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San Jose Sharks at Vegas Golden Knights

Dec 23, 2025 · T-Mobile Arena

Team Goals Shots
San Jose Sharks 2 23
Vegas Golden Knights 7 26

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
01:46 VGK Brett Howden (6) Braeden Bowman (7), Reilly Smith (4) 0 - 1
09:07 VGK Mitch Marner (8) PP Noah Hanifin (9), Pavel Dorofeyev (9) 0 - 2
11:37 VGK Colton Sissons (2) Keegan Kolesar (5), Brandon Saad (4) 0 - 3
14:57 VGK Tomas Hertl (15) Pavel Dorofeyev (10) 0 - 4
18:34 VGK Mark Stone (8) Ivan Barbashev (15), Kaedan Korczak (4) 0 - 5
2nd Period
06:49 SJS Macklin Celebrini (19) Tyler Toffoli (14) 1 - 5
18:50 VGK Reilly Smith (5) Kaedan Korczak (5), Braeden Bowman (8) 1 - 6
3rd Period
05:22 VGK Mitch Marner (9) Mark Stone (21), Ivan Barbashev (16) 1 - 7
08:04 SJS Collin Graf (10) Tyler Toffoli (15), Alexander Wennberg (16) 2 - 7

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
07:58 SJS Shakir Mukhamadullin Slashing 2
12:13 VGK Zach Whitecloud Interference 2
12:23 SJS William Eklund High sticking 2
2nd Period
08:02 SJS William Eklund Tripping 2
3rd Period
14:44 SJS Mario Ferraro Roughing 2
20:00 VGK Ben Hutton Slashing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
San Jose Sharks 44 35 23 2 1.9 53.7
Vegas Golden Knights 48 42 26 7 4.2 46.3

How the game went

0510152025Start2nd3rdVegas 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: 1.9 expected, 2 scored · Vegas Golden Knights: 4.2 expected, 7 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndSJS goal, 6:49 of 2nd, a 10% chanceSJS goal, 8:04 of 3rd, a 4% chanceVGK goal, 1:46 of 1st, a 18% chanceVGK goal, 9:07 of 1st, a 7% chanceVGK goal, 11:37 of 1st, a 5% chanceVGK goal, 14:57 of 1st, a 21% chanceVGK goal, 18:34 of 1st, a 19% chanceVGK goal, 18:50 of 2nd, a 10% chanceVGK goal, 5:22 of 3rd, a 24% chanceVGK 4.2SJS 1.9

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

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
Ryan Reaves · Barclay Goodrow · Zack Ostapchuk9:2644.415.20-0
Macklin Celebrini · Collin Graf · Igor Chernyshov9:1237.522.70-0
Tyler Toffoli · Alexander Wennberg · William Eklund9:0833.316.50-2
Jeff Skinner · Ty Dellandrea · Ethan Cardwell6:0655.614.00-3
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Dmitry Orlov · John Klingberg15:4354.246.40-2
Mario Ferraro · Shakir Mukhamadullin15:0256.545.90-2
Nick Leddy · Sam Dickinson13:5431.613.31-2

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
73 Tyler Toffoli C 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 15:24 0.07 13-14 0.36-0.71
51 Collin Graf R 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 17:26 0.04 7-6 0.14-0.26
71 Macklin Celebrini C 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 20:04 0.33 18-10 1.03-0.69
21 Alexander Wennberg C 0 1 1 -1 0 1 2 17:38 0.00 12-17 0.55-0.85
3 John Klingberg D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 19:58 0.09 21-12 0.78-0.79
4 Nick Leddy D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 19:46 12-16 0.62-1.51
6 Sam Dickinson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18:22 12-13 0.34-1.51
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 4 21:22 0.00 16-11 0.94-0.71
10 Ty Dellandrea C 0 0 0 -3 0 0 2 11:38 0.14 8-6 0.24-1.13
23 Barclay Goodrow C 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 13:37 0.06 6-5 0.13-0.35
27 William Eklund L 0 0 0 -1 4 5 1 19:09 0.79 22-21 1.44-1.53
38 Mario Ferraro D 0 0 0 -2 2 1 0 20:44 0.02 14-12 0.61-0.72
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 -4 0 0 1 09:02 0.09 9-6 0.25-0.88
56 Ethan Cardwell R 0 0 0 -4 0 1 0 09:48 0.01 9-10 0.48-1.46
63 Zack Ostapchuk C 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 10:41 0.03 7-5 0.14-0.35
75 Ryan Reaves R 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 11:20 6-5 0.19-0.35
85 Shakir Mukhamadullin D 0 0 0 -2 2 2 0 20:02 0.04 13-12 0.61-0.80
92 Igor Chernyshov L 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 16:50 0.23 16-9 0.92-0.50
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
33 Alex Nedeljkovic 10 7 3 45:03 1.77 -1.23
30 Yaroslav Askarov L 16 12 4 14:57 2.25 -1.75

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tomas Hertl · Pavel Dorofeyev · Alexander Holtz11:3347.663.31-1
Brandon Saad · Colton Sissons · Keegan Kolesar9:4953.381.21-0
Reilly Smith · Brett Howden · Braeden Bowman9:2856.365.32-0
Mark Stone · Ivan Barbashev · Mitch Marner9:0072.798.32-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brayden McNabb · Kaedan Korczak14:5960.088.12-1
Ben Hutton · Noah Hanifin14:2840.039.11-0
Jeremy Lauzon · Zach Whitecloud14:0445.865.42-1

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
93 Mitch Marner R 2 0 2 2 0 5 1 16:53 0.80 10-5 0.93-0.07
19 Reilly Smith R 1 1 2 2 0 1 0 13:56 0.10 9-8 0.62-0.33
61 Mark Stone R 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 15:48 0.34 8-4 0.90-0.06
6 Kaedan Korczak D 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 20:19 13-15 1.28-0.35
16 Pavel Dorofeyev R 0 2 2 0 0 5 0 17:26 0.98 11-12 0.96-0.56
42 Braeden Bowman R 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 12:31 10-7 0.63-0.33
49 Ivan Barbashev L 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 11:34 0.05 9-8 0.93-0.48
15 Colton Sissons C 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 13:03 0.22 8-13 0.50-0.58
21 Brett Howden C 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 15:47 0.45 9-13 0.62-0.63
48 Tomas Hertl C 1 0 1 -1 0 3 0 17:52 0.72 11-13 0.96-0.67
15 Noah Hanifin D 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 21:23 0.13 12-15 0.82-0.94
20 Brandon Saad L 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 14:19 0.07 9-12 0.50-0.48
55 Keegan Kolesar R 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 14:16 0.19 9-18 0.50-0.94
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 17:15 13-9 1.28-0.34
5 Jeremy Lauzon D 0 0 0 2 0 1 4 19:26 0.03 14-18 1.13-0.58
17 Ben Hutton D 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 20:29 0.02 12-18 0.61-1.19
26 Alexander Holtz R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 18:13 0.02 11-19 1.00-0.72
28 Zach Whitecloud D 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 17:30 0.06 12-13 0.92-0.49
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
79 Carter Hart W 23 21 2 60:00 1.88 -0.12