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Vegas Golden KnightsVGK 3–2 Final Columbus Blue JacketsCBJ

Saturday, December 13, 2025

Final 1st2nd3rd T SOG
Vegas Golden KnightsVGK 012 3 26
Columbus Blue JacketsCBJ 101 2 30

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

Highlights

Scoring

1st Period
7:02 CBJ Charlie Coyle (5) Zach Werenski (24), Cole Sillinger (11) · wrist xG 0.10 0–1 ▶
2nd Period
0:41 VGK Pavel Dorofeyev (13)PP Mitch Marner (24), Jack Eichel (29) · snap xG 0.12 1–1 ▶
3rd Period
4:49 CBJ Egor Chinakhov (3) Dante Fabbro (4), Kent Johnson (5) · wrist xG 0.09 1–2 ▶
5:52 VGK Ben Hutton (4) Mitch Marner (25), Kaedan Korczak (3) · snap xG 0.06 2–2 ▶
13:13 VGK Brayden McNabb (1) Mitch Marner (26), Shea Theodore (16) · snap xG 0.06 3–2 ▶

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% CBJ
VGKCBJ
1.88Expected goals2.02
3Goals (no shootout)2
1.14Expected goals, 5 on 51.66
61Shot attempts59
40Unblocked attempts37
26Shots on goal30

Game notes

What stood out as the game went on, from the play-by-play and the shifts. Time on the bench is counted in 5-on-5 play outside the penalty box; the note says the player sat, not why. Goals saved are against the shots' expected goals (xG).

3rd Period
8:40 VGK No shift No shift · Dorofeyev, 18:22 on the bench
No shift after 18:39 of the 2nd; 12 shifts (11:04) before that
18:52 CBJ Pulled goalie Pulled goalie · Pulled Greaves, down 3–2
With 1:08 left

