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Carolina Hurricanes at Vegas Golden Knights

Stanley Cup Final, Game 4 · Jun 9, 2026 · T-Mobile Arena

Team Goals Shots
Carolina Hurricanes 5 28
Vegas Golden Knights 3 21

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
01:06 CAR Logan Stankoven (11) Jalen Chatfield (7), Jackson Blake (12) 1 - 0
03:28 CAR Jackson Blake (6) Taylor Hall (12), Nikolaj Ehlers (6) 2 - 0
07:22 VGK Mark Stone (7) Shea Theodore (11), Brayden McNabb (9) 2 - 1
12:48 CAR Jordan Staal (6) PP Shayne Gostisbehere (7), Sebastian Aho (7) 3 - 1
2nd Period
04:22 VGK William Karlsson (3) Rasmus Andersson (6), Mitch Marner (19) 3 - 2
17:08 VGK Brett Howden (14) Colton Sissons (6), William Karlsson (6) 3 - 3
3rd Period
06:32 CAR Jordan Staal (7) Nikolaj Ehlers (7) 4 - 3
19:05 CAR Nikolaj Ehlers (7) Unassisted 5 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
01:24 VGK Shea Theodore Tripping 2
12:27 VGK Team Too many men on the ice 2
17:32 CAR Taylor Hall Slashing 2
2nd Period
11:30 VGK Nic Dowd Cross checking 2
14:20 CAR Jordan Martinook Interference 2
18:30 VGK Brayden McNabb Cross checking 2
18:30 CAR Jackson Blake Interference goalkeeper 2
3rd Period
01:42 CAR K'Andre Miller Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Carolina Hurricanes 52 40 28 5 3.2 53.8
Vegas Golden Knights 52 36 21 3 2.8 46.2

How the game went

151050Start2nd3rdVegas Golden Knights aheadCarolina Hurricanes 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 Carolina Hurricanes had.

Expected goals

Carolina Hurricanes: 3.2 expected, 5 scored · Vegas Golden Knights: 2.8 expected, 3 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndCAR goal, 1:06 of 1st, a 13% chanceCAR goal, 3:28 of 1st, a 9% chanceCAR goal, 12:48 of 1st, a 35% chanceCAR goal, 6:32 of 3rd, a 9% chanceCAR goal, 19:05 of 3rd, a 43% chanceVGK goal, 7:22 of 1st, a 24% chanceVGK goal, 4:22 of 2nd, a 10% chanceVGK goal, 17:08 of 2nd, a 3% chanceCAR 3.2VGK 2.8

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

Carolina Hurricanes
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.

Carolina Hurricanes

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Taylor Hall · Logan Stankoven · Jackson Blake11:1056.364.31-0
Jordan Staal · Nikolaj Ehlers · Seth Jarvis8:2270.675.71-0
Jordan Martinook · Sebastian Aho · Andrei Svechnikov6:2558.335.10-0
Mark Jankowski · William Carrier · Eric Robinson5:4540.07.60-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Sean Walker · K'Andre Miller15:4641.757.50-2
Jaccob Slavin · Jalen Chatfield15:3974.174.92-1
Shayne Gostisbehere · Alexander Nikishin5:2141.737.80-0

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
27 Nikolaj Ehlers L 1 2 3 2 0 3 1 19:09 0.08 15-12 0.60-0.66
11 Jordan Staal C 2 0 2 2 0 4 2 16:34 0.59 14-7 0.46-0.21
53 Jackson Blake R 1 1 2 1 2 3 2 15:14 0.52 10-11 0.86-0.60
22 Logan Stankoven C 1 0 1 0 0 3 3 16:54 0.30 15-11 1.20-0.58
4 Shayne Gostisbehere D 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 13:02 0.09 9-10 0.61-0.82
5 Jalen Chatfield D 0 1 1 2 0 1 4 22:51 0.01 22-10 0.99-0.45
20 Sebastian Aho C 0 1 1 -1 0 3 1 18:14 0.22 9-13 0.13-0.65
71 Taylor Hall L 0 1 1 1 2 3 0 16:33 0.52 15-11 1.35-0.53
19 K'Andre Miller D 0 0 0 -2 2 1 2 22:45 0.03 14-17 0.43-0.44
21 Alexander Nikishin D 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 10:13 6-12 0.45-0.78
24 Seth Jarvis R 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 18:30 0.16 13-9 0.45-0.42
26 Sean Walker D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 5 22:17 0.07 12-16 0.55-0.30
28 William Carrier L 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 08:23 0.01 5-4 0.05-0.13
37 Andrei Svechnikov R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 12:56 0.05 7-8 0.10-0.30
48 Jordan Martinook L 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 13:48 0.00 13-11 0.41-0.42
50 Eric Robinson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:18 6-6 0.26-0.13
74 Jaccob Slavin D 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 24:41 0.07 22-8 1.14-0.35
77 Mark Jankowski L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09:38 3-4 0.03-0.06
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
32 Brandon Bussi W 21 18 3 60:00 2.61 -0.39

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mark Stone · Ivan Barbashev · Jack Eichel8:5840.934.01-1
William Karlsson · Mitch Marner · Brett Howden8:4642.935.41-0
Nic Dowd · Keegan Kolesar · Cole Smith5:1850.067.90-0
Tomas Hertl · Colton Sissons · Pavel Dorofeyev5:1266.754.40-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brayden McNabb · Shea Theodore16:4141.423.81-1
Noah Hanifin · Rasmus Andersson12:2641.750.41-0
Jeremy Lauzon · Dylan Coghlan5:5362.583.10-0

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
71 William Karlsson C 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 16:53 0.18 8-12 0.24-0.66
21 Brett Howden C 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 15:40 0.10 9-12 0.28-0.72
61 Mark Stone R 1 0 1 -1 0 5 6 21:34 0.70 12-16 0.54-0.60
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 1 1 0 2 0 1 20:46 14-18 0.59-1.17
4 Rasmus Andersson D 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 21:35 0.30 15-19 0.77-0.80
15 Colton Sissons C 0 1 1 0 0 2 4 12:33 0.14 12-9 0.72-0.63
27 Shea Theodore D 0 1 1 -2 2 2 0 25:00 0.02 14-19 0.34-1.35
93 Mitch Marner R 0 1 1 -1 0 0 3 23:58 0.04 8-12 0.44-0.60
5 Jeremy Lauzon D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 7 12:11 10-8 0.79-0.33
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 20:44 0.42 12-16 0.54-0.58
15 Noah Hanifin D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 20:20 0.05 12-16 0.44-0.42
16 Pavel Dorofeyev R 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 16:09 0.61 11-8 0.69-0.62
22 Cole Smith R 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 09:50 3-5 0.06-0.07
26 Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 10:33 0.06 6-6 0.16-0.07
48 Tomas Hertl C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 1 13:55 0.08 11-5 0.69-0.57
49 Ivan Barbashev L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17:01 0.14 12-19 0.29-0.76
52 Dylan Coghlan D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:25 0.01 8-5 0.22-0.05
55 Keegan Kolesar R 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 06:17 3-5 0.06-0.08
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
79 Carter Hart L 27 23 4 58:15 2.50 -1.50