kings hope to avoid starting a season with two losses for the third time in the last four years.
The Los Angeles Kings are averaging 1 goal per game and are scoring 25 percent of their power play opportunities. Kevin Fiala leads Los Angeles with 1 goal, Anze Kopitar has 1 assist, and Quinton Byfield has 4 shots on goal. Defensively, the Los Angeles Kings are allowing 4 goals per game and are killing 85.3 percent of their opponent’s power plays. Darcy Kuemper has given up 4 goals on 23 shots faced.
Vegas Golden Knights Betting Preview
The Vegas Golden Knights have made the playoffs in 7 of their 8 years and enter this season as a legit title contender. Vegas has topped 90 points in 6 of their 8 seasons.
Vegas made the splash by adding Mitch Marner, who has 221 career goals and 520 assists, and now he gets to play with Jack Eichel and Ivan Barbashev. Throw in Mark Stone and Tomas Hertl, and Vegas will have arguably the best top line in the sport and should have no trouble scoring goals this season. There are questions at goalie and the injury to Alex Pietrangelo does raise concerns defensively, but in terms of offensive firepower and the ability to score its way out of trouble, the Golden Knights are in good hands. They should be able to simply will their way to victory many nights.
Why the Vegas Golden Knights will win
- The Golden Knights have won each of their last seven games at T-Mobile Arena against opponents on a losing streak.
- The Kings have lost each of their last five games against Western Conference opponents.
- The Golden Knights have covered the puck line in each of their last eight games at T-Mobile Arena against opponents on a losing streak.
- The Kings have failed to cover the puck line in four of their last five games.
- The Golden Knights have won the third period in each of their last four games as favorites against Pacific Division opponents when trailing after the second period.
Why the Los Angeles Kings will win
- The Golden Knights have lost four of their last five games as home favorites.
- The underdogs have won each of the Golden Knights’ last three games at T-Mobile Arena.
- The Golden Knights have failed to cover the puck line in each of their last eight games as favorites against Pacific Division opponents.
- The Kings have covered the puck line in nine of their last 10 road openers.
Total Goals Facts
- Seven of the Kings’ last eight road games against Pacific Division opponents have gone OVER the total goals line.
- Each of the last four night games between the Kings and Golden Knights have gone OVER the total goals line.
- Five of the last six night games between teams from the same division have gone UNDER the total goals line.
- The ‘Over 1.5 Goals Period 3′ market has hit in 21 of the Golden Knights’ last 22 games as home favorites against opponents on a losing streak.
- The ‘Over 1.5 Goals Period 3′ market has hit in each of the Kings’ last nine games against Western Conference opponents.
Vegas Golden Knights Player Prop Facts
- Mark Stone has scored at least one goal in three of his last four appearances with the Golden Knights as favorites against Western Conference opponents.
- Mark Stone has recorded at least one point in each of the Golden Knights’ last seven games against the Kings.
- Kaedan Korczak has recorded an assist in each of the Golden Knights’ last four games against the Kings.
- Mitch Marner ranked T3rd in the league for multi-point games (32) last season.
Los Angeles Kings Player Prop Facts
- Adrian Kempe has scored at least one goal in each of the Kings’ last seven Wednesday night games against Pacific Division opponents.
- Phillip Danault has recorded at least one assist in each of the Kings’ last six road games.
- Phillip Danault has recorded at least one point in each of the Kings’ last seven road games against Pacific Division opponents.
- Kevin Fiala ranked T7th in the league for multi-goal games (7) last season.
Matchup/League Facts
- The Vegas Golden Knights were one of only three teams in the league to rank top 5 for both goals for and goals against per game last season.
- The Vegas Golden Knights ranked 5th in the league for goals per game last season (3.34).
- The Los Angeles Kings ranked 8th in the league in penalty kill percentage last season (81.43%).
- The Los Angeles Kings suffered the equal-most losses when tied after Period 2 last season (12).
Los Angeles Kings vs Vegas Golden Knights Injury Report
The Kings will be without Corey Perry and Kyle Burroughs.
The Vegas Golden Knights don’t have any players on their injury report.
Los Angeles Kings vs Vegas Golden Knights Prediction
The Kings have won three straight games against Vegas and have a defense that travels, so the plus money is worth a look. However, the season just started, and the Kings are already being thrown into a back-to-back. Even with camp and preseason, guys are still getting their legs under them and getting back in the swing of things. This isn’t an ideal spot for the Kings, and a talented offensive side in Vegas could take advantage of potential tired, sluggish legs. I’ll roll with Vegas and the PL for max betting value.