Vegas Golden KnightsVGK 3–4 Final/OT Anaheim DucksANA

Saturday, November 22, 2025

Final/OT 1st2nd3rdOT T SOG
Vegas Golden KnightsVGK 3000 3 32
Anaheim DucksANA 2101 4 33

No impact calculated for this game. Impacts are calculated for games in the next 7 days.

Highlights

Scoring

1st Period
3:25 VGK Shea Theodore (3) Jack Eichel (18) · snap xG 0.03 1–0 ▶
4:37 VGK Braeden Bowman (4) Ivan Barbashev (11), Zach Whitecloud (3) · wrist xG 0.21 2–0 ▶
7:43 ANA Jackson LaCombe (2) Beckett Sennecke (9), Cutter Gauthier (13) · slap xG 0.04 2–1 ▶
8:17 ANA Olen Zellweger (3) Troy Terry (18), Jacob Trouba (9) · snap xG 0.08 2–2 ▶
17:59 VGK Tomas Hertl (9)PP Jack Eichel (19) · deflected xG 0.13 3–2 ▶
2nd Period
13:50 ANA Troy Terry (7) Leo Carlsson (18), Jackson LaCombe (8) · snap xG 0.17 3–3 ▶
3rd Period
No scoring
Overtime
3:57 ANA Cutter Gauthier (13) Unassisted · wrist xG 0.08 3–4 ▶

Score away–home after each goal; season totals in parentheses.

Shot quality

Expected goals (xG) rate every unblocked shot by how often shots like it go in, from where it was taken, the shot type, the strength and what happened just before it. How it works

VGK 47%Deserve to win53% ANA
VGKANA
3.16Expected goals3.38
3Goals (no shootout)4
2.17Expected goals, 5 on 52.13
56Shot attempts77
41Unblocked attempts55
32Shots on goal33

