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Vegas Golden Knights at Calgary Flames

Dec 20, 2025 · Scotiabank Saddledome

Team Goals Shots
Vegas Golden Knights 3 37
Calgary Flames 6 26

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
03:54 CGY Mikael Backlund (8) Blake Coleman (6), Connor Zary (4) 0 - 1
08:42 CGY Adam Klapka (3) Yan Kuznetsov (4), MacKenzie Weegar (7) 0 - 2
10:03 VGK Reilly Smith (4) Mark Stone (20), Zach Whitecloud (4) 1 - 2
15:45 CGY Ryan Lomberg (2) Connor Zary (5), John Beecher (2) 1 - 3
2nd Period
08:38 CGY Mikael Backlund (9) MacKenzie Weegar (8), Connor Zary (6) 1 - 4
12:21 CGY Joel Farabee (9) SH MacKenzie Weegar (9) 1 - 5
14:34 VGK Kaedan Korczak (3) Mitch Marner (27), Tomas Hertl (11) 2 - 5
3rd Period
16:03 VGK Mark Stone (7) PP Noah Hanifin (5), Mitch Marner (28) 3 - 5
19:15 CGY Jonathan Huberdeau (7) Mikael Backlund (12), Blake Coleman (7) 3 - 6

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
15:49 CGY Ryan Lomberg Fighting 5
15:49 VGK Jeremy Lauzon Fighting 5
2nd Period
11:07 CGY Morgan Frost Tripping 2
3rd Period
15:50 CGY Yan Kuznetsov High sticking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Vegas Golden Knights 69 57 37 3 3.6 52.7
Calgary Flames 57 42 26 6 3.3 47.3

How the game went

105051015Start2nd3rdCalgary Flames 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 Calgary Flames had taken more, and below it and blue while Vegas Golden Knights had.

Expected goals

Vegas Golden Knights: 3.6 expected, 3 scored · Calgary Flames: 3.3 expected, 6 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndVGK goal, 10:03 of 1st, a 21% chanceVGK goal, 14:34 of 2nd, a 10% chanceVGK goal, 16:03 of 3rd, a 5% chanceCGY goal, 3:54 of 1st, a 24% chanceCGY goal, 8:42 of 1st, a 26% chanceCGY goal, 15:45 of 1st, a 18% chanceCGY goal, 8:38 of 2nd, a 20% chanceCGY goal, 12:21 of 2nd, a 18% chanceCGY goal, 19:15 of 3rd, a 73% chanceVGK 3.6CGY 3.3

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

Vegas Golden Knights
Calgary Flames

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 · Mark Stone · Brett Howden10:1661.167.71-0
Colton Sissons · Keegan Kolesar · Cole Reinhardt8:3225.021.70-0
Brandon Saad · Ivan Barbashev · Braeden Bowman8:2242.146.00-0
Tomas Hertl · Mitch Marner · Pavel Dorofeyev8:0762.569.51-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brayden McNabb · Kaedan Korczak17:0071.080.51-1
Noah Hanifin · Zach Whitecloud12:0745.851.81-1
Ben Hutton · Noah Hanifin8:2776.562.80-0

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
61 Mark Stone R 1 1 2 -2 0 3 0 15:41 0.10 14-9 0.70-0.45
93 Mitch Marner R 0 2 2 -3 0 1 0 19:01 0.14 20-17 0.91-1.09
6 Kaedan Korczak D 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 21:08 0.33 24-11 1.40-0.37
19 Reilly Smith R 1 0 1 -1 0 2 0 13:46 0.48 14-11 0.61-0.57
15 Noah Hanifin D 0 1 1 -2 0 4 1 24:39 0.08 25-17 1.18-0.94
28 Zach Whitecloud D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 2 19:44 0.09 18-20 1.00-1.04
48 Tomas Hertl C 0 1 1 -2 0 6 0 18:59 0.80 24-16 1.31-0.62
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 17:57 0.11 22-10 1.35-0.51
5 Jeremy Lauzon D 0 0 0 -1 5 0 4 13:31 0.01 10-25 0.33-0.87
15 Colton Sissons C 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 12:32 0.04 11-10 0.49-0.22
16 Pavel Dorofeyev R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 17:20 0.40 23-15 1.07-0.54
17 Ben Hutton D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 19:20 0.01 18-23 0.53-0.99
20 Brandon Saad L 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 16:16 0.54 23-15 1.49-0.61
21 Brett Howden C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 13:51 0.02 13-11 0.76-0.76
29 Cole Reinhardt L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 12:39 0.08 4-11 0.14-0.44
42 Braeden Bowman R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 14:47 0.05 10-15 0.38-0.76
49 Ivan Barbashev L 0 0 0 -2 0 3 3 16:56 0.25 11-16 0.33-0.76
55 Keegan Kolesar R 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 13:12 0.05 11-13 0.49-0.25
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Akira Schmid L 25 20 5 58:41 2.47 -2.53

Calgary Flames

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mikael Backlund · Blake Coleman · Connor Zary12:3150.052.92-1
Nazem Kadri · Joel Farabee · Yegor Sharangovich11:2653.840.40-0
Jonathan Huberdeau · Morgan Frost · Matt Coronato10:2436.831.60-1
Ryan Lomberg · John Beecher · Adam Klapka7:3533.322.60-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
MacKenzie Weegar · Yan Kuznetsov20:3834.039.32-1
Rasmus Andersson · Kevin Bahl18:0846.941.71-1
Joel Hanley · Hunter Brzustewicz13:2372.052.70-0

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 Mikael Backlund C 2 1 3 2 0 5 0 19:24 0.71 17-24 1.01-1.37
47 Connor Zary C 0 3 3 2 0 1 0 16:14 0.17 16-18 1.15-1.25
52 MacKenzie Weegar D 0 3 3 2 0 2 3 22:51 0.01 20-31 1.27-1.28
20 Blake Coleman L 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 17:00 0.10 14-14 0.88-0.78
10 Jonathan Huberdeau L 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 15:00 0.08 11-13 0.40-0.68
43 Adam Klapka R 1 0 1 1 0 1 6 12:47 0.27 12-13 0.48-0.69
86 Joel Farabee L 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 16:29 0.27 18-19 0.40-0.72
94 Ryan Lomberg L 1 0 1 1 5 1 0 10:50 0.18 7-8 0.25-0.24
18 John Beecher C 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 10:36 0.05 6-7 0.25-0.23
37 Yan Kuznetsov D 0 1 1 2 2 0 2 22:38 0.11 16-31 0.83-1.28
4 Rasmus Andersson D 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 22:43 0.00 16-18 0.85-1.07
7 Kevin Bahl D 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 23:24 0.02 19-20 1.21-1.32
16 Morgan Frost C 0 0 0 -1 2 2 0 13:45 0.06 13-14 0.44-0.69
17 Yegor Sharangovich C 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 16:36 0.16 18-19 0.66-0.69
27 Matt Coronato R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 13:13 0.26 9-14 0.42-0.72
44 Joel Hanley D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14:05 18-8 0.32-0.29
48 Hunter Brzustewicz D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 14:39 0.11 18-10 0.32-0.54
91 Nazem Kadri C 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15:33 0.00 17-14 0.66-0.60
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Devin Cooley W 37 34 3 60:00 3.43 +0.43