Vegas Golden Knights at Winnipeg Jets, NHL forecast
- The pick
- VGK · Toss-up
- Line
- Not yet
- Projected
- 3–3
- Fair odds
- -113
Your pick
The short version
- No betting line is up yet, so this is our pre-line forecast: the Golden Knights at 53%, from our Elo ratings and what past lines said about each team. It switches to the line once one posts.
- Behind that number: the Golden Knights rate higher (1539 to 1483 Elo) and the Jets have home ice.
What's at stake
Each team's chance to make the playoffs if it wins this game and if it loses, from 10,000 simulations of the rest of the season.
Golden Knights
Now 95%
95%
with a win
93%
with a loss
This game is worth 2 points of playoff chance to them.
Jets
Now 28%
31%
with a win
25%
with a loss
This game is worth 6 points of playoff chance to them.
The pick
No line is posted yet, so this is the pre-line forecast: Elo blended with ratings learned from past lines. It switches to the line once one is posted.
Golden Knights 53%
Forecast Elo ratings alone
How often that comes true: NHL favorites the forecast gave 50–55% have won 51.2% of 926 graded games.
- Market
- No line yet
- Pre-line forecast
- VGK 53%
- Elo + market-implied
- Elo ratings
- VGK 53%
- Fair odds
- VGK -113
- WPG +113 · the forecast as odds, no margin
- Projected score
- VGK 3.2 – 3.0 WPG
- Margin from the forecast, total from team scoring ratings
How the number is built
Elo inputs in rating points (higher favors that team; 25–28 Elo is about a point of spread in football and basketball), then how the pieces combine.
| Factor | VGK | WPG | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team rating | 1539 | 1483 | Elo entering the game; 1500 is league average |
| Home field | — | +35 | Worth 35 Elo in the NHL |
| Starting goalies | — | — | VGK: Starter not announced · WPG: Starter not announced |
| Elo ratings | VGK +21 Elo | VGK 53.0% | |
| Market-implied ratings | VGK 53.0% | Team strength as past closing lines priced it, same game context | |
| Pre-line forecast | VGK 53.0% | 20% Elo, 80% market-implied (log-odds blend) | |
Tale of the tape
This season coming into the game, regular season, each number with its league rank (the longer the bar, the higher). Home and road: the host's record at home against the visitor's on the road. Overtime and shootout losses count as losses in these records. Opponent Elo: how strong the teams each has played are, 1st the toughest. Shot share is a team's share of the shots on goal in its games. PDO adds shooting and save percentages: far from 100 tends to even out.
| VGK | Stat | WPG |
|---|---|---|
| 12th of 323.4 | Goals scored | 2.826th of 32 |
| 5th of 322.7 | Goals allowed | 3.422nd of 32 |
| 6th of 32+0.7 | Margin | −0.627th of 32 |
| 10th of 3252.5% | Shot share | 49.3%17th of 32 |
| 7th of 3290.2% | Save percentage | 88.4%25th of 32 |
| 14th of 325–5 | Last 10 | 4–621st of 32 |
| 6th of 326–4 | Road vs home | 5–520th of 32 |
| 27th of 321488 | Opponent Elo | 15185th of 32 |
| 5th of 321539 | Elo rating | 148322nd of 32 |
Rating history
Each team's Elo over the last two seasons. Hover or drag to compare on any date.
Injury report
Current ESPN report. Elo values show what the model subtracts.
Golden Knights
2 listedNoah Hanifin D
Outout
Parker Wotherspoon D
Injured Reserveir
Jets
3 listedElias Salomonsson D
Injured Reserveir-nr
Vladislav Namestnikov C
Injured Reserveir
Nick Bjugstad C
Injured ReserveBjugstad (pectoral), Dawson Mercer, Nico Daws, Alexander Command and a pair of draft picks were traded to the Jets from the Devils on Friday in exchange for Connor Hellebuyck.
Recent form
Last five results, and whether the forecast hit.
Against the line
How each team has done against the closing spread and total, coming into this game.
| This season |  VGK |  WPG |
|---|---|---|
| Puck line | 8–11 | 11–8 |
| Last 10 | 4–6 | 6–4 |
| Favorite | 7–10 | 1–4 |
| Underdog | 1–1 | 10–4 |
| Overs–unders | 11–8 | 9–10 |
| Overs–unders, last 10 | 4–6 | 6–4 |
Against each game's closing line. Books set every line knowing these records: across 3,901 past games, the team with the better record against the spread so far that season covered 51.2%, short of the 52.4% a standard −110 bet needs, and over/under streaks held 48.0% of the time. They describe the past.
Head to head
VGK 7–2 WPG in their last 9 meetings; the forecast called 3 of 9.