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Vegas Golden Knights at Carolina Hurricanes

Stanley Cup Final, Game 2 · Jun 4, 2026 · Lenovo Center

Team Goals Shots
Vegas Golden Knights 3 26
Carolina Hurricanes 4 26

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
13:33 VGK Brett Howden (12) Mitch Marner (16) 1 - 0
2nd Period
07:23 VGK Brett Howden (13) Ivan Barbashev (8), Noah Hanifin (7) 2 - 0
3rd Period
10:20 CAR Logan Stankoven (10) Unassisted 2 - 1
12:46 CAR Mark Jankowski (1) William Carrier (4), Eric Robinson (4) 2 - 2
15:25 CAR Jordan Staal (4) PP Shayne Gostisbehere (5), Andrei Svechnikov (5) 2 - 3
18:39 VGK Mark Stone (6) Mitch Marner (17), Tomas Hertl (7) 3 - 3
Overtime
03:56 CAR Seth Jarvis (4) PP Shayne Gostisbehere (6), Sebastian Aho (4) 3 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
02:29 VGK Dylan Coghlan Tripping 2
14:44 VGK Colton Sissons Roughing 2
17:42 CAR Jordan Staal Holding 2
2nd Period
05:16 CAR K'Andre Miller Interference 2
13:55 CAR Jordan Martinook Slashing 2
3rd Period
15:00 VGK Team Delaying game unsuccessful challenge 2
16:31 CAR Jackson Blake Interference 2
Overtime
03:17 VGK Tomas Hertl Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Vegas Golden Knights 45 32 26 3 3.1 35.4
Carolina Hurricanes 77 51 26 4 3.2 64.6

How the game went

051015202530Start2nd3rdOTCarolina Hurricanes 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 Carolina Hurricanes had taken more, and below it and blue while Vegas Golden Knights had.

Expected goals

Vegas Golden Knights: 3.1 expected, 3 scored · Carolina Hurricanes: 3.2 expected, 4 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTVGK goal, 13:33 of 1st, a 18% chanceVGK goal, 7:23 of 2nd, a 27% chanceVGK goal, 18:39 of 3rd, a 52% chanceCAR goal, 10:20 of 3rd, a 10% chanceCAR goal, 12:46 of 3rd, a 11% chanceCAR goal, 15:25 of 3rd, a 10% chanceCAR goal, 3:56 of overtime, a 9% chanceCAR 3.2VGK 3.1

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
Carolina Hurricanes

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
Ivan Barbashev · Jack Eichel · Pavel Dorofeyev10:3635.743.80-1
William Karlsson · Mitch Marner · Brett Howden10:3333.356.61-1
Mark Stone · Tomas Hertl · Colton Sissons9:1712.510.90-0
Nic Dowd · Keegan Kolesar · Cole Smith7:4946.274.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Noah Hanifin · Rasmus Andersson10:2631.851.61-0
Shea Theodore · Jeremy Lauzon8:2846.258.30-0
Noah Hanifin · Dylan Coghlan7:2611.84.30-0

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
21 Brett Howden C 2 0 2 1 0 3 1 15:35 0.61 9-18 0.85-0.48
93 Mitch Marner R 0 2 2 1 0 3 1 22:37 0.07 11-18 0.63-0.50
61 Mark Stone R 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 19:57 0.81 6-18 0.11-0.50
15 Noah Hanifin D 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 24:15 10-33 0.55-0.82
48 Tomas Hertl C 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 16:19 3-14 0.07-0.46
49 Ivan Barbashev L 0 1 1 0 0 5 2 16:55 0.43 14-23 0.81-1.02
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 05:39 2-4 0.07-0.12
4 Rasmus Andersson D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 21:00 0.07 14-28 1.39-1.15
5 Jeremy Lauzon D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 21:08 0.01 13-21 1.24-0.83
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 22:22 0.02 13-22 0.53-0.70
15 Colton Sissons C 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 14:22 4-19 0.16-0.57
16 Pavel Dorofeyev R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 19:55 0.05 13-18 0.54-0.61
22 Cole Smith R 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 09:35 0.37 7-7 0.72-0.22
26 Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 12:06 0.23 6-9 0.62-0.49
27 Shea Theodore D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 28:30 0.04 19-20 0.82-0.81
52 Dylan Coghlan D 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 16:31 0.01 12-22 0.38-0.63
55 Keegan Kolesar R 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 09:07 0.10 7-9 0.72-0.49
71 William Karlsson C 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 19:07 0.21 12-17 0.90-0.49
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
79 Carter Hart L 26 22 4 63:32 2.90 -1.10

Carolina Hurricanes

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Taylor Hall · Logan Stankoven · Jackson Blake12:1757.970.71-1
Jordan Martinook · Sebastian Aho · Andrei Svechnikov7:5068.430.20-0
Jordan Staal · Nikolaj Ehlers · Seth Jarvis7:1957.127.30-0
Mark Jankowski · William Carrier · Eric Robinson6:2350.062.21-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jaccob Slavin · Jalen Chatfield17:3047.746.52-0
Sean Walker · K'Andre Miller15:3086.761.10-1
Shayne Gostisbehere · Alexander Nikishin12:0668.861.30-0

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
4 Shayne Gostisbehere D 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 15:55 0.06 13-6 0.29-0.18
11 Jordan Staal C 1 0 1 -1 2 2 7 16:54 0.14 21-13 0.88-0.72
22 Logan Stankoven C 1 0 1 -1 0 2 3 17:04 0.28 14-10 0.52-0.59
24 Seth Jarvis R 1 0 1 0 0 2 3 20:04 0.18 23-13 0.51-0.83
77 Mark Jankowski L 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 09:47 0.11 3-3 0.19-0.12
20 Sebastian Aho C 0 1 1 0 0 4 4 21:37 0.41 26-9 0.58-0.80
28 William Carrier L 0 1 1 1 0 0 7 08:49 6-4 0.26-0.13
37 Andrei Svechnikov R 0 1 1 0 0 0 7 15:28 0.44 21-9 0.53-0.80
50 Eric Robinson L 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 10:23 0.08 7-3 0.28-0.12
5 Jalen Chatfield D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 24:25 0.13 23-23 1.23-1.36
19 K'Andre Miller D 0 0 0 -2 2 0 1 21:51 0.01 31-5 0.70-0.68
21 Alexander Nikishin D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 16:18 0.01 13-6 0.30-0.46
26 Sean Walker D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 5 20:32 0.01 26-5 0.64-0.41
27 Nikolaj Ehlers L 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 17:52 0.23 25-14 0.90-0.82
48 Jordan Martinook L 0 0 0 -1 2 3 2 16:25 0.67 22-10 0.89-0.80
53 Jackson Blake R 0 0 0 -2 2 0 0 16:58 12-9 0.50-0.48
71 Taylor Hall L 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 17:09 0.40 13-8 0.50-0.21
74 Jaccob Slavin D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24:09 21-25 1.18-1.64
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Frederik Andersen W 26 23 3 63:56 2.81 -0.19