SAN JOSE -- When the Sharks play the Vegas Golden Knights at SAP Center on Wednesday night, they’ll see plenty of familiar faces.
Vegas didn’t reveal its Game 1 lineup in an optional skate Wednesday morning, but the Golden Knights will largely have the same team that eliminated San Jose in Game 6 of the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs a year ago. Well, with three notable exceptions.
Forwards Max Pacioretty and Paul Stastny, whom the Golden Knights acquired in the offseason, and Mark Stone, traded for just before the February deadline, give Vegas a formidable trio of forwards in addition to William Karlsson, Jonathan Marchessault and Reilly Smith.