Vegas Golden Knights (2-1, in the Pacific Division) vs. Seattle Kraken (2-1, in the Pacific Division)

Seattle; Tuesday, 9:40 p.m. EDT

BOTTOM LINE: The Seattle Kraken host the Vegas Golden Knights after Matthew Samoskevich scored two goals in the Kraken's 6-1 win over the Calgary Flames.

Seattle went 16-9-1 in Pacific Division games and had a 34-37-11 record overall last season. The Kraken averaged 2.7 goals on 25.5 shots per game last season.

Vegas had a 39-26-17 record overall and went 19-7-6 in Pacific Division games last season. The Golden Knights scored 58 power-play goals last season on 237 total chances (2.9 chances per game).

INJURIES: Kraken: Jake O'Brien: out (lower-body), Jacob Melanson: out (upper body).

Golden Knights: Raphael Lavoie: day to day (undisclosed).

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.