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San Jose Sharks at Vegas Golden Knights

Mar 17, 2021 · T-Mobile Arena

Team Goals Shots
San Jose Sharks 4 33
Vegas Golden Knights 5 37

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
03:45 VGK Shea Theodore (5) Max Pacioretty (14) 0 - 1
2nd Period
06:21 SJS Matt Nieto (5) Timo Meier (13), Tomas Hertl (8) 1 - 1
07:57 SJS Mario Ferraro (1) John Leonard (5), Evander Kane (13) 2 - 1
15:07 SJS Kevin Labanc (8) Evander Kane (14), Mario Ferraro (9) 3 - 1
3rd Period
06:43 VGK Cody Glass (4) PP Shea Theodore (16), Mark Stone (24) 3 - 2
10:03 VGK Nicolas Hague (3) Jonathan Marchessault (12), William Karlsson (13) 3 - 3
12:27 VGK Ryan Reaves (1) Tomas Nosek (2), Zach Whitecloud (5) 3 - 4
14:46 VGK Alec Martinez (3) PP Tomas Nosek (3), Shea Theodore (17) 3 - 5
15:54 SJS Evander Kane (12) PP Erik Karlsson (8), Tomas Hertl (9) 4 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
04:41 SJS Fredrik Handemark High sticking 2
10:34 VGK Nicolas Roy Holding 2
13:23 SJS Kevin Labanc Delaying game puck over glass 2
18:45 SJS Nikolai Knyzhov Hooking 2
2nd Period
08:37 VGK Brayden McNabb Roughing 2
3rd Period
06:38 SJS Team Too many men on the ice 2
07:11 VGK Mark Stone Fighting 5
07:11 SJS Tomas Hertl Fighting 5
10:58 VGK Jonathan Marchessault Fighting 5
10:58 SJS Logan Couture Fighting 5
12:53 SJS Kevin Labanc Tripping 2
15:16 VGK Keegan Kolesar Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
San Jose Sharks 50 38 33 4 4.0 42.1
Vegas Golden Knights 64 48 37 5 3.2 57.9

How the game went

05101520Start2nd3rdVegas Golden Knights aheadSan Jose Sharks 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 Vegas Golden Knights had taken more, and below it and blue while San Jose Sharks had.

Expected goals

San Jose Sharks: 4.0 expected, 4 scored · Vegas Golden Knights: 3.2 expected, 5 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndSJS goal, 6:21 of 2nd, a 14% chanceSJS goal, 7:57 of 2nd, a 43% chanceSJS goal, 15:07 of 2nd, a 28% chanceSJS goal, 15:54 of 3rd, a 38% chanceVGK goal, 3:45 of 1st, a 2% chanceVGK goal, 6:43 of 3rd, a 38% chanceVGK goal, 10:03 of 3rd, a 3% chanceVGK goal, 12:27 of 3rd, a 9% chanceVGK goal, 14:46 of 3rd, a 12% chanceSJS 4.0VGK 3.2

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

San Jose Sharks
Vegas Golden Knights

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.

San Jose Sharks

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Logan Couture · Evander Kane · Kevin Labanc11:2458.872.11-0
Matt Nieto · Tomas Hertl · Timo Meier8:1230.864.21-1
Patrick Marleau · Dylan Gambrell · John Leonard6:4062.575.30-0
Kurtis Gabriel · Ryan Donato · Fredrik Handemark5:4133.384.50-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Erik Karlsson · Nikolai Knyzhov15:5325.040.80-3
Brent Burns · Mario Ferraro14:4062.190.33-0
Marc-Edouard Vlasic · Radim Simek11:3437.548.80-0

