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On Tuesday night, as the third week of the 2021-22 NHL season begins, we have two exciting games on tap. Two Western juggernauts collide at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN when the Vegas Golden Knights host the Colorado Avalanche. The surprising San Jose Sharks take on the Nashville Predators at 8:30 p.m. ET on ESPN+ and Hulu.
We’ve put up a primer on all the important players to watch for both teams, as well as in-depth statistical data on the teams from ESPN Stats & Information, to help you get ready for the showdown.
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The Golden Knights have an 0-4-0 record. Chandler Stephenson is the team’s leading scorer (4 points)
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The Golden Knights are the only club yet to score on the power play (0-for-11), although they’ve only had three opportunities in any game this season. This season, only the Boston Bruins (3:36) have a lower percentage of power-play time per game than Vegas (3:48).
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When scoring the first goal, the Vegas Golden Knights are 1-3-0 this season, tied for the most regulation losses with the Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings. The Golden Knights were 31-3-2 when scoring first last season, with the most victories and the greatest win % in that circumstance.
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Since Stone’s debut in February 2019, the Golden Knights have been missing Max Pacioretty and Mark Stone, the team’s top two scorers (Stone: 138, Pacioretty: 128). When both Pacioretty and Stone are out (which has happened three times this season), the Golden Knights are 0-3-0, and 82-36-11 when both are available.
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Reilly Smith has 18 shots on goal but has yet to score, second most among NHL forwards with zero goals behind only Nikolaj Ehlers of Winnipeg, who has 22.
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Robin Lehner of the Golden Knights has a record of 1-4-0 this season, which equals his amount of regulation losses from last season’s 19 starts (13-4-2). Lehner’s all-situations save percentage of.904 is 29th in the NHL, and his even-strength save percentage of.903 is 37th.
Avalanche 2-3-0 record Mikko Rantanen and Nathan MacKinnon are the top scorers (5 points)
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Mikko Rantanen has a point in each of the season’s first five games, as well as goals in three of them. For the third time in his career, he wants to start a season with points in the first six games (in 2018-19 and 2019-20).
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Since the start of the 2017-18 season, Nathan MacKinnon has 359 points. Only Connor McDavid (439) and Leon Draisaitl (439) have more in that time frame (380). MacKinnon’s cap cost for this season and next, before he becomes an unrestricted free agent, is $6.3 million. According to CapFriendly, MacKinnon’s cap hit ranks 94th among active players.
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Since making his regular-season NHL debut in 2019-20, Cale Makar has averaged 0.92 points per game, which is the second-highest rate of any defender (minimum 100 games played), following only John Carlson.
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The Avalanche had the 30th highest power-play percentage in the league, with 10%. (2-for-20). Their two power-play goals are the fewest by the club through five games since 2014-15, when they just had one. Colorado scored 10 power-play goals in its first five games last season.
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Sharks have a 4-1-0 record. Logan Couture and Timo Meier are the top scorers (8 points)
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The Sharks are coming off a five-game road trip in which they went 3-1-0. According to NHL Stats & Info, the team has only had three seasons in which it has accumulated at least eight points in its first five road games: 4-1-0 in 1999-00, 4-1-0 in 2000-01, and 4-1-0 in 2011-12.
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San Jose is aiming for its first 5-1-0 (or better) start since 2013-14, when the Sharks started the season 6-0-0, and the franchise’s sixth 5-1-0 (or better) start ever.
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Logan Couture and Timo Meier each have points in each of their first five games of the season. It’s the first time since Brent Burns in 2016-17 that a Sharks player has opened the season with at least a five-game point streak. Couture and Patrick Marleau were the last Sharks players to go on a longer point run to start a season in 2013-14 (Marleau’s streak lasted the team’s opening eight games).
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Brent Burns, a defenseman in the NHL, has the most career goals (217) and points (726) among current blueliners. Burns earned the Norris Trophy as the top defender in 2016-17, then finished second in 2018-19 with 83 points, which lead all defensemen (a 1.01 points-per-game pace). His productivity has dropped in the last two seasons, to 0.64 points per game in 2019-20 and 0.52 points per game in 2020-21.
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Goaltender James Reimer, who has played for three different teams in the last four seasons, has saved 50 of 51 shots (.980 save percentage), the greatest save percentage of any goaltender who has appeared in multiple games this season. Adin Hill, who was acquired from the Arizona Coyotes in a trade in July and re-signed for two years in August, has a.890 save percentage to start the season. Hill’s even-strength save percentage is 1.5 percent behind expectations, according to Stathletes, and he ranks 33rd among 47 goalies who have appeared in at least one game this season.
The Predators have a 2-4-0 record. Roman Josi is the team’s leading scorer (7 points)
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The Predators defeated the Minnesota Wild 5-2 on Sunday, handing them their first loss of the season. Connor Ingram made his NHL debut, stopping 33 of 35 shots to join Pekka Rinne as the only Predators goalies to win in their first season.
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Nashville has made the playoffs in seven consecutive seasons, tying for the second-longest current run with the Washington Capitals and behind only the Pittsburgh Penguins (15). The Predators reached the Stanley Cup Final in 2017, but have only won one postseason series since then (2018 first round vs. the Avalanche).
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The Predators are 0-3-0 this season while behind after the first period, equal for the most such defeats with the Coyotes and the Seattle Kraken.
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Roman Josi and Kevin Shattenkirk are tied for the league lead in goals by defenseman (3) and points by defensemen (7 each), with Drew Doughty and Victor Hedman. Josi holds the record for most points for a player born in Switzerland (453).
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Juuse Saros will take over goaltender responsibilities in Nashville from Pekka Rinne, who announced his retirement this summer. Rinne is the all-time leader in games played (683), starts (667), wins (369), saves (17,627), and shutouts for the Predators (60). Saros is one of five Finnish goaltenders to appear in a game this season, including Mikko Koskinen of Edmonton, Kevin Lankinen of Chicago, Joonas Korpisalo of Columbus, and Kaapo Kahkonen of Minnesota. According to NHL Stats & Info, Finland and Russia are tied for fifth place with Sweden (six) among nations outside North America with the most goalies appearing in at least one game this season.
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Last season, Saros had a strong finish that helped the Predators reach the playoffs. With a.941 save percentage and 1.90 goals-against average in his last 23 regular-season appearances, he was 16-6-1.
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