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Saturday, March 15, 2025 (12:30 PM ET)
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Vegas Golden Knights VGK
3-4
Final/SO
BUF Buffalo Sabres
46% xGF Expected Goals Share 54% xGF
VGK was expected to score 2.11 goals BUF was expected to score 2.49 goals
Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 OT 0 1 2 Cumulative xG VGK BUF Dots represent goals
Goals & Replays
  • ► Brett Howden scores at 12:07 in the 1st period 0.19 xG (1-0) End of Period 1
  • ► Pavel Dorofeyev scores at 12:06 in the 2nd period 0.10 xG (2-0)
  • ► Ryan McLeod scores at 12:13 in the 2nd period 0.05 xG (2-1) End of Period 2
  • ► Jason Zucker scores at 9:53 in the 3rd period 0.20 xG (2-2)
  • ► Jack Eichel scores at 17:27 in the 3rd period 0.41 xG (3-2)
  • ► Rasmus Dahlin scores at 19:46 in the 3rd period 0.05 xG (3-3) End of Period 3
  • No goals this period End of OT
  • BUF wins in the shootout End of Game
  • ► Watch the full game recap here
xG by State
Vegas Golden Knights
Buffalo Sabres
Strength State Time xG G Time xG G
Man-Advantage 2:00 0.00 0 3:44 0.44 1
Even Strength 59:16 2.11 3 59:16 2.06 2
Short-Handed 3:44 0.00 0 2:00 0.00 0
Score State Time xG G Time xG G
Up 1 39:58 0.87 1 0:00 0.00 0
Tied 24:42 1.24 2 24:42 1.04 0
Down 1 0:00 0.00 0 39:58 1.40 2
Down 2+ 0:00 0.00 0 0:07 0.05 1
Shot Map (xG Shots Only) Shot Goal
Forwards
Team Player xG G A Pts Shifts TOI SOG +/- PIM PPG
VGK Jack Eichel (C) 0.69 1 0 1 24 23:04 2 -1 0 0
BUF Jason Zucker (L) 0.38 1 0 1 26 20:12 4 +2 0 1
VGK Ivan Barbashev (L) 0.32 0 1 1 22 17:19 1 +1 0 0
BUF Tage Thompson (C) 0.29 0 1 1 29 22:57 5 -2 0 0
VGK Brett Howden (C) 0.28 1 0 1 20 15:10 1 0 5 0
BUF Tyson Kozak (C) 0.27 0 0 0 16 09:04 1 0 0 0
VGK Victor Olofsson (L) 0.26 0 0 0 17 12:54 3 0 0 0
BUF Zach Benson (L) 0.25 0 0 0 26 19:18 1 +1 0 0
BUF Ryan McLeod (C) 0.25 1 0 1 29 22:05 3 +2 0 0
BUF Sam Lafferty (C) 0.20 0 0 0 19 12:21 3 -1 0 0
VGK Keegan Kolesar (R) 0.20 0 0 0 17 12:34 2 0 5 0
BUF Jiri Kulich (C) 0.13 0 0 0 10 08:08 2 0 0 0
BUF Alex Tuch (R) 0.13 0 0 0 30 23:16 1 -1 0 0
BUF Jack Quinn (R) 0.11 0 0 0 17 09:57 3 -1 0 0
VGK Pavel Dorofeyev (R) 0.10 1 0 1 19 14:31 1 +1 2 0
VGK Mark Stone (R) 0.09 0 1 1 23 22:28 2 -1 0 0
BUF Beck Malenstyn (L) 0.04 0 0 0 21 14:52 3 -1 0 0
BUF Jordan Greenway (L) 0.04 0 0 0 26 17:09 0 -1 5 0
VGK Tanner Pearson (L) 0.02 0 1 1 17 12:00 2 +2 0 0
VGK Brandon Saad (L) 0.02 0 0 0 15 12:56 0 0 0 0
VGK Reilly Smith (R) 0.00 0 0 0 20 15:28 0 0 0 0
VGK Tomas Hertl (C) 0.00 0 1 1 20 15:06 0 +1 0 0
VGK Nicolas Roy (C) 0.00 0 0 0 20 16:02 0 0 0 0
BUF Peyton Krebs (C) 0.00 0 0 0 19 12:09 0 0 17 0
Defensemen
Team Player xG G A Pts Shifts TOI SOG +/- PIM PPG
BUF Rasmus Dahlin (D) 0.29 1 0 1 29 26:48 5 -2 0 0
VGK Zach Whitecloud (D) 0.09 0 0 0 25 22:16 1 +1 0 0
BUF Mattias Samuelsson (D) 0.03 0 0 0 23 18:16 1 -2 0 0
BUF Connor Clifton (D) 0.02 0 0 0 20 17:43 2 0 0 0
BUF Owen Power (D) 0.02 0 0 0 24 19:48 1 -1 0 0
BUF Jacob Bryson (D) 0.02 0 1 1 23 16:30 2 +1 0 0
VGK Alex Pietrangelo (D) 0.02 0 1 1 27 20:58 2 +1 0 0
BUF Bowen Byram (D) 0.01 0 2 2 25 23:54 0 +2 0 0
VGK Nicolas Hague (D) 0.01 0 0 0 24 17:01 1 +2 0 0
VGK Noah Hanifin (D) 0.01 0 0 0 27 28:05 1 +1 0 0
VGK Brayden McNabb (D) 0.00 0 0 0 20 19:50 0 -2 0 0
VGK Kaedan Korczak (D) 0.00 0 0 0 19 15:01 0 -1 0 0
Goalies
Team Player SV%Ax SV% GSAx GA Saves TOI SA Dec SO
VGK Adin Hill (G) -0.94% 0.919 -0.5 3 34 65:00 37 O 0
BUF Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (G) -2.63% 0.842 -0.9 3 16 63:33 19 W 0