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Vegas Golden Knights at St. Louis Blues

Jan 2, 2026 · Enterprise Center

Team Goals Shots
Vegas Golden Knights 3 25
St. Louis Blues 4 19

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
10:12 VGK Keegan Kolesar (1) Colton Sissons (3), Kaedan Korczak (7) 1 - 0
10:39 STL Alexey Toropchenko (2) Mathieu Joseph (7), Oskar Sundqvist (10) 1 - 1
2nd Period
05:39 STL Justin Faulk (11) Pavel Buchnevich (15), Tyler Tucker (6) 1 - 2
06:37 STL Oskar Sundqvist (2) Alexey Toropchenko (2), Mathieu Joseph (8) 1 - 3
09:10 VGK Mark Stone (11) Brett Howden (5) 2 - 3
3rd Period
08:21 VGK Pavel Dorofeyev (16) Braeden Bowman (9) 3 - 3
18:27 STL Brayden Schenn (9) Jimmy Snuggerud (7), Pavel Buchnevich (16) 3 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
01:35 STL Jordan Kyrou Holding 2
03:44 VGK Noah Hanifin Ps slash on breakaway 0
07:09 STL Justin Faulk Delaying game puck over glass 2
15:11 VGK Ben Hutton Tripping 2
19:38 VGK Mitch Marner Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Vegas Golden Knights 45 36 25 3 2.1 46.2
St. Louis Blues 49 33 19 4 2.7 53.8

How the game went

8642024Start2nd3rdSt. Louis Blues 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 St. Louis Blues had taken more, and below it and blue while Vegas Golden Knights had.

Expected goals

Vegas Golden Knights: 2.1 expected, 3 scored · St. Louis Blues: 2.7 expected, 4 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndVGK goal, 10:12 of 1st, a 10% chanceVGK goal, 9:10 of 2nd, a 25% chanceVGK goal, 8:21 of 3rd, a 17% chanceSTL goal, 10:39 of 1st, a 19% chanceSTL goal, 5:39 of 2nd, a 7% chanceSTL goal, 6:37 of 2nd, a 28% chanceSTL goal, 18:27 of 3rd, a 20% chanceSTL 2.7VGK 2.1

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
St. Louis Blues

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
Brandon Saad · Colton Sissons · Keegan Kolesar9:4958.381.71-0
Ivan Barbashev · Jack Eichel · Braeden Bowman6:3750.047.40-0
Mark Stone · Mitch Marner · Brett Howden6:1664.389.91-0
Reilly Smith · Tomas Hertl · Pavel Dorofeyev5:0058.339.00-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeremy Lauzon · Kaedan Korczak14:5250.051.81-0
Noah Hanifin · Zach Whitecloud13:5550.061.71-2
Ben Hutton · Noah Hanifin6:1730.830.20-0

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
16 Pavel Dorofeyev R 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 17:12 0.25 14-9 0.79-0.66
55 Keegan Kolesar R 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 12:00 0.10 7-5 0.15-0.03
61 Mark Stone R 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 17:55 0.32 9-11 0.44-0.14
6 Kaedan Korczak D 0 1 1 1 0 3 2 20:33 0.02 12-15 0.45-0.48
15 Colton Sissons C 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 13:39 7-9 0.15-0.12
21 Brett Howden C 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 14:01 0.10 11-12 0.50-0.21
42 Braeden Bowman R 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 14:27 0.21 12-7 0.65-0.45
5 Jeremy Lauzon D 0 0 0 2 0 1 5 19:37 0.06 12-11 0.57-0.36
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 2 19:34 0.15 5-18 0.10-1.05
15 Noah Hanifin D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 26:17 0.05 17-23 0.84-0.74
17 Ben Hutton D 0 0 0 -2 2 1 0 11:56 0.05 8-15 0.17-0.87
19 Reilly Smith R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 12:23 0.16 7-11 0.28-0.67
20 Brandon Saad L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:23 0.01 7-6 0.15-0.31
28 Zach Whitecloud D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 22:29 0.06 15-14 0.90-0.42
48 Tomas Hertl C 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 17:06 0.40 13-6 0.78-0.44
49 Ivan Barbashev L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 15:08 0.02 5-16 0.10-0.64
88 Jaycob Megna D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 10:43 8-6 0.13-0.62
93 Mitch Marner R 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 19:01 0.12 11-16 0.50-0.51
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
79 Carter Hart L 19 15 4 58:36 2.19 -1.81

St. Louis Blues

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jordan Kyrou · Robert Thomas · Jake Neighbours9:5692.9100.00-0
Jonatan Berggren · Dalibor Dvorsky · Otto Stenberg9:3635.39.80-0
Brayden Schenn · Pavel Buchnevich · Jimmy Snuggerud8:1962.564.02-1
Oskar Sundqvist · Mathieu Joseph · Alexey Toropchenko7:2150.081.51-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Colton Parayko · Philip Broberg16:5867.979.62-0
Justin Faulk · Tyler Tucker12:1445.019.21-2
Cam Fowler · Matthew Kessel8:4157.148.01-0

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
13 Alexey Toropchenko R 1 1 2 2 0 2 1 13:28 0.26 4-9 0.53-0.35
70 Oskar Sundqvist C 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 11:24 0.28 5-5 0.58-0.07
21 Mathieu Joseph R 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 11:31 5-6 0.38-0.23
89 Pavel Buchnevich L 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 15:04 0.21 11-8 0.65-0.51
10 Brayden Schenn C 1 0 1 -1 0 1 1 16:44 0.20 15-13 0.69-0.67
72 Justin Faulk D 1 0 1 -2 2 1 1 21:00 0.11 11-17 0.15-0.84
21 Jimmy Snuggerud R 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 15:13 0.26 12-11 0.57-0.52
75 Tyler Tucker D 0 1 1 -1 0 2 2 17:07 0.01 9-14 0.15-0.71
6 Philip Broberg D 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 25:23 0.15 23-11 1.32-0.32
15 Dalibor Dvorsky R 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 14:02 0.16 8-16 0.04-0.68
17 Cam Fowler D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 17:17 0.01 14-9 0.58-0.41
18 Robert Thomas C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20:05 16-4 0.48-0.12
25 Jordan Kyrou R 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 15:11 0.27 16-3 0.66-0.08
28 Otto Stenberg C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 14:16 0.12 9-16 0.21-0.70
29 Jonatan Berggren R 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 14:38 0.01 8-11 0.14-0.41
51 Matthew Kessel D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:37 0.01 8-11 0.28-0.49
55 Colton Parayko D 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 22:37 0.01 19-10 1.02-0.29
63 Jake Neighbours L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 17:23 0.21 17-6 0.31-0.25
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Joel Hofer W 25 22 3 60:00 2.00 -1.00