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Colorado Avalanche at Vegas Golden Knights

Dec 27, 2025 · T-Mobile Arena

Team Goals Shots
Colorado Avalanche 6 39
Vegas Golden Knights 5 25

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:43 VGK Alexander Holtz (1) Noah Hanifin (10), Tomas Hertl (14) 0 - 1
2nd Period
00:34 VGK Ivan Barbashev (12) Mitch Marner (30) 0 - 2
05:19 COL Samuel Girard (3) Sam Malinski (16), Valeri Nichushkin (14) 1 - 2
10:27 COL Martin Necas (17) Sam Malinski (17), Samuel Girard (7) 2 - 2
11:36 VGK Ben Hutton (5) Alexander Holtz (1), Noah Hanifin (11) 2 - 3
12:05 VGK Brett Howden (7) Reilly Smith (5), Jeremy Lauzon (5) 2 - 4
3rd Period
03:52 COL Martin Necas (18) Nathan MacKinnon (32) 3 - 4
08:21 COL Nathan MacKinnon (31) Sam Malinski (18), Gabriel Landeskog (13) 4 - 4
16:00 VGK Colton Sissons (3) Keegan Kolesar (6), Kaedan Korczak (6) 4 - 5
18:03 COL Artturi Lehkonen (14) Nathan MacKinnon (33), Brock Nelson (12) 5 - 5
Shootout
COL Nathan MacKinnon Shootout winner 6 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
11:30 COL Cale Makar Delaying game puck over glass 2
14:58 VGK Zach Whitecloud Hooking 2
3rd Period
05:52 COL Team Too many men on the ice 2
10:36 COL Josh Manson Interference 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Colorado Avalanche 98 71 39 5 4.2 68.3
Vegas Golden Knights 48 38 25 5 3.5 31.7

How the game went

50403020100Start2nd3rdOTVegas Golden Knights aheadColorado Avalanche 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 Colorado Avalanche had.

Expected goals

Colorado Avalanche: 4.2 expected, 5 scored · Vegas Golden Knights: 3.5 expected, 5 scored

01234Start2nd3rdOTCOL goal, 5:19 of 2nd, a 3% chanceCOL goal, 10:27 of 2nd, a 4% chanceCOL goal, 3:52 of 3rd, a 3% chanceCOL goal, 8:21 of 3rd, a 45% chanceCOL goal, 18:03 of 3rd, a 17% chanceVGK goal, 2:43 of 1st, a 12% chanceVGK goal, 0:34 of 2nd, a 24% chanceVGK goal, 11:36 of 2nd, a 5% chanceVGK goal, 12:05 of 2nd, a 7% chanceVGK goal, 16:00 of 3rd, a 20% chanceCOL 4.2VGK 3.5

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

Colorado Avalanche
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.

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Gabriel Landeskog · Nathan MacKinnon · Martin Necas15:2365.061.33-1
Brock Nelson · Artturi Lehkonen · Valeri Nichushkin10:4377.385.40-1
Victor Olofsson · Ross Colton · Gavin Brindley5:0833.34.80-0
Parker Kelly · Jack Drury · Joel Kiviranta4:4942.922.90-2
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Devon Toews · Cale Makar15:3972.540.91-2
Samuel Girard · Sam Malinski14:2280.097.82-0
Brent Burns · Josh Manson13:4539.344.40-2

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
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 1 2 3 2 0 9 1 25:28 1.30 40-15 1.58-1.02
70 Sam Malinski D 0 3 3 3 0 3 0 19:11 0.12 34-8 1.39-0.03
88 Martin Necas C 2 0 2 3 0 4 1 21:09 0.27 26-15 1.24-0.78
49 Samuel Girard D 1 1 2 1 0 2 0 16:41 0.04 30-8 1.24-0.23
62 Artturi Lehkonen L 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 20:36 0.81 32-8 1.25-0.15
11 Brock Nelson C 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 23:52 0.40 33-6 1.27-0.13
43 Valeri Nichushkin R 0 1 1 -1 0 7 0 20:03 0.45 30-6 1.13-0.37
92 Gabriel Landeskog L 0 1 1 2 0 3 1 20:04 0.16 30-15 1.26-1.02
7 Devon Toews D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 25:39 0.26 37-12 1.06-1.22
8 Cale Makar D 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 24:39 0.07 32-12 0.90-1.22
17 Parker Kelly C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 09:01 0.06 7-8 0.12-0.38
18 Jack Drury C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 11:38 0.13 10-10 0.26-0.38
22 Joel Kiviranta L 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 05:34 6-8 0.11-0.38
42 Josh Manson D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 4 18:37 19-18 0.90-0.87
54 Gavin Brindley C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 08:14 4-7 0.11-0.78
79 Ross Colton C 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 09:51 0.08 11-8 0.35-0.78
84 Brent Burns D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 1 17:53 12-19 0.70-1.08
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11:40 0.04 17-7 0.60-0.76
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Scott Wedgewood W 25 20 5 64:10 3.39 -1.61

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tomas Hertl · Pavel Dorofeyev · Alexander Holtz13:2330.028.12-1
Mark Stone · Ivan Barbashev · Mitch Marner11:0425.933.21-1
Reilly Smith · Brett Howden · Braeden Bowman9:0650.073.31-1
Brandon Saad · Colton Sissons · Keegan Kolesar9:0229.245.81-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brayden McNabb · Kaedan Korczak18:1437.242.72-3
Ben Hutton · Noah Hanifin17:5331.949.92-0
Jeremy Lauzon · Zach Whitecloud13:0825.020.01-1

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
26 Alexander Holtz R 1 1 2 1 0 2 0 18:55 0.23 9-25 0.36-0.94
15 Noah Hanifin D 0 2 2 2 0 3 0 26:01 0.06 15-32 1.16-1.16
15 Colton Sissons C 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 11:37 0.74 7-22 0.85-1.04
17 Ben Hutton D 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 20:51 0.18 15-32 1.16-1.16
21 Brett Howden C 1 0 1 -1 0 2 1 16:29 0.21 11-14 0.64-0.24
49 Ivan Barbashev L 1 0 1 0 0 3 4 16:11 0.33 8-23 0.43-0.77
5 Jeremy Lauzon D 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 14:13 7-21 0.14-0.55
6 Kaedan Korczak D 0 1 1 -2 0 0 2 23:13 16-29 1.02-1.38
19 Reilly Smith R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 12:38 0.05 12-12 0.66-0.24
48 Tomas Hertl C 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 20:21 0.17 13-22 0.45-0.92
55 Keegan Kolesar R 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 10:50 0.01 7-21 0.85-1.15
93 Mitch Marner R 0 1 1 -1 0 1 0 20:44 0.18 7-24 0.38-0.90
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 3 21:21 0.00 16-29 1.02-1.38
16 Pavel Dorofeyev R 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 20:21 0.22 11-26 0.37-0.94
20 Brandon Saad L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 11:14 0.08 7-21 0.85-1.15
28 Zach Whitecloud D 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 13:47 0.01 7-23 0.14-0.56
42 Braeden Bowman R 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 12:43 0.97 12-12 0.66-0.23
61 Mark Stone R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 21:31 0.06 10-22 0.44-0.77
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
79 Carter Hart OTL 39 34 5 65:00 4.03 -0.97