Are the Golden Knights underperforming or are the standards lower?

The only consistent thing about the Vegas Golden Knights in 2025-26 is how inconsistent they’ve been. The team is 32-26-14 with 78 points through 72 games, third in the Pacific Division but they’re 3-7-0 in their last 10 games, including a 4-1 loss to the Winnipeg Jets Tuesday night.

With 10 games left in the season, a playoff spot isn’t guaranteed for the Golden Knights, as the Los Angeles Kings and Seattle Kraken are hot on their tail.

On Wednesday’s episode of Daily Faceoff LIVE, Tyler Yaremchuk and former NHL goaltender Carter Hutton discuss the Golden Knights’ struggles and what’s the root cause in their lack of success.

Tyler Yaremchuk: (The Golden Knights have) had these two-game spurts where you go, “hey, is Vegas back?” Then they have a two- or three-game run where they look old and slow and disjointed and they get inconsistent goaltending. The problems have just piled up here.

They’re 15th in goals and 14th in goals against … are they really underperforming or is this just who they are?

Carter Hutton: I think that’s a concerning factor. When you looked at this team early on, it felt like everything was clicking in the right direction.

Mitch Marner hasn’t really been the answer here, either. There’s been some good outlier stories for the team, like Pavel Dorofeyev and the amount of offense he’s created. But then you look at some of these moves these made and things just haven’t really fit.

For Adin Hill, it is concerning. Outside of that run where he went to the Stanley Cup Final, he’s been very inconsistent. Look at him getting the Stanley Cup, the contract, and Logan Thompson being moved to the Washington Capitals. If you’re sitting here now, you think you made the wrong decision.

You can watch the full segment and the rest of the episode here…