Shot map

VGK shoots ←Bigger circle: higher xG; filled: goal→ CBJ shoots
Boone Jenner: wrist, 46 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 0:45) Denton Mateychuk: backhand, 21 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 0:50) Ben Hutton: wrist, 71 ft, xG 0.00 (P1 1:34) Keegan Kolesar: wrist, 102 ft, xG 0.00 (P1 2:41) Shea Theodore: slap, 55 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 3:17) Charlie Coyle: backhand, 12 ft, xG 0.08 (P1 3:28) Zach Werenski: wrist, 50 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 3:55) Cole Reinhardt: snap, 39 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 6:04) Mark Stone: tip-in, 7 ft, xG 0.10 (P1 6:15) Sean Monahan: snap, 54 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 6:26) Cole Reinhardt: snap, 39 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 7:56) Noah Hanifin: wrist, 62 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 9:50) Pavel Dorofeyev: slap, 34 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 10:34) Zach Werenski: snap, 56 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 11:13) Adam Fantilli: slap, 40 ft, xG 0.06 (P1 12:04) Adam Fantilli: wrist, 30 ft, xG 0.11 (P1 12:21) Cole Reinhardt: snap, 29 ft, xG 0.15 (P1 13:24) Pavel Dorofeyev: snap, 16 ft, xG 0.14 (P1 15:11) Pavel Dorofeyev: snap, 42 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 15:16) Pavel Dorofeyev: snap, 23 ft, xG 0.14 (P1 15:23) Noah Hanifin: slap, 35 ft, xG 0.10 (P1 16:23) Adam Fantilli: slap, 57 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 17:20) Colton Sissons: wrist, 41 ft, xG 0.00 (P1 19:51) Noah Hanifin: slap, 67 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 0:14) Ben Hutton: snap, 35 ft, xG 0.07 (P2 2:04) Mark Stone: wrist, 6 ft, xG 0.19 (P2 2:41) Brendan Smith: snap, 31 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 5:54) Kirill Marchenko: backhand, 7 ft, xG 0.16 (P2 5:56) Dante Fabbro: snap, 31 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 6:28) Cole Sillinger: wrap-around, 5 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 7:15) Boone Jenner: wrist, 37 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 8:05) Pavel Dorofeyev: wrist, 34 ft, xG 0.08 (P2 11:17) Kaedan Korczak: wrist, 36 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 11:21) Jack Eichel: snap, 33 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 11:40) Brayden McNabb: slap, 64 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 11:47) Cole Sillinger: wrist, 27 ft, xG 0.16 (P2 11:55) Charlie Coyle: wrist, 7 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 11:56) Boone Jenner: wrist, 7 ft, xG 0.13 (P2 13:20) Isac Lundeström: snap, 52 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 13:30) Sean Monahan: slap, 36 ft, xG 0.08 (P2 14:29) Pavel Dorofeyev: wrist, 50 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 15:12) Brayden McNabb: snap, 28 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 16:02) Shea Theodore: wrist, 69 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 16:34) Colton Sissons: snap, 41 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 17:13) Miles Wood: backhand, 20 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 19:15) Charlie Coyle: wrist, 40 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 19:24) Noah Hanifin: wrist, 69 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 19:46) Shea Theodore: slap, 43 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 19:58) Sean Monahan: wrist, 68 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 0:17) Ivan Provorov: wrist, 45 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 0:21) Ivan Provorov: wrist, 23 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 0:39) Mark Stone: wrist, 14 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 1:28) Brandon Saad: wrist, 58 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 2:13) Ben Hutton: wrist, 58 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 3:13) Egor Chinakhov: wrist, 24 ft, xG 0.09 (P3 4:38) Colton Sissons: wrist, 66 ft, xG 0.00 (P3 4:59) Mitch Marner: snap, 52 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 6:07) Zach Werenski: wrist, 45 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 7:19) Denton Mateychuk: wrist, 39 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 7:36) Noah Hanifin: wrist, 45 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 8:10) Isac Lundeström: backhand, 12 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 8:34) Boone Jenner: snap, 11 ft, xG 0.12 (P3 8:44) Zach Werenski: snap, 68 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 11:11) Mitch Marner: wrist, 43 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 11:55) Shea Theodore: wrist, 34 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 12:37) Tomas Hertl: wrist, 33 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 12:39) Zach Whitecloud: snap, 59 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 14:07) Ivan Provorov: slap, 53 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 15:43) Kirill Marchenko: wrist, 35 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 16:17) Kirill Marchenko: poke, 15 ft, xG 0.10 (P3 16:59) Kirill Marchenko: slap, 33 ft, xG 0.09 (P3 17:53) Egor Chinakhov: wrist, 36 ft, xG 0.06 (P3 18:07) Charlie Coyle: GOAL, wrist, 26 ft, xG 0.10 (P1 7:02) Pavel Dorofeyev: GOAL, snap, 25 ft, xG 0.12 (P2 0:41) Egor Chinakhov: GOAL, wrist, 30 ft, xG 0.09 (P3 4:49) Ben Hutton: GOAL, snap, 39 ft, xG 0.06 (P3 5:52) Brayden McNabb: GOAL, snap, 19 ft, xG 0.06 (P3 13:13)
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 011 -2 20.06 2220:48
61 Mark Stone 000 0 30.32 1018:14
93 Mitch Marner 033 +2 30.05 1116:46
49 Ivan Barbashev 000 -2 00.00 0215:26
48 Tomas Hertl 000 +1 50.01 0015:24
15 Colton Sissons 000 0 30.06 5414:36
42 Braeden Bowman 000 0 20.00 0014:13
20 Brandon Saad 000 0 30.03 0113:39
29 Cole Reinhardt 000 +1 60.19 0013:18
21 Brett Howden 000 +1 00.00 0013:10
55 Keegan Kolesar 000 -1 10.00 3012:09
16 Pavel Dorofeyev 101 0 80.58 0011:04
Defense
27 Shea Theodore 011 0 80.11 0122:43
15 Noah Hanifin 000 -1 50.14 0022:13
3 Brayden McNabb 101 -1 30.11 1220:24
28 Zach Whitecloud 000 0 20.01 1417:45
6 Kaedan Korczak 011 +1 30.05 1317:30
17 Ben Hutton 101 +1 40.15 0013:39
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Carter Hart 30228 .933 2.02 +0.02

Columbus Blue Jackets

Skater GAP+/− AttxG HitBlkTOI
Forwards
86 Kirill Marchenko 000 0 60.37 1018:46
19 Adam Fantilli 000 -2 50.18 1318:42
23 Sean Monahan 000 0 40.10 0217:58
3 Charlie Coyle 101 0 40.25 0117:50
10 Dmitri Voronkov 000 0 20.00 3117:26
22 Boone Jenner 000 -2 50.33 2216:32
21 Isac Lundeström 000 0 20.07 0014:59
4 Cole Sillinger 011 0 20.19 0114:35
18 Miles Wood 000 +1 40.02 2014:04
50 Brendan Gaunce 000 +1 00.00 3010:44
91 Kent Johnson 011 +1 20.00 0009:55
59 Egor Chinakhov 101 +1 30.24 1009:53
Defense
8 Zach Werenski 011 +1 50.07 0225:53
9 Ivan Provorov 000 0 60.06 0123:24
78 Damon Severson 000 0 10.00 0120:38
5 Denton Mateychuk 000 0 50.05 0320:18
15 Dante Fabbro 011 0 10.04 0213:54
7 Brendan Smith 000 -1 20.05 2011:12
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Jet Greaves 26323 .885 1.88 -1.12