Shot map

VGK shoots ←Bigger circle: higher xG; filled: goal→ ANA shoots
Noah Hanifin: snap, 64 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 0:40) Brandon Saad: wrist, 55 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 0:44) Cutter Gauthier: slap, 37 ft, xG 0.05 (P1 1:31) Troy Terry: tip-in, 11 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 4:06) Shea Theodore: snap, 49 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 4:23) Cutter Gauthier: snap, 43 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 5:21) Mason McTavish: snap, 41 ft, xG 0.05 (P1 5:56) Keegan Kolesar: wrist, 17 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 8:06) Mitch Marner: between-legs, 9 ft, xG 0.14 (P1 9:17) Ivan Barbashev: wrist, 13 ft, xG 0.09 (P1 10:07) Mitch Marner: wrist, 54 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 12:11) Pavel Dorofeyev: snap, 27 ft, xG 0.12 (P1 12:53) Jack Eichel: snap, 19 ft, xG 0.10 (P1 15:18) Radko Gudas: snap, 57 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 16:17) Brandon Saad: snap, 34 ft, xG 0.09 (P1 16:31) Shea Theodore: wrist, 111 ft, xG 0.00 (P1 16:38) Tomas Hertl: snap, 25 ft, xG 0.17 (P1 17:28) Jack Eichel: slap, 36 ft, xG 0.09 (P1 17:45) Pavel Mintyukov: wrist, 46 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 18:28) Radko Gudas: slap, 53 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 19:55) Chris Kreider: tip-in, 8 ft, xG 0.10 (P2 0:49) Jacob Trouba: snap, 72 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 0:55) Jacob Trouba: snap, 51 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 1:13) Chris Kreider: wrist, 16 ft, xG 0.16 (P2 1:31) Mitch Marner: tip-in, 8 ft, xG 0.08 (P2 1:47) Jackson LaCombe: snap, 43 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 2:25) Chris Kreider: snap, 20 ft, xG 0.18 (P2 3:10) Olen Zellweger: snap, 39 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 3:52) Jackson LaCombe: slap, 50 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 3:57) Frank Vatrano: deflected, 6 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 3:58) Cutter Gauthier: snap, 48 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 4:20) Brandon Saad: wrist, 26 ft, xG 0.12 (P2 4:39) Pavel Mintyukov: snap, 54 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 5:12) Noah Hanifin: wrist, 58 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 5:34) Pavel Dorofeyev: tip-in, 30 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 5:39) Colton Sissons: tip-in, 15 ft, xG 0.08 (P2 7:13) Beckett Sennecke: snap, 21 ft, xG 0.19 (P2 7:23) Brett Howden: wrist, 16 ft, xG 0.15 (P2 7:44) Chris Kreider: snap, 28 ft, xG 0.17 (P2 8:04) Leo Carlsson: tip-in, 11 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 9:04) Jackson LaCombe: snap, 42 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 9:20) Jack Eichel: snap, 24 ft, xG 0.16 (P2 11:42) Reilly Smith: wrist, 6 ft, xG 0.17 (P2 12:37) Brayden McNabb: wrist, 19 ft, xG 0.22 (P2 13:23) Brett Howden: snap, 41 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 16:17) Cutter Gauthier: snap, 34 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 16:46) Cutter Gauthier: snap, 49 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 16:59) Ryan Strome: snap, 35 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 19:32) Cutter Gauthier: snap, 34 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 19:54) Pavel Mintyukov: wrist, 43 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 0:15) Radko Gudas: slap, 57 ft, xG 0.00 (P3 0:17) Beckett Sennecke: snap, 37 ft, xG 0.08 (P3 0:45) Leo Carlsson: snap, 37 ft, xG 0.08 (P3 0:50) Cutter Gauthier: snap, 38 ft, xG 0.06 (P3 2:19) Cutter Gauthier: snap, 45 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 2:30) Keegan Kolesar: wrist, 45 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 2:58) Brandon Saad: snap, 43 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 3:03) Shea Theodore: snap, 56 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 3:35) Mitch Marner: snap, 25 ft, xG 0.11 (P3 5:35) Ben Hutton: snap, 36 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 5:38) Olen Zellweger: wrist, 49 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 5:57) Mason McTavish: snap, 31 ft, xG 0.05 (P3 6:09) Cole Reinhardt: tip-in, 6 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 6:51) Radko Gudas: slap, 69 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 7:26) Jansen Harkins: snap, 28 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 7:39) Tomas Hertl: tip-in, 16 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 8:11) Pavel Dorofeyev: snap, 13 ft, xG 0.19 (P3 8:34) Cutter Gauthier: wrist, 36 ft, xG 0.06 (P3 8:49) Radko Gudas: snap, 77 ft, xG 0.00 (P3 8:55) Alex Killorn: tip-in, 6 ft, xG 0.09 (P3 9:55) Braeden Bowman: wrist, 43 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 10:30) Jackson LaCombe: tip-in, 34 ft, xG 0.05 (P3 11:03) Tomas Hertl: wrist, 63 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 11:35) Zach Whitecloud: slap, 60 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 11:41) Troy Terry: tip-in, 6 ft, xG 0.09 (P3 11:57) Jack Eichel: snap, 33 ft, xG 0.05 (P3 14:37) Reilly Smith: snap, 34 ft, xG 0.10 (P3 17:21) Troy Terry: snap, 30 ft, xG 0.13 (P3 17:30) Cutter Gauthier: snap, 42 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 17:56) Leo Carlsson: tip-in, 26 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 18:13) Mason McTavish: snap, 28 ft, xG 0.09 (P3 18:59) Ivan Barbashev: snap, 85 ft, xG 0.00 (P3 19:05) Ryan Strome: tip-in, 4 ft, xG 0.10 (P3 19:31) Jackson LaCombe: slap, 44 ft, xG 0.07 (OT 0:50) Cutter Gauthier: snap, 36 ft, xG 0.12 (OT 1:05) Troy Terry: snap, 35 ft, xG 0.12 (OT 2:24) Brett Howden: snap, 28 ft, xG 0.17 (OT 3:04) Troy Terry: wrist, 13 ft, xG 0.15 (OT 3:12) Jacob Trouba: wrist, 29 ft, xG 0.13 (OT 3:24) Shea Theodore: GOAL, snap, 59 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 3:25) Braeden Bowman: GOAL, wrist, 6 ft, xG 0.21 (P1 4:37) Jackson LaCombe: GOAL, slap, 48 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 7:43) Olen Zellweger: GOAL, snap, 34 ft, xG 0.08 (P1 8:17) Tomas Hertl: GOAL, deflected, 16 ft, xG 0.13 (P1 17:59) Troy Terry: GOAL, snap, 29 ft, xG 0.17 (P2 13:50) Cutter Gauthier: GOAL, wrist, 20 ft, xG 0.08 (OT 3:57)
About these numbers