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
91 Evander Kane L 1 2 3 1 0 5 4 24:07 0.50 16-13 1.22-0.54
38 Mario Ferraro D 1 1 2 3 0 3 4 19:46 0.46 18-12 1.63-0.33
48 Tomas Hertl C 0 2 2 0 5 1 2 17:36 0.05 8-13 0.44-0.20
62 Kevin Labanc R 1 0 1 1 4 4 1 19:01 0.43 12-9 0.72-0.28
83 Matt Nieto L 1 0 1 -1 0 2 1 17:22 0.21 8-14 0.36-0.28
28 Timo Meier R 0 1 1 0 0 1 5 13:32 0.15 5-10 0.38-0.18
43 John Leonard L 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 10:50 0.37 7-3 0.87-0.11
65 Erik Karlsson D 0 1 1 -3 0 1 0 21:39 0.05 5-16 0.33-0.49
8 Ryan Donato C 0 0 0 -2 0 6 0 10:23 1.01 5-14 0.66-0.22
12 Patrick Marleau C 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 13:21 6-4 0.35-0.12
27 Dylan Gambrell C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 16:10 0.19 8-12 0.87-0.86
37 Fredrik Handemark C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 2 08:27 0.36 5-16 0.66-0.67
39 Logan Couture C 0 0 0 1 5 3 2 20:14 0.16 11-7 0.63-0.22
44 Marc-Edouard Vlasic D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16:10 9-15 0.63-0.67
51 Radim Simek D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 16:24 0.02 9-15 0.63-0.67
71 Nikolai Knyzhov D 0 0 0 -3 2 0 1 17:12 5-18 0.33-0.67
79 Kurtis Gabriel R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 07:27 5-17 0.66-0.68
84 Brent Burns D 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 24:34 18-13 1.63-0.36
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Devan Dubnyk L 37 32 5 58:27 3.21 -1.79

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Reilly Smith · William Karlsson · Jonathan Marchessault9:5458.823.01-1
Max Pacioretty · Mark Stone · Cody Glass9:4760.032.41-0
Ryan Reaves · William Carrier · Tomas Nosek5:2585.778.40-0
Tomas Jurco · Keegan Kolesar · Nicolas Roy3:4950.032.80-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alec Martinez · Shea Theodore13:0634.813.91-1
Nicolas Hague · Zach Whitecloud11:1656.331.82-1
Brayden McNabb · Dylan Coghlan7:1787.546.30-1

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 Shea Theodore D 1 2 3 0 0 6 0 26:02 0.25 12-16 0.46-1.54
92 Tomas Nosek L 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 15:23 0.00 14-3 0.30-0.12
12 Cody Glass C 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 17:29 0.40 11-6 0.40-0.48
25 Alec Martinez D 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 26:18 0.31 13-16 0.72-1.49
41 Nicolas Hague D 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 14:18 0.05 19-14 0.43-0.91
75 Ryan Reaves R 1 0 1 1 0 2 4 08:40 0.43 15-5 0.68-0.38
28 Zach Whitecloud D 0 1 1 1 0 4 2 16:24 0.12 19-14 0.45-0.91
61 Mark Stone R 0 1 1 0 5 1 2 20:42 0.26 11-13 0.40-0.99
67 Max Pacioretty L 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 20:39 0.26 11-13 0.39-0.99
71 William Karlsson C 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 21:52 0.45 12-9 0.40-0.76
81 Jonathan Marchessault R 0 1 1 0 5 1 1 15:37 0.08 11-9 0.28-0.80
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 5 17:46 12-2 0.21-0.19
10 Nicolas Roy C 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 12:33 10-7 0.65-0.61
13 Tomas Jurco R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 07:56 0.01 5-3 0.11-0.20
19 Reilly Smith R 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 19:20 0.32 12-8 0.32-0.71
28 William Carrier L 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 10:18 0.13 14-7 0.65-0.62
52 Dylan Coghlan D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 14:06 0.11 12-2 0.60-0.14
55 Keegan Kolesar R 0 0 0 -2 2 1 2 10:33 0.00 7-13 0.12-1.16
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury W 33 29 4 60:00 4.02 +0.02