Minnesota Wild at Vegas Golden Knights

1st Round, Game 1 · Apr 20, 2025 · T-Mobile Arena

Team	Goals	Shots
Minnesota Wild	2	20
Vegas Golden Knights	4	27

Scoring

Time	Team	Goal	Assists	Score
1st Period
15:22	VGK	Tomas Hertl (1)	Alex Pietrangelo (1), Brandon Saad (1)	0 - 1
17:42	MIN	Matt Boldy (1)	Kirill Kaprizov (1), Ryan Hartman (1)	1 - 1
2nd Period
13:33	VGK	Pavel Dorofeyev (1) PP	Shea Theodore (1), Tomas Hertl (1)	1 - 2
3rd Period
02:28	VGK	Brett Howden (1)	Nicolas Roy (1), Noah Hanifin (1)	1 - 3
11:46	MIN	Matt Boldy (2)	Kirill Kaprizov (2)	2 - 3
19:59	VGK	Brett Howden (2) PP	Unassisted	2 - 4

Penalties

Time	Team	Player	Penalty	Min
2nd Period
13:27	MIN	Joel Eriksson Ek	High sticking	2
3rd Period
07:13	VGK	Brayden McNabb	Boarding	2
18:59	MIN	Matt Boldy	Tripping	2

Shot attempts

Team	Attempts (Corsi)	Unblocked (Fenwick)	On goal	Goals	Expected goals	5-on-5 CF%
Minnesota Wild	70	43	20	2	2.0	51.5
Vegas Golden Knights	66	48	27	4	3.1	48.5

How the game went

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 Minnesota Wild had.

Expected goals

Minnesota Wild: 2.0 expected, 2 scored · Vegas Golden Knights: 3.1 expected, 4 scored

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.

Where the attempts came from

Minnesota Wild

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.

Minnesota Wild

Lines and pairings

Forward line	Time	CF%	xGF%	Goals
Joel Eriksson Ek · Kirill Kaprizov · Matt Boldy	17:04	58.7	72.0	0-1
Marcus Johansson · Mats Zuccarello · Frederick Gaudreau	8:29	31.8	27.3	0-1
Gustav Nyquist · Marcus Foligno · Marco Rossi	7:09	30.0	0.4	0-0
Ryan Hartman · Yakov Trenin · Justin Brazeau	5:47	45.5	55.5	0-0

Defence pair	Time	CF%	xGF%	Goals
Jonas Brodin · Brock Faber	23:50	53.8	53.5	0-1
Jared Spurgeon · Jake Middleton	17:12	50.0	27.7	0-0
Zach Bogosian · Zeev Buium	9:32	40.0	38.6	1-1

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
12	Matt Boldy	L	2	0	2	1	2	2	6	22:32	0.35	32-21	0.82-0.32
97	Kirill Kaprizov	L	0	2	2	1	0	1	1	21:57	0.00	30-21	0.81-0.25
38	Ryan Hartman	R	0	1	1	2	0	3	1	14:38	0.29	21-12	0.70-0.63
7	Brock Faber	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	27:57	0.05	37-27	1.19-0.99
8	Zeev Buium	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	13:27	0.02	13-16	0.46-0.73
13	Yakov Trenin	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	10:45	0.21	9-13	0.41-0.76
14	Gustav Nyquist	R	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	10:18	0.04	8-9	0.18-0.38
14	Joel Eriksson Ek	C	0	0	0	-1	2	4	2	21:06	0.21	30-21	0.69-0.32
16	Justin Brazeau	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	08:56		6-11	0.31-0.54
17	Marcus Foligno	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	12:05		5-10	0.01-0.40
23	Marco Rossi	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	12:10	0.13	8-9	0.20-0.38
24	Zach Bogosian	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	10:02		10-15	0.46-0.73
25	Jonas Brodin	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	25:53	0.10	29-26	0.93-0.89
36	Mats Zuccarello	R	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	19:02	0.27	21-22	0.62-1.29
46	Jared Spurgeon	D	0	0	0	1	0	3	3	20:15	0.14	26-21	0.54-0.93
55	Jake Middleton	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	19:16		19-20	0.29-0.83
89	Frederick Gaudreau	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	12:15	0.01	8-21	0.35-1.22
90	Marcus Johansson	L	0	0	0	-1	0	1	2	17:09	0.17	23-20	0.71-1.16

#	Goalie	Decision	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	TOI	xGA	Saved above xG
32	Filip Gustavsson	L	26	23	3	59:11	2.68	-0.32

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward line	Time	CF%	xGF%	Goals
Mark Stone · Ivan Barbashev · Jack Eichel	12:50	33.3	44.4	0-0
Reilly Smith · William Karlsson · Victor Olofsson	11:51	34.8	35.6	0-1
Brandon Saad · Tomas Hertl · Pavel Dorofeyev	11:02	79.2	96.3	1-0
Keegan Kolesar · Nicolas Roy · Brett Howden	10:46	40.7	40.6	1-0

Defence pair	Time	CF%	xGF%	Goals
Brayden McNabb · Shea Theodore	17:33	33.3	43.3	0-0
Alex Pietrangelo · Noah Hanifin	16:09	63.4	78.9	2-1
Nicolas Hague · Zach Whitecloud	15:31	57.7	59.4	0-0

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
21	Brett Howden	C	2	0	2	1	0	4	3	14:12	0.21	13-20	0.36-0.67
48	Tomas Hertl	C	1	1	2	1	0	4	4	13:58	0.20	23-6	0.88-0.03
16	Pavel Dorofeyev	R	1	0	1	1	0	3	0	13:23	0.56	22-5	0.95-0.03
7	Alex Pietrangelo	D	0	1	1	1	0	2	1	21:03	0.06	28-20	1.28-0.48
10	Nicolas Roy	C	0	1	1	1	0	2	0	13:15	0.10	14-17	0.38-0.53
15	Noah Hanifin	D	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	22:19	0.02	29-23	1.31-0.60
20	Brandon Saad	L	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	14:22	0.33	24-10	1.04-0.17
27	Shea Theodore	D	0	1	1	-1	0	1	0	19:41	0.11	17-33	0.81-1.10
3	Brayden McNabb	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	20:20	0.03	19-37	0.81-1.19
9	Jack Eichel	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	1	17:12	0.24	16-25	0.96-0.82
19	Reilly Smith	R	0	0	0	-2	0	0	2	14:07		10-16	0.28-0.47
28	Zach Whitecloud	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	19:21	0.05	17-13	0.47-0.36
41	Nicolas Hague	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	17:44	0.02	16-12	0.43-0.29
49	Ivan Barbashev	L	0	0	0	-1	0	1	3	15:28	0.14	17-25	0.87-0.82
55	Keegan Kolesar	R	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	13:56	0.02	16-18	0.61-0.53
61	Mark Stone	R	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	17:16	0.34	15-24	0.71-0.77
71	William Karlsson	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	16:14	0.04	10-15	0.33-0.42
95	Victor Olofsson	L	0	0	0	-1	0	1	2	14:09	0.21	9-16	0.28-0.42

#	Goalie	Decision	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	TOI	xGA	Saved above xG
33	Adin Hill	W	20	18	2	60:00	1.97	-0.03