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Vegas Golden Knights at Los Angeles Kings

Dec 8, 2018 · STAPLES Center

Team Goals Shots
Vegas Golden Knights 1 30
Los Angeles Kings 5 25

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
04:23 VGK Oscar Lindberg (1) Tomas Nosek (4), Ryan Carpenter (6) 1 - 0
08:12 LAK Nikita Scherbak (1) Jake Muzzin (7) 1 - 1
2nd Period
12:30 LAK Matt Luff (5) PP Brendan Leipsic (4), Adrian Kempe (5) 1 - 2
16:46 LAK Jeff Carter (6) Drew Doughty (15), Derek Forbort (6) 1 - 3
3rd Period
02:48 LAK Derek Forbort (1) Tyler Toffoli (8), Michael Amadio (1) 1 - 4
18:33 LAK Nate Thompson (2) Jake Muzzin (8), Michael Amadio (2) 1 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
06:37 LAK Nate Thompson Tripping 2
11:48 VGK Brayden McNabb Hooking 2
18:47 LAK Nikita Scherbak Roughing 2
3rd Period
03:37 LAK Anze Kopitar Holding the stick 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Vegas Golden Knights 53 41 30 1 2.6 54.1
Los Angeles Kings 41 36 25 5 2.0 45.9

How the game went

1510505Start2nd3rdLos Angeles Kings aheadVegas Golden Knights ahead

The gap in shot attempts as the game went on: how many more one team had taken than the other. The line is above the middle and red while Los Angeles Kings had taken more, and below it and blue while Vegas Golden Knights had.

Expected goals

Vegas Golden Knights: 2.6 expected, 1 scored · Los Angeles Kings: 2.0 expected, 5 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndVGK goal, 4:23 of 1st, a 15% chanceLAK goal, 8:12 of 1st, a 4% chanceLAK goal, 12:30 of 2nd, a 13% chanceLAK goal, 16:46 of 2nd, a 5% chanceLAK goal, 2:48 of 3rd, a 3% chanceLAK goal, 18:33 of 3rd, a 7% chanceVGK 2.6LAK 2.0

Each line climbs with every chance a team had: a small step for a shot from far out, a big one for a dangerous chance. A dot is a goal. Expected goals adds up how likely each shot was to go in, judged by where it was taken from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. Blocked shots and the shootout are not counted. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

Where the attempts came from

Vegas Golden Knights
Los Angeles Kings

There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from.

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Max Pacioretty · Cody Eakin · Alex Tuch13:2047.128.90-1
Reilly Smith · William Karlsson · Jonathan Marchessault12:3660.063.40-1
Oscar Lindberg · Ryan Carpenter · Tomas Nosek9:5873.393.81-1
Ryan Reaves · William Carrier · Pierre-Edouard Bellemare8:3955.679.10-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nick Holden · Colin Miller13:3176.986.91-0
Deryk Engelland · Shea Theodore13:0935.743.20-1
Brayden McNabb · Nate Schmidt13:0750.057.90-1

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

xG is the expected goals of a skater's own shots. CF-CA and xGF-xGA are the shot attempts and the expected goals for and against while he was on the ice at five-on-five. For a goalie, xGA is what the shots he faced were expected to produce, and the last column is how many of those he saved. What these numbers mean

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
24 Oscar Lindberg L 1 0 1 0 0 4 4 12:29 0.34 15-4 0.80-0.05
22 Ryan Carpenter C 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 12:03 0.41 11-4 0.78-0.05
92 Tomas Nosek L 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 13:39 11-8 0.78-0.13
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 1 14:22 0.06 13-10 0.62-0.37
5 Deryk Engelland D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 17:04 0.02 16-21 0.54-0.93
5 Nick Holden D 0 0 0 1 0 4 3 19:41 0.08 22-5 1.01-0.38
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 22:54 0.15 13-6 1.09-0.19
19 Reilly Smith R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 16:51 0.15 13-11 0.44-0.50
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 17:03 13-9 0.21-0.48
27 Shea Theodore D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 19:37 0.06 14-19 0.78-0.70
28 William Carrier L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 6 09:19 0.29 6-4 0.64-0.17
41 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 11:11 0.04 5-12 0.64-0.68
67 Max Pacioretty L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 20:10 10-17 0.22-1.03
71 William Karlsson C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 17:43 0.22 17-10 0.66-0.46
75 Ryan Reaves R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 12:25 0.30 5-11 0.64-0.63
81 Jonathan Marchessault R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 19:17 0.09 15-14 0.63-0.50
88 Nate Schmidt D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 0 22:32 0.11 14-17 0.53-0.92
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 20:58 0.28 17-13 0.43-0.56
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury 25 20 5 60:00 1.95 -3.05

Los Angeles Kings

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Dustin Brown · Anze Kopitar · Alex Iafallo14:2744.440.20-0
Tyler Toffoli · Nikita Scherbak · Adrian Kempe9:0155.049.21-1
Jeff Carter · Brendan Leipsic · Matt Luff8:2545.551.80-0
Nate Thompson · Kyle Clifford · Michael Amadio5:3130.030.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Drew Doughty · Derek Forbort17:5037.030.82-0
Jake Muzzin · Alec Martinez14:0350.050.61-0
Dion Phaneuf · Oscar Fantenberg13:3039.123.50-1

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
27 Derek Forbort D 1 1 2 2 0 1 3 22:42 0.03 10-17 0.41-0.93
8 Jake Muzzin D 0 2 2 2 0 0 3 20:55 17-14 1.08-0.81
22 Michael Amadio R 0 2 2 3 0 0 1 13:04 0.02 9-12 0.41-0.81
21 Nikita Scherbak R 1 0 1 0 2 3 1 13:32 0.23 12-10 0.50-0.56
39 Matt Luff R 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 13:50 0.58 8-12 0.47-0.47
44 Nate Thompson C 1 0 1 3 2 1 2 12:26 0.07 9-11 0.41-0.75
77 Jeff Carter C 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 14:29 0.11 7-10 0.49-0.60
8 Drew Doughty D 0 1 1 3 0 0 3 24:53 0.04 15-18 0.63-0.99
9 Adrian Kempe R 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 14:18 0.06 14-16 0.53-0.64
28 Brendan Leipsic L 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 13:44 0.08 11-14 0.54-0.48
73 Tyler Toffoli C 0 1 1 2 0 5 1 16:06 0.15 14-12 0.58-0.62
3 Dion Phaneuf D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 16:57 12-16 0.46-0.65
5 Oscar Fantenberg D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 17:23 0.04 12-15 0.26-0.55
9 Alex Iafallo L 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 17:01 0.25 8-10 0.30-0.44
11 Anze Kopitar C 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 20:52 0.09 10-12 0.36-0.46
23 Dustin Brown R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 19:32 0.00 11-12 0.38-0.50
25 Alec Martinez D 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 16:28 12-12 0.66-0.64
43 Kyle Clifford L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 05:48 0.22 4-7 0.26-0.51
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
32 Jonathan Quick 30 29 1 60:00 2.56 +1.56