Game

Golden Knights at Sharks

Golden Knights 4, Sharks 3 in overtime · first star Reilly Smith (1 G, 0 A).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Vegas Golden Knights 4 at San Jose Sharks 3

Golden Knights VGK

4 FINAL/OT 3

Sharks SJS

Thursday, October 9, 2025 · 10:00 PM ET · SAP Center at San Jose, San Jose · TV ESPN+ · HULU

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	OT	T	SOG
Golden Knights	1	1	1	1	4	31
Sharks	1	1	1	0	3	23

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Golden Knights attack left, Sharks attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 2 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: VGK 31, SJS 23.

VGK in red SJS in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Golden Knights 31 shots on goal (4 goals, 16 missed, 15 blocked) attacking left; Sharks 23 shots on goal (3 goals, 12 missed, 18 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	VGK SOG	VGK G	VGK ATT	SJS SOG	SJS G	SJS ATT
1st	10	1	21	9	1	17
2nd	11	1	20	6	1	19
3rd	8	1	19	8	1	17
OT	2	1	2	0	0	0
Total	31	4	62	23	3	53

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	VGK SOG	VGK G	SJS SOG	SJS G
Even strength	27	3	19	2
Power play	4	1	4	1
Short-handed	0	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Golden Knights took 53.9% of the shot attempts, and 56.6% of the 83 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Sharks and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Golden Knights hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Golden Knights at Sharks
Period	SJS CF%	SJS FF%
1st	44.7	41.4
2nd	48.7	40.0
3rd	47.2	50.0
OT	0.0	0.0
Game	46.1	42.7

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

1st period

05:31 Jeff Skinner (1) Ty Dellandrea (1), Shakir Mukhamadullin (1) · bat 0–1
08:09 Brett Howden (1) Keegan Kolesar (1), Ben Hutton (1) · wrist 1–1

2nd period

06:59 Alexander Wennberg (1) PP William Eklund (1), John Klingberg (1) · wrist 1–2
14:22 Pavel Dorofeyev (4) PP Mark Stone (3), Jack Eichel (4) · snap 2–2

3rd period

02:59 Philipp Kurashev (1) Dmitry Orlov (1), Shakir Mukhamadullin (2) · tip-in 2–3
18:26 Jack Eichel (2) Mark Stone (4), Tomas Hertl (1) · wrist 3–3

Overtime

01:24 Reilly Smith (1) Shea Theodore (1) · wrist 4–3

Three stars

Reilly Smith VGK · R #19 · 1 G, 0 A
Jeff Skinner SJS · L #53 · 1 G, 0 A
Philipp Kurashev SJS · C #96 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	10:53	SJS	Shakir Mukhamadullin	high sticking	2	Jack Eichel
2nd	02:35	VGK	William Karlsson	cross checking	2	Macklin Celebrini
2nd	05:38	VGK	Tomas Hertl	boarding	2	Ty Dellandrea
2nd	06:31	VGK	Mitch Marner	slashing	2	Macklin Celebrini
2nd	14:15	SJS	Shakir Mukhamadullin	hooking	2	Pavel Dorofeyev
2nd	16:55	SJS	Adam Gaudette	hooking	2	Brett Howden
3rd	07:33	VGK	Tomas Hertl	illegal check to head	2	Jeff Skinner
3rd	15:02	SJS	Will Smith	hooking	2	Colton Sissons

Boxscore

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Jack Eichel #9	C	1	1	2	+1	3	2	1	0	64.7	22:34
Mark Stone #61	R	0	2	2	+1	1	2	2	0	0.0	19:22
Brett Howden #21	C	1	0	1	0	2	2	0	0	50.0	09:53
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	1	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	0.0	18:10
Reilly Smith #19	R	1	0	1	+1	3	0	0	0	0.0	13:21
Tomas Hertl #48	C	0	1	1	0	2	1	0	4	50.0	17:53
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	09:44
Ben Hutton #17	D	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	14:28
Shea Theodore #27	D	0	1	1	+2	3	0	4	0	0.0	24:52
Colton Sissons #10	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	72.7	11:51
William Karlsson #71	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	2	46.7	14:35
Brandon Saad #20	L	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	14:53
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0.0	14:13
Mitch Marner #93	R	0	0	0	+2	2	2	0	2	100.0	22:25
Brayden McNabb #3	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	0	0.0	21:15
Jeremy Lauzon #5	D	0	0	0	-1	1	3	1	0	0.0	18:18
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0.0	14:50
Zach Whitecloud #2	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	0	0.0	15:13

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Akira Schmid #40	W	23	20	3	.870	17/19	3/4	60:15

San Jose Sharks

Sharks skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Shakir Mukhamadullin #85	D	0	2	2	+1	0	0	1	4	0.0	12:45
Alexander Wennberg #21	C	1	0	1	-1	2	0	2	0	46.2	17:58
Philipp Kurashev #96	C	1	0	1	+1	3	2	1	0	0.0	19:38
Jeff Skinner #53	L	1	0	1	+1	3	2	0	0	0.0	10:40
Ty Dellandrea #10	C	0	1	1	+2	2	4	1	0	52.9	16:06
William Eklund #72	L	0	1	1	-1	1	1	0	0	0.0	17:27
Dmitry Orlov #9	D	0	1	1	+1	1	2	0	0	0.0	21:41
John Klingberg #3	D	0	1	1	-1	3	0	0	0	0.0	22:24
Barclay Goodrow #23	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	2	0	0.0	10:27
Macklin Celebrini #71	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	47.6	22:15
Tyler Toffoli #73	C	0	0	0	-1	2	1	0	0	0.0	14:45
Will Smith #2	C	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	2	0.0	20:34
Adam Gaudette #81	R	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	2	27.3	09:37
Collin Graf #51	R	0	0	0	+2	1	0	0	0	0.0	17:05
Ryan Reaves #75	R	0	0	0	-1	0	5	0	0	0.0	06:31
Mario Ferraro #38	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	2	0	0.0	18:39
Nick Leddy #4	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0.0	21:01
Timothy Liljegren #37	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	2	0	0.0	18:32

Sharks goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Alex Nedeljkovic #33	O	31	27	4	.871	24/27	3/4	61:24

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.