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Tuesday, January 27, 2026 (7:00 PM ET)
Centre Bell | SCRIPPS
Vegas Golden Knights VGK
2-3
Final/OT
MTL Montreal Canadiens
55% xGF Expected Goals Share 45% xGF
VGK was expected to score 4.59 goals MTL was expected to score 3.75 goals
Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 OT 0 1 2 3 4 5 Cumulative xG VGK MTL Dots represent goals
Goals & Replays
  • ► Pavel Dorofeyev scores at 8:38 in the 1st period 0.09 xG (1-0) End of Period 1
  • ► Phillip Danault scores at 4:24 in the 2nd period 0.06 xG (1-1)
  • ► Cole Caufield scores at 8:55 in the 2nd period 0.18 xG (1-2) End of Period 2
  • ► Pavel Dorofeyev scores at 16:52 in the 3rd period 0.05 xG (2-2) End of Period 3
  • ► Jake Evans scores at 3:58 in the OT period 0.25 xG (2-3) End of Game
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xG by State
Vegas Golden Knights
Montreal Canadiens
Strength State Time xG G Time xG G
Man-Advantage 6:00 1.84 0 8:11 0.56 0
Even Strength 49:47 2.62 2 49:47 3.19 3
Short-Handed 8:11 0.14 0 6:00 0.00 0
Score State Time xG G Time xG G
Up 1 15:46 0.23 0 27:57 0.92 0
Tied 20:15 1.58 1 20:15 1.76 2
Down 1 27:57 2.78 1 15:46 1.07 1
Shot Map (xG Shots Only) Shot Goal
Forwards
Team Player xG G A Pts Shifts TOI SOG +/- PIM PPG
VGK Mark Stone (R) 1.33 0 0 0 24 23:00 4 -1 0 0
VGK Pavel Dorofeyev (R) 1.03 2 0 2 19 19:16 8 +2 0 0
MTL Jake Evans (C) 0.83 1 0 1 24 19:23 3 +1 0 0
VGK Tomas Hertl (C) 0.58 0 0 0 21 18:54 1 -1 0 0
MTL Cole Caufield (R) 0.56 1 0 1 21 19:27 5 +1 2 0
MTL Nick Suzuki (C) 0.33 0 0 0 21 19:17 1 +1 0 0
VGK Braeden Bowman (R) 0.32 0 1 1 17 15:26 1 +2 0 0
MTL Alexandre Texier (L) 0.32 0 1 1 17 16:45 2 +1 0 0
MTL Ivan Demidov (R) 0.26 0 0 0 17 16:23 1 -1 0 0
VGK Jack Eichel (C) 0.26 0 0 0 25 26:00 3 -2 0 0
MTL Kirby Dach (C) 0.26 0 0 0 16 14:05 1 0 0 0
VGK Mitch Marner (R) 0.22 0 0 0 24 22:26 4 +2 0 0
MTL Juraj Slafkovský (L) 0.21 0 0 0 16 17:54 1 -1 0 0
MTL Brendan Gallagher (R) 0.17 0 0 0 14 12:04 1 +1 0 0
VGK Reilly Smith (R) 0.16 0 0 0 18 14:44 1 -1 0 0
MTL Oliver Kapanen (C) 0.16 0 0 0 17 15:16 1 -1 2 0
MTL Phillip Danault (C) 0.11 1 0 1 20 15:12 3 0 0 0
MTL Josh Anderson (R) 0.10 0 0 0 16 12:34 0 -1 0 0
MTL Zachary Bolduc (R) 0.08 0 1 1 16 12:12 1 +1 0 0
VGK Alexander Holtz (R) 0.07 0 0 0 8 05:18 0 -1 2 0
VGK Ivan Barbashev (L) 0.03 0 0 0 19 16:20 1 0 2 0
VGK Keegan Kolesar (R) 0.00 0 0 0 20 15:13 0 0 0 0
VGK Tanner Laczynski (C) 0.00 0 0 0 9 06:27 0 -1 0 0
VGK Cole Reinhardt (L) 0.00 0 0 0 8 05:33 0 -1 0 0
Defensemen
Team Player xG G A Pts Shifts TOI SOG +/- PIM PPG
VGK Rasmus Andersson (D) 0.21 0 0 0 29 22:49 5 0 2 0
MTL Lane Hutson (D) 0.16 0 0 0 22 25:04 2 -1 2 0
VGK Noah Hanifin (D) 0.16 0 0 0 27 22:22 2 -1 0 0
MTL Noah Dobson (D) 0.12 0 1 1 25 20:41 0 +2 0 0
VGK Shea Theodore (D) 0.09 0 0 0 31 24:19 1 -1 2 0
VGK Kaedan Korczak (D) 0.08 0 0 0 22 15:40 0 0 0 0
MTL Mike Matheson (D) 0.04 0 1 1 26 24:25 2 +2 0 0
VGK Jeremy Lauzon (D) 0.03 0 0 0 27 20:51 1 -1 0 0
MTL Kaiden Guhle (D) 0.02 0 0 0 23 19:42 1 0 0 0
VGK Ben Hutton (D) 0.01 0 1 1 18 13:14 2 +1 0 0
MTL Alexandre Carrier (D) 0.01 0 0 0 27 21:23 1 -2 0 0
MTL Arber Xhekaj (D) 0.00 0 0 0 10 08:16 0 +1 0 0
Goalies
Team Player SV%Ax SV% GSAx GA Saves TOI SA Dec SO
MTL Jakub Dobes (G) +5.76% 0.941 2.6 2 32 63:47 34 W 0
VGK Akira Schmid (G) +1.70% 0.885 0.7 3 23 63:58 26 O 0