xG comes from hockeystats.io's own model, a gradient-boosted tree model trained on every unblocked shot from the 2021-22 to 2025-26 regular seasons using the NHL's public play-by-play. Each shot's value is the share of similar shots that became goals. A team's xG is the sum over its shots; "deserve to win" asks how often the team would outscore its opponent if every shot went in at exactly that rate. Blocked shots count as attempts but have no xG (the NHL records where they were blocked, not where they were taken), so the map leaves them out.

Box score

Vegas Golden Knights

Skater GAP+/− AttxG HitBlkTOI
Forwards
9 Jack Eichel 022 0 50.40 0121:45
93 Mitch Marner 000 -1 50.37 0121:31
16 Pavel Dorofeyev 000 0 50.32 1120:43
48 Tomas Hertl 101 0 40.36 1119:21
42 Braeden Bowman 101 +1 20.23 0116:03
20 Brandon Saad 000 -1 60.26 0015:57
21 Brett Howden 000 -1 30.34 3015:56
49 Ivan Barbashev 011 +1 30.09 2115:51
19 Reilly Smith 000 0 20.26 0112:47
15 Colton Sissons 000 -1 10.08 1011:24
55 Keegan Kolesar 000 -2 20.05 1010:16
29 Cole Reinhardt 000 -1 20.04 0007:23
Defense
27 Shea Theodore 101 0 50.08 0225:29
15 Noah Hanifin 000 -1 40.02 1522:59
3 Brayden McNabb 000 -1 20.22 2221:23
28 Zach Whitecloud 011 -1 30.02 1021:01
6 Kaedan Korczak 000 0 00.00 2314:04
17 Ben Hutton 000 0 20.02 0112:06
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Akira Schmid 33429 .879 3.38 -0.62

Anaheim Ducks

Skater GAP+/− AttxG HitBlkTOI
Forwards
91 Leo Carlsson 011 +2 50.15 0022:58
19 Troy Terry 112 +2 70.69 0021:52
61 Cutter Gauthier 112 +2 140.52 1019:52
45 Beckett Sennecke 011 +2 20.27 1019:31
83 Mason McTavish 000 +1 30.19 1017:13
22 Chris Kreider 000 +2 70.62 0015:59
17 Alex Killorn 000 -1 30.09 2115:15
77 Frank Vatrano 000 -1 10.05 1114:37
22 Ryan Strome 000 -1 30.12 2013:19
13 Nikita Nesterenko 000 -1 00.00 2007:49
49 Ross Johnston 000 -1 00.00 2106:53
10 Jansen Harkins 000 -1 20.03 3006:11
Defense
2 Jackson LaCombe 112 +2 70.22 1427:07
65 Jacob Trouba 011 0 60.16 1125:19
98 Pavel Mintyukov 000 0 40.04 1221:15
6 Radko Gudas 000 0 50.07 1320:19
8 Olen Zellweger 101 0 60.16 0114:23
14 Drew Helleson 000 +1 20.00 0013:34
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Lukas Dostal 32329 .906 3.16 +0.16

Skaters by time on ice. Goalie lines count shots with the goalie in net, from the NHL play-by-play.

Player ratings

What each player added to the result, in goals, from most to least. Hover a number for what it's made of.

