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Thursday, October 9, 2025 (10:00 PM ET)
SAP Center at San Jose | ESPN+
Vegas Golden Knights VGK
4-3
Final/OT
SJS San Jose Sharks
56% xGF Expected Goals Share 44% xGF
VGK was expected to score 2.87 goals SJS was expected to score 2.22 goals
Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 OT 0 1 2 3 Cumulative xG VGK SJS Dots represent goals
Goals & Replays
  • ► Jeff Skinner scores at 5:31 in the 1st period 0.21 xG (0-1)
  • ► Brett Howden scores at 8:09 in the 1st period 0.25 xG (1-1) End of Period 1
  • ► Alexander Wennberg scores at 6:59 in the 2nd period 0.16 xG (1-2)
  • ► Pavel Dorofeyev scores at 14:22 in the 2nd period 0.15 xG (2-2) End of Period 2
  • ► Philipp Kurashev scores at 2:59 in the 3rd period 0.06 xG (2-3)
  • ► Jack Eichel scores at 18:26 in the 3rd period 0.00 xG (3-3) End of Period 3
  • ► Reilly Smith scores at 1:24 in the OT period 0.22 xG (4-3) End of Game
  • ► Watch the full game recap here
xG by State
Vegas Golden Knights
San Jose Sharks
Strength State Time xG G Time xG G
Man-Advantage 8:21 0.49 1 7:03 0.49 1
Even Strength 46:00 2.32 3 46:00 1.70 2
Short-Handed 7:03 0.06 0 8:21 0.04 0
Score State Time xG G Time xG G
Up 1 0:00 0.00 0 25:28 0.90 0
Tied 35:56 1.52 1 35:56 1.33 3
Down 1 25:28 1.35 3 0:00 0.00 0
Shot Map (xG Shots Only) Shot Goal
Forwards
Team Player xG G A Pts Shifts TOI SOG +/- PIM PPG
VGK Pavel Dorofeyev (R) 0.57 1 0 1 19 18:10 4 0 0 1
SJS Jeff Skinner (L) 0.47 1 0 1 16 10:40 3 +1 0 0
VGK Brett Howden (C) 0.34 1 0 1 17 09:53 2 0 0 0
SJS Philipp Kurashev (C) 0.32 1 0 1 19 19:38 3 +1 0 0
VGK Reilly Smith (R) 0.28 1 0 1 19 13:21 3 +1 0 0
SJS Ty Dellandrea (C) 0.27 0 1 1 20 16:06 2 +2 0 0
VGK Ivan Barbashev (L) 0.27 0 0 0 19 14:13 1 0 0 0
SJS Tyler Toffoli (C) 0.23 0 0 0 21 14:45 2 -1 0 0
VGK Jack Eichel (C) 0.21 1 1 2 24 22:34 3 +1 0 0
VGK Mark Stone (R) 0.18 0 2 2 21 19:22 1 +1 0 0
SJS Alexander Wennberg (C) 0.16 1 0 1 24 17:58 2 -1 0 1
SJS Macklin Celebrini (C) 0.15 0 0 0 20 22:15 1 -1 0 0
SJS Collin Graf (R) 0.15 0 0 0 22 17:05 1 +2 0 0
VGK William Karlsson (C) 0.14 0 0 0 19 14:35 2 0 2 0
VGK Mitch Marner (R) 0.09 0 0 0 24 22:25 2 +2 2 0
VGK Tomas Hertl (C) 0.08 0 1 1 20 17:53 2 0 4 0
VGK Brandon Saad (L) 0.07 0 0 0 19 14:53 1 -1 0 0
SJS William Eklund (L) 0.05 0 1 1 22 17:27 1 -1 0 0
SJS Will Smith (C) 0.04 0 0 0 20 20:34 2 -1 2 0
VGK Colton Sissons (C) 0.02 0 0 0 20 11:51 1 0 0 0
VGK Keegan Kolesar (R) 0.01 0 1 1 17 09:44 1 0 0 0
SJS Ryan Reaves (R) 0.00 0 0 0 11 06:31 0 -1 0 0
SJS Adam Gaudette (R) 0.00 0 0 0 15 09:37 0 -1 2 0
SJS Barclay Goodrow (C) 0.00 0 0 0 18 10:27 0 -1 0 0
Defensemen
Team Player xG G A Pts Shifts TOI SOG +/- PIM PPG
VGK Shea Theodore (D) 0.39 0 1 1 28 24:52 3 +2 0 0
SJS John Klingberg (D) 0.21 0 1 1 21 22:24 3 -1 0 0
SJS Dmitry Orlov (D) 0.08 0 1 1 26 21:41 1 +1 0 0
VGK Kaedan Korczak (D) 0.08 0 0 0 22 14:50 2 0 0 0
VGK Brayden McNabb (D) 0.05 0 0 0 28 21:15 0 0 0 0
VGK Jeremy Lauzon (D) 0.05 0 0 0 25 18:18 1 -1 0 0
SJS Timothy Liljegren (D) 0.05 0 0 0 24 18:32 0 -1 0 0
VGK Zach Whitecloud (D) 0.03 0 0 0 24 15:13 1 -1 0 0
SJS Mario Ferraro (D) 0.02 0 0 0 24 18:39 2 -1 0 0
SJS Shakir Mukhamadullin (D) 0.02 0 2 2 20 12:45 0 +1 4 0
VGK Ben Hutton (D) 0.01 0 1 1 24 14:28 1 0 0 0
SJS Nick Leddy (D) 0.01 0 0 0 25 21:01 0 0 0 0
Goalies
Team Player SV%Ax SV% GSAx GA Saves TOI SA Dec SO
VGK Akira Schmid (G) -2.28% 0.870 -0.8 3 20 60:15 23 W 0
SJS Alex Nedeljkovic (G) -2.41% 0.871 -1.1 4 27 61:24 31 O 0