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Yesterday we showed which teams each Golden Knight lights up, today we’re looking at the players that have given Vegas troubles. Here’s the leading goal and point scorer against VGK for every team and the top two in points per game.

• Anze Kopitar remains the undisputed VGK killer. His 12 goals, 20 assists, and 32 points all rank #1 against the Golden Knights.
• Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl are good.
• Evander Kane (BUF), Kirby Dach (MTL), and Vinnie Hinostroza (CHI) all average 3.00 points per game vs. VGK for the team listed.
• Mark Stone and Jack Eichel remain in the top two in all three categories for their former team.
• Kyler Connor and Mark Scheifele are the only two players with a clean sweep, ranking one and two in all three categories for the Jets.
• Dylan Strome is the leader in points per game for Washington (1.50) and goals for Chicago (4).
• Filip Forsberg (9 goals in 12 games), Auston Matthews (8 goals in 9 games), and Mika Zibanejad (8 goals in 10 games) have all been major thorns in VGK’s side.
• Logan Couture has scored three OT goals against VGK.
• Jakob Pelletier, Gabriel Fortier, Hudson Fasching, Ben Street, Nikolay Kulemin, and Henrik Zetterberg all have 100% shooting percentages against Vegas. Only Zetterberg scored twice.

Anaheim Ducks
Goals
Adam Henrique 9
Max Comtois 6

Points
Adam Henrique 15
Rickard Rakell 11

Points Per Game
Trevor Zegras 1.29
Benois-Olivier Groulx/Colton White/Sonny Milano/Ben Street/Francois Beauchemin 1.00

Arizona Coyotes
Goals
Nick Schmaltz 7
Derek Stepan/Clayton Keller 5

Points
Clayton Keller 15
Nick Schmaltz 13

Points Per Game
Michael Carcone 1.00
Derek Stepan 0.83

Boston Bruins
Goals
David Pastrnak 6
Brad Marchand 5

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The Golden Knights have now competed in the NHL for six complete seasons. With this has come 455 regular season games including at least eight against every other team in the league. I went through VGK’s history against every team to find the leading goal scorer, point scorer, and the players with the most points per game.

First though, here are some interesting facts from the research.

• Jonathan Marchessault is VGK’s leading goal scorer against more than half of the teams in the league (16 of 31)
  • William Karlsson is the closest with eight
  • Marchessault is alone in first place against 10 teams
• David Perron is in first or second in points per game against 12 different opponents
• William Carrier is second in goals against the Senators and Lightning
• Jack Eichel ranks 10th all-time in VGK goals, yet is the leader against Columbus
• Luca Sbisa is tied for most points per game against three different opponents (CGY, COL, DET)
• The most goals a player has scored against Tampa Bay is three. Five players have done it, five more are also tied for second with two
• The most points scored by one player against a single team is 28 by Jonathan Marchessault against San Jose, the most goals is 14 for William Karlsson against Anaheim
• Brandon Pirri, Brendan Leipsic, Cody Glass, Daniil Miromanov, Dylan Coghlan, Cody Eakin, Brayden Pachal, Daniel Carr, Brad Hunt, Byron Froese, Kaedan Korczak, Tomas Hyka… and of course, Vadim Shipachyov all appear on this list
  

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Anaheim Ducks
Goals
William Karlsson 14
Nic Roy/Jonathan Marchessault 8

Points
William Karlsson 22
Mark Stone 21

Points Per Game
James Neal 1.33
Mark Stone 1.31

Arizona Coyotes
Goals
Mark Stone 8
Max Pacioretty/Reilly Smith 7

Points
William Karlsson 22
Mark Stone 21

Points Per Game
Evgenii Dadonov 1.33
David Perron/Daniil Miromanov/Dylan Coghlan 1.00

Boston Bruins
Goals
Jonathan Marchessault/Mark Stone/Max Pacioretty 3
Paul Cotter/Cody Eakin/Reilly Smith 2

Points
Mark Stone 7
Jonathan Marchessault 6

Points Per Game
Mark Stone 1.40
Paul Cotter/Cody Glass/Vadim Shipachyov/Jack Eichel/Nate Schmidt/Alex Pietrangelo 1.00

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The Golden Knights have 12 games left in the regular season, one that could go down in history as their winningest ever. Currently sitting at 92 points, VGK need to collect 17 more points to tie the 2017-18 team that finished with 109. That’s just one of many potential franchise highs the team and individuals on it can set.

Team Records

Points
Record – 109 (17-18)
Current – 92

Need: 9 wins would clinch the most points in team history. They could also go 8-3-1, 7-2-3, or 6-1-5 to tie.

Wins
Record – 51 (17-18)
Current – 43

Need: 8 to tie, 9 to break the record.

Goals
Record – 268 (17-18)
Current – 227

Need: 41 goals requires the Golden Knights to average 3.41 per game. This season, VGK are currently averaging 3.24. The goals per game record is 3.39, which was set in 2020-21 (the 56-game season).

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