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
93 Mitch Marner R +2.82 +2.10 +0.03 +0.36 +0.30 0.00 +0.03 — 16:46
17 Ben Hutton D +1.49 +0.75 +0.10 +0.64 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 13:39
16 Pavel Dorofeyev R +1.45 +0.75 +0.38 +0.17 +0.15 0.00 0.00 — 11:04
6 Kaedan Korczak D +1.27 +0.55 +0.03 +0.58 0.00 0.00 +0.11 — 17:30
61 Mark Stone R +0.42 0.00 +0.21 +0.21 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 18:14
10 Colton Sissons C +0.28 0.00 +0.04 +0.06 0.00 -0.04 +0.22 — 14:36
23 Cole Reinhardt L +0.25 0.00 +0.12 +0.11 0.00 0.00 +0.02 — 13:18
27 Shea Theodore D +0.12 +0.55 +0.07 -0.53 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 22:43
48 Tomas Hertl C +0.04 0.00 +0.01 0.00 0.00 +0.05 -0.02 — 15:24
79 Carter Hart G +0.02 0.00 — — 0.00 — — +0.02 60:00
9 Jack Eichel C -0.03 +0.55 +0.04 -0.70 0.00 -0.04 +0.12 — 20:48
2 Zach Whitecloud D -0.06 0.00 +0.01 -0.26 0.00 0.00 +0.20 — 17:45
20 Brandon Saad L -0.16 0.00 +0.02 -0.06 -0.15 0.00 +0.03 — 13:39
21 Brett Howden C -0.23 0.00 0.00 -0.02 -0.15 -0.06 0.00 — 13:10
15 Noah Hanifin D -0.29 0.00 +0.09 -0.36 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 22:13
55 Keegan Kolesar R -0.45 0.00 0.00 -0.42 0.00 -0.01 -0.02 — 12:09
3 Brayden McNabb D -0.54 +0.75 +0.07 -1.12 -0.30 0.00 +0.06 — 20:24
49 Ivan Barbashev L -0.63 0.00 0.00 -0.71 0.00 0.00 +0.08 — 15:26
42 Braeden Bowman R -0.83 0.00 0.00 -0.81 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 14:13

Columbus Blue Jackets

Player Rating Points Shots On ice Pen FO Other GSAx TOI
8 Zach Werenski D +1.81 +0.70 +0.04 +0.97 0.00 0.00 +0.10 — 25:53
86 Kirill Marchenko R +1.09 0.00 +0.24 +0.54 +0.30 0.00 0.00 — 18:46
59 Egor Chinakhov R +1.05 +0.75 +0.16 +0.16 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 9:53
91 Kent Johnson C +0.96 +0.55 0.00 +0.41 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 9:55
3 Charlie Coyle C +0.94 +0.75 +0.17 -0.01 0.00 -0.01 +0.05 — 17:50
5 Denton Mateychuk D +0.88 0.00 +0.03 +0.70 0.00 0.00 +0.15 — 20:18
15 Dante Fabbro D +0.75 +0.70 +0.02 -0.06 0.00 0.00 +0.08 — 13:54
4 Cole Sillinger C +0.73 +0.55 +0.13 +0.02 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 14:35
23 Sean Monahan C +0.52 0.00 +0.06 +0.33 0.00 +0.03 +0.10 — 17:58
19 Adam Fantilli C +0.49 0.00 +0.12 -0.13 +0.30 +0.04 +0.17 — 18:42
11 Miles Wood L +0.35 0.00 +0.01 +0.34 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 14:04
16 Brendan Gaunce C +0.19 0.00 0.00 +0.16 0.00 +0.03 0.00 — 10:44
10 Dmitri Voronkov L +0.14 0.00 0.00 +0.22 -0.15 0.00 +0.07 — 17:26
38 Boone Jenner C +0.08 0.00 +0.21 -0.24 0.00 0.00 +0.10 — 16:32
9 Ivan Provorov D +0.04 0.00 +0.04 +0.01 0.00 0.00 -0.01 — 23:24
21 Isac Lundeström C -0.05 0.00 +0.05 -0.09 0.00 +0.01 -0.02 — 14:59
78 Damon Severson D -0.14 0.00 0.00 0.00 -0.15 0.00 +0.01 — 20:38
7 Brendan Smith D -0.62 0.00 +0.03 -0.48 -0.15 0.00 -0.02 — 11:12
73 Jet Greaves G -1.12 0.00 — — 0.00 — — -1.12 58:52

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.