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Minnesota Wild at Vegas Golden Knights

Dec 29, 2025 · T-Mobile Arena

Team Goals Shots
Minnesota Wild 5 27
Vegas Golden Knights 2 16

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
00:26 MIN Marcus Johansson (12) Jonas Brodin (8), Jared Spurgeon (8) 1 - 0
14:06 MIN Matt Boldy (25) Joel Eriksson Ek (19), Marcus Johansson (18) 2 - 0
2nd Period
00:26 MIN Jared Spurgeon (3) Marcus Johansson (19), Jonas Brodin (9) 3 - 0
04:32 MIN Brock Faber (8) Yakov Trenin (10), Kirill Kaprizov (24) 4 - 0
06:56 MIN Joel Eriksson Ek (10) Matt Boldy (22), Marcus Johansson (20) 5 - 0
16:50 VGK Brayden McNabb (2) Ivan Barbashev (17), Pavel Dorofeyev (11) 5 - 1
3rd Period
02:14 VGK Mark Stone (9) Ivan Barbashev (18), Mitch Marner (31) 5 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
02:13 VGK Tomas Hertl Boarding 5
02:13 VGK Tomas Hertl Game misconduct 10
09:39 MIN Nico Sturm High sticking 2
16:40 MIN Jake Middleton Hooking 2
2nd Period
00:26 VGK Team Delaying game unsuccessful challenge 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Minnesota Wild 58 44 27 5 2.7 51.6
Vegas Golden Knights 51 30 16 2 2.4 48.4

How the game went

10864202Start2nd3rdVegas Golden Knights aheadMinnesota Wild 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 Minnesota Wild had.

Expected goals

Minnesota Wild: 2.7 expected, 5 scored · Vegas Golden Knights: 2.4 expected, 2 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndMIN goal, 0:26 of 1st, a 7% chanceMIN goal, 14:06 of 1st, a 14% chanceMIN goal, 0:26 of 2nd, a 4% chanceMIN goal, 4:32 of 2nd, a 1% chanceMIN goal, 6:56 of 2nd, a 8% chanceVGK goal, 16:50 of 2nd, a 3% chanceVGK goal, 2:14 of 3rd, a 11% chanceMIN 2.7VGK 2.4

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 lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mats Zuccarello · Kirill Kaprizov · Danila Yurov10:5133.325.00-0
Marcus Foligno · Yakov Trenin · Nico Sturm9:3028.634.10-1
Vladimir Tarasenko · Vinnie Hinostroza · Ryan Hartman8:0566.742.20-1
Marcus Johansson · Joel Eriksson Ek · Matt Boldy7:5785.787.34-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Quinn Hughes · Brock Faber15:1446.240.21-1
Jared Spurgeon · Jonas Brodin12:4147.161.52-0
Zach Bogosian · Jake Middleton12:3156.544.81-1

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
90 Marcus Johansson L 1 3 4 4 0 3 0 13:46 0.10 13-4 0.65-0.19
12 Matt Boldy L 1 1 2 4 0 2 0 16:14 0.36 14-5 0.80-0.12
14 Joel Eriksson Ek C 1 1 2 4 0 2 1 16:18 0.18 13-4 0.65-0.10
46 Jared Spurgeon D 1 1 2 2 0 1 0 19:35 0.23 11-13 0.48-0.41
25 Jonas Brodin D 0 2 2 3 0 1 0 17:24 0.02 14-12 0.44-0.32
7 Brock Faber D 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 21:33 0.01 17-14 0.48-0.53
13 Yakov Trenin C 0 1 1 0 0 1 8 14:24 0.11 11-17 0.28-0.52
97 Kirill Kaprizov L 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 19:41 0.54 11-17 0.26-0.70
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 14:05 0.04 9-16 0.41-0.49
22 Danila Yurov R 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 16:11 11-16 0.26-0.70
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 16:29 0.05 18-14 0.96-1.07
24 Vinnie Hinostroza C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 11:24 0.27 15-6 0.55-0.69
36 Mats Zuccarello R 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 18:34 0.29 8-15 0.22-0.67
38 Ryan Hartman R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 13:01 0.09 13-8 0.50-0.76
43 Quinn Hughes D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 23:01 0.01 18-18 0.60-0.82
55 Jake Middleton D 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 17:30 0.03 16-17 0.71-1.00
78 Nico Sturm C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 3 12:26 0.18 9-16 0.41-0.52
91 Vladimir Tarasenko R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 14:47 0.20 14-8 0.52-0.76
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
32 Filip Gustavsson W 16 14 2 59:37 2.35 +0.35

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mark Stone · Ivan Barbashev · Mitch Marner10:2263.281.21-0
Brandon Saad · Colton Sissons · Keegan Kolesar6:5050.037.80-0
Reilly Smith · Brett Howden · Braeden Bowman6:0430.00.00-3
Mark Stone · Brandon Saad · Mitch Marner1:3166.7100.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brayden McNabb · Kaedan Korczak14:1745.837.00-0
Jeremy Lauzon · Zach Whitecloud8:5236.05.90-2
Ben Hutton · Noah Hanifin7:4266.780.11-3

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
49 Ivan Barbashev L 0 2 2 2 0 1 2 18:02 0.58 17-13 1.36-0.44
3 Brayden McNabb D 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 23:45 0.11 17-16 0.81-0.48
61 Mark Stone R 1 0 1 2 0 3 1 20:15 0.90 18-11 1.51-0.29
16 Pavel Dorofeyev R 0 1 1 -1 0 3 2 15:53 0.34 18-16 0.49-0.62
93 Mitch Marner R 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 21:22 0.12 19-12 1.60-0.30
5 Jeremy Lauzon D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 7 17:06 0.02 12-19 0.13-0.81
6 Kaedan Korczak D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 17:46 14-15 0.30-0.56
15 Colton Sissons C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 13:34 0.07 9-13 0.16-0.77
15 Noah Hanifin D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 22:08 15-12 1.13-0.57
17 Ben Hutton D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 14:46 16-12 1.46-0.45
19 Reilly Smith R 0 0 0 -3 0 0 0 15:03 5-12 0.00-0.47
20 Brandon Saad L 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 15:03 0.18 9-10 0.34-0.42
21 Brett Howden C 0 0 0 -4 0 0 4 17:07 10-15 0.20-0.56
26 Alexander Holtz R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 13:21 0.13 9-16 0.27-0.51
28 Zach Whitecloud D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 21:11 14-20 0.31-0.80
42 Braeden Bowman R 0 0 0 -4 0 1 0 11:50 0.00 8-11 0.02-0.47
48 Tomas Hertl C 0 0 0 0 15 0 0 00:55 1-0 0.00-0.00
55 Keegan Kolesar R 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 13:58 9-12 0.27-0.65
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Akira Schmid 15 15 0 33:04 1.31 +1.31
79 Carter Hart L 12 7 5 26:51 1.32 -3.68