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Vegas Golden Knights at Los Angeles Kings

Dec 29, 2018 · STAPLES Center

Team Goals Shots
Vegas Golden Knights 4 32
Los Angeles Kings 1 31

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
04:55 VGK William Carrier (8) Cody Eakin (10), Nick Holden (9) 1 - 0
19:55 LAK Anze Kopitar (9) Sean Walker (2), Alex Iafallo (12) 1 - 1
2nd Period
12:26 VGK Alex Tuch (13) Paul Stastny (3) 2 - 1
3rd Period
03:20 VGK William Karlsson (15) Nate Schmidt (9) 3 - 1
17:28 VGK Paul Stastny (4) Alex Tuch (16), Nate Schmidt (10) 4 - 1

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
00:54 VGK Alex Tuch Holding 2
08:36 VGK Jon Merrill Hooking 2
3rd Period
19:08 LAK Brendan Leipsic Delaying game puck over glass 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Vegas Golden Knights 67 50 32 4 3.5 56.3
Los Angeles Kings 51 41 31 1 2.6 43.8

How the game went

2520151050Start2nd3rdLos 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: 3.5 expected, 4 scored · Los Angeles Kings: 2.6 expected, 1 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndVGK goal, 4:55 of 1st, a 10% chanceVGK goal, 12:26 of 2nd, a 19% chanceVGK goal, 3:20 of 3rd, a 18% chanceVGK goal, 17:28 of 3rd, a 56% chanceLAK goal, 19:55 of 1st, a 34% chanceVGK 3.5LAK 2.6

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
Reilly Smith · William Karlsson · Jonathan Marchessault14:0953.660.61-0
Paul Stastny · Brandon Pirri · Alex Tuch10:5760.052.01-0
Ryan Reaves · Pierre-Edouard Bellemare · Tomas Nosek9:3964.783.30-0
Cody Eakin · William Carrier · Ryan Carpenter9:3155.028.61-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brayden McNabb · Nate Schmidt17:4744.745.22-1
Deryk Engelland · Shea Theodore15:5966.743.70-0
Nick Holden · Jon Merrill15:4663.363.11-0

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
26 Paul Stastny C 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 12:50 17-11 0.73-0.67
89 Alex Tuch R 1 1 2 2 2 4 0 14:11 0.51 18-12 0.73-0.76
88 Nate Schmidt D 0 2 2 2 0 1 2 21:19 0.01 18-27 0.81-1.12
28 William Carrier L 1 0 1 0 0 1 4 12:09 0.10 12-14 0.36-1.08
71 William Karlsson C 1 0 1 1 0 6 0 18:07 0.45 20-16 0.94-0.55
5 Nick Holden D 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 18:32 0.04 20-12 0.94-0.50
20 Cody Eakin C 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 14:55 0.13 15-13 0.46-1.08
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 23:14 0.02 20-21 0.72-0.87
4 Jon Merrill D 0 0 0 2 2 3 0 17:33 0.13 22-11 0.99-0.50
5 Deryk Engelland D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 21:39 0.09 23-16 0.69-1.08
19 Reilly Smith R 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 17:12 0.13 18-13 0.77-0.43
22 Ryan Carpenter C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13:51 0.07 15-11 0.46-0.98
27 Shea Theodore D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 17:49 0.13 24-11 0.65-0.83
41 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:50 0.13 11-9 0.22-0.15
73 Brandon Pirri C 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 12:57 0.11 15-11 0.70-0.68
75 Ryan Reaves R 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12:23 0.04 13-13 0.42-0.27
81 Jonathan Marchessault R 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 16:47 0.30 19-15 0.87-0.56
92 Tomas Nosek L 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 15:42 0.08 15-9 0.30-0.12
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
32 Malcolm Subban W 31 30 1 60:00 2.58 +1.58

Los Angeles Kings

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Dustin Brown · Anze Kopitar · Alex Iafallo17:1138.957.01-0
Ilya Kovalchuk · Nate Thompson · Brendan Leipsic12:4146.256.30-1
Jeff Carter · Tyler Toffoli · Adrian Kempe11:0860.051.30-0
Kyle Clifford · Michael Amadio · Matt Luff6:1945.033.70-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jake Muzzin · Sean Walker18:3565.066.91-2
Drew Doughty · Derek Forbort17:2725.835.20-1
Paul LaDue · Oscar Fantenberg10:0622.721.20-0

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
11 Anze Kopitar C 1 0 1 -1 0 2 1 22:02 0.48 16-24 0.89-0.77
9 Alex Iafallo L 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 20:09 0.20 16-24 0.89-0.78
26 Sean Walker D 0 1 1 -1 0 5 0 18:44 0.35 27-14 1.62-0.80
5 Oscar Fantenberg D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 14:54 0.01 8-23 0.24-0.44
8 Jake Muzzin D 0 0 0 -1 0 5 4 23:30 0.09 31-17 1.72-1.07
8 Drew Doughty D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 27:30 0.18 14-31 0.71-1.08
9 Adrian Kempe R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:36 0.12 9-7 0.52-0.50
17 Ilya Kovalchuk L 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 16:53 0.38 15-18 0.76-0.51
22 Michael Amadio R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 07:35 0.11 9-15 0.26-0.56
23 Dustin Brown R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 22:11 0.10 14-23 0.79-0.60
27 Derek Forbort D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 18:57 0.01 10-23 0.47-0.83
28 Brendan Leipsic L 0 0 0 -1 2 1 1 15:29 0.06 12-17 0.59-0.46
34 Paul LaDue D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12:15 0.01 8-18 0.11-0.47
39 Matt Luff R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 07:42 9-14 0.26-0.56
43 Kyle Clifford L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 06:43 0.08 9-11 0.26-0.52
44 Nate Thompson C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 15:27 0.07 12-17 0.59-0.50
73 Tyler Toffoli C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 1 17:25 0.34 14-9 0.80-0.73
77 Jeff Carter C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17:14 12-10 0.70-0.56
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
32 Jonathan Quick L 31 28 3 59:52 2.50 -0.50