Coyotes at Golden Knights preview

COYOTES (0-1-1) at GOLDEN KNIGHTS (2-0-0)
10 p.m. ET; NBCSN, SN360, SNE, SNO, SNW, TVA Sports, NHL.TV

The Golden Knights opened the season with a 2-1 win at the Dallas Stars on Friday and then defeated the Coyotes 2-1 in overtime in Arizona on Saturday.
Before the game the Golden Knights will honor the victims and first responders that were involved in the Oct. 1 shooting that killed 58 people.
The Coyotes have two one-goal losses to start the season. In addition to their game against the Golden Knights, they lost 5-4 to the Anaheim Ducks on Oct. 5 after leading 4-1 with 6:10 remaining in the second period.

Players to Watch

Coyotes goaltender Antti Raanta is 15-3-6 in 27 career games against Pacific Division teams. He had 40 saves against the Golden Knights on Saturday.
Forward James Neal leads the Golden Knights with three goals, including the winning goal in their first two games.

They said it

"We expect them to come out with a lot of energy and we know they will get a lot of fan support. The key for us is we've just got to treat it like any other road game. It feels a little weird going to Las Vegas. It's something new. But it's a business trip. Our job is to play hockey no matter where the game is. That's what we're going to do." -- Coyotes defenseman Kevin Connauton
"I'm not going to say a lot about it. I'm going to say the hockey stuff. I'm going to try to make it feel like a regular game day as much as possible. That's my job." -- Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant

Coyotes projected lineup

Max Domi -- Derek Stepan -- Clayton Keller
Mario Kempe
-- Christian Dvorak -- Anthony Duclair
Brendan Perlini -- Nick Cousins -- Christian Fischer
Lawson Crouse -- Brad Richardson -- Tobias Rieder
Oliver Ekman-Larsson -- Niklas Hjalmarsson
Alex Goligoski -- Jason Demers
Kevin Connauton -- Luke Schenn
Antti Raanta
Louis Domingue
Scratched:Adam Clendening, Zac Rinaldo
Injured:Jakob Chychrun (knee), Jordan Martinook (lower body)

Golden Knights projected lineup

Reilly Smith -- Jonathan Marchessault -- Oscar Lindberg
David Perron -- Cody Eakin --
James Neal
William Karlsson -- Erik Haula -- Brendan Leipsic
Tomas Nosek -- Pierre-Edouard Bellemare -- William Carrier
Brayden McNabb -- Deryk Engelland
Colin Miller -- Jason Garrison
Luca Sbisa -- Nate Schmidt
Marc-Andre Fleury
Malcolm Subban
Scratched:Griffin Reinhart, Jon Merrill, Brad Hunt
Injured:Clayton Stoner (lower body)

Status report

Kempe, who was called up from Tucson of the American Hockey League on Monday, will play his first NHL game. The 29-year-old rookie was picked by the Philadelphia Flyers in the fifth round (No. 122) of the 2007 NHL Draft and played five AHL games in 2008-09 but spent the past eight seasons playing in Europe. He signed a one-year, two-way contract with the Coyotes on May 16. ... Fleury will start for the third straight game.

Stat pack

The Coyotes have killed all eight opposition power plays in their two games. … The Golden Knights went 0-for-11 on the power play in their first two games.