Projected Lineups for the Golden Knights vs Red Wings – 3/16/25

The Vegas Golden Knights take on the Detroit Red Wings this afternoon at Little Caesars Arena. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

GOLDEN KNIGHTS (39-19-8) at RED WINGS (31-29-6)

1 p.m. ET; SCRIPPS, MAX, truTV, TNT, SN1, TVAS

Golden Knights projected lineup

Ivan Barbashev — Jack Eichel — Mark Stone
Reilly Smith — Tomas Hertl — Victor Olofsson
Pavel Dorofeyev — Nicolas Roy — Brandon Saad
Tanner Pearson — Brett Howden — Keegan Kolesar

Nicolas Hague — Alex Pietrangelo
Noah Hanifin — Zach Whitecloud
Brayden McNabb — Kaedan Korczak

Ilya Samsonov
Adin Hill

Scratched: Ben Hutton, Cole Schwindt, Jonas Rondbjerg

Injured: William Karlsson (lower body), Raphael Lavoie (upper body), Shea Theodore (upper body)

Status Report:

Samsonov is likely to start after Hill made 34 saves in a 4-3 shootout loss at the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday.

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Red Wings projected lineup

Elmer Soderblom — Dylan Larkin — Lucas Raymond
Patrick Kane — Marco Kasper — Alex DeBrincat
Vladimir Tarasenko – J.T. Compher – Craig Smith
Michael Rasmussen — Tyler Motte – Dominik Shine

Ben Chiarot — Moritz Seider
Simon Edvinsson — Albert Johansson
Erik Gustafsson — Justin Holl

Cam Talbot
Petr Mrazek

Scratched: William Lagesson, Alex Lyon, Jonatan Berggren

Injured: Jeff Petry (undisclosed), Andrew Copp (upper body)

Status report:

The Red Wings did not practice Saturday.

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