The Round 1 matchups for the Stanley Cup Playoffs are set in the East and after Thursday night they will also be set in the West.
The Vegas Golden Knights and Los Angeles Kings are still battling it out for who gets the Pacific Division’s No. 3 seed and who will be the second wild-card team in the West.
The Edmonton Oilers and Dallas Stars will be their opponents in Round 1.
Both teams will take the ice, with the Golden Knights hosting the Anaheim Ducks and the Kings facing the Chicago Blackhawks.
Per the National Hockey League, the clinching scenarios for the No. 3 seed in the Pacific are as follows:
• Vegas will clinch if they defeat the Ducks in any fashion.
• Vegas will clinch if the earn one point against the Ducks and the Kings lose to the Blackhawks in regulation.
• Vegas will clinch if the Kings lose to the Blackhawks in regulation.
• Los Angeles will clinch if they defeat the Blackhawks in any fashion and the Golden Knights lose to the Ducks in any fashion.
• Los Angeles will clinch if they get one point against the Blackhawks and the Golden Knights lose to the Ducks in regulation.
The standings currently see the Kings sitting one point back of the Golden Knights, though Los Angeles holds the first tiebreaker due to having more regulation wins this season.
The two first-round matchups already set in the West are the Vancouver Canucks vs. the Nashville Predators and the Winnipeg Jets vs. the Colorado Avalanche.
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