Vegas Golden Knights

Player Rating Points Shots On ice Pen FO Other GSAx TOI
48 Tomas Hertl C +1.49 +0.75 +0.23 +0.33 0.00 +0.11 +0.07 — 19:21
9 Jack Eichel C +1.27 +1.40 +0.26 -0.23 -0.15 -0.02 +0.01 — 21:45
42 Braeden Bowman R +1.17 +0.75 +0.15 +0.23 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 16:03
2 Zach Whitecloud D +1.16 +0.55 +0.02 +0.62 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 21:01
15 Noah Hanifin D +1.01 0.00 +0.02 +0.76 0.00 0.00 +0.23 — 22:59
16 Pavel Dorofeyev R +0.79 0.00 +0.21 +0.25 +0.30 0.00 +0.03 — 20:43
93 Mitch Marner R +0.78 0.00 +0.24 +0.51 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 21:31
49 Ivan Barbashev L +0.77 +0.70 +0.06 -0.05 0.00 +0.01 +0.05 — 15:51
21 Brett Howden C +0.54 0.00 +0.22 +0.26 0.00 +0.08 -0.02 — 15:56
27 Shea Theodore D +0.33 +0.75 +0.05 -0.53 0.00 0.00 +0.06 — 25:29
20 Brandon Saad L +0.20 0.00 +0.17 +0.07 0.00 -0.02 -0.02 — 15:57
6 Kaedan Korczak D -0.06 0.00 0.00 -0.13 0.00 0.00 +0.07 — 14:04
17 Ben Hutton D -0.19 0.00 +0.01 -0.25 0.00 0.00 +0.05 — 12:06
19 Reilly Smith R -0.20 0.00 +0.17 -0.42 0.00 0.00 +0.05 — 12:47
10 Colton Sissons C -0.32 0.00 +0.05 -0.34 0.00 +0.02 -0.06 — 11:24
23 Cole Reinhardt L -0.43 0.00 +0.02 -0.46 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 7:23
55 Keegan Kolesar R -0.44 0.00 +0.04 -0.49 0.00 +0.01 0.00 — 10:16
3 Brayden McNabb D -0.50 0.00 +0.14 -0.72 0.00 0.00 +0.08 — 21:23
40 Akira Schmid G -0.62 0.00 — — 0.00 — — -0.62 63:49

Anaheim Ducks

Player Rating Points Shots On ice Pen FO Other GSAx TOI
19 Troy Terry R +2.69 +1.45 +0.45 +0.81 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 21:52
20 Chris Kreider L +1.31 0.00 +0.40 +0.78 +0.15 -0.02 0.00 — 15:59
61 Cutter Gauthier L +1.23 +1.30 +0.34 -0.16 -0.15 0.00 -0.10 — 19:52
7 Radko Gudas D +1.19 0.00 +0.04 +0.99 0.00 0.00 +0.15 — 20:19
91 Leo Carlsson C +1.01 +0.70 +0.10 +0.27 0.00 -0.06 0.00 — 22:58
98 Pavel Mintyukov D +1.00 0.00 +0.03 +0.85 0.00 0.00 +0.12 — 21:15
2 Jackson LaCombe D +0.94 +1.30 +0.14 -0.85 +0.15 0.00 +0.20 — 27:07
51 Olen Zellweger D +0.86 +0.75 +0.11 +0.12 -0.15 0.00 +0.03 — 14:23
45 Beckett Sennecke R +0.79 +0.70 +0.17 -0.07 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 19:31
23 Mason McTavish C +0.37 0.00 +0.12 +0.35 0.00 -0.04 -0.06 — 17:13
65 Jacob Trouba D +0.18 +0.55 +0.10 -0.55 0.00 0.00 +0.07 — 25:19
1 Lukas Dostal G +0.16 0.00 — — 0.00 — — +0.16 63:57
17 Alex Killorn L -0.06 0.00 +0.06 -0.15 0.00 -0.01 +0.05 — 15:15
16 Ryan Strome C -0.15 0.00 +0.08 -0.15 0.00 -0.05 -0.02 — 13:19
77 Frank Vatrano R -0.20 0.00 +0.03 -0.30 0.00 0.00 +0.07 — 14:37
44 Ross Johnston L -0.29 0.00 0.00 -0.34 0.00 0.00 +0.05 — 6:53
13 Nikita Nesterenko C -0.34 0.00 0.00 -0.34 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 7:49
24 Jansen Harkins C -0.48 0.00 +0.02 -0.34 -0.15 -0.01 0.00 — 6:11
14 Drew Helleson D -0.50 0.00 0.00 -0.37 -0.15 0.00 +0.02 — 13:34

An expected-goals take on Dom Luszczyszyn's Game Score: goals and assists, the quality of a player's own shots, shot quality for and against while they were on the ice at 5v5, penalties, faceoffs and puck plays, all in goals; goalies by goals saved above expected. From the NHL play-by-play and shift charts.