Game

Bruins at Golden Knights

Golden Knights 6, Bruins 5 · first star William Karlsson (2 G, 0 A).

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

Boston Bruins 5 at Vegas Golden Knights 6

Bruins BOS

5 FINAL 6

Golden Knights VGK

Thursday, October 16, 2025 · 10:00 PM ET · T-Mobile Arena, Paradise

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Bruins	2	1	2	5	24
Golden Knights	2	3	1	6	37

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Bruins attack left, Golden Knights attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 1 mark in a team's own end is an attempt logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: BOS 24, VGK 37.

BOS in red VGK in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Bruins 24 shots on goal (5 goals, 17 missed, 24 blocked) attacking left; Golden Knights 37 shots on goal (6 goals, 15 missed, 23 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BOS SOG	BOS G	BOS ATT	VGK SOG	VGK G	VGK ATT
1st	9	2	23	11	2	24
2nd	7	1	23	13	3	26
3rd	8	2	19	13	1	25
Total	24	5	65	37	6	75

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BOS SOG	BOS G	VGK SOG	VGK G
Even strength	20	4	25	3
Power play	4	1	10	2
Short-handed	0	0	2	1

Attempt share by period

Golden Knights took 53.6% of the shot attempts, and 48.6% of the 111 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 Golden Knights and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Bruins hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Bruins at Golden Knights
Period	VGK CF%	VGK FF%
1st	51.1	50.0
2nd	53.1	57.1
3rd	56.8	60.0
Game	53.6	55.9

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

Scoring summary

1st period

02:05 Tanner Jeannot (2) Charlie McAvoy (2), Michael Eyssimont (2) · wrist 1–0
03:35 Pavel Dorofeyev (6) Mitch Marner (5), Zach Whitecloud (1) · snap 1–1
16:44 Nikita Zadorov (1) Henri Jokiharju (2), Sean Kuraly (1) · wrist 2–1
18:33 Cole Reinhardt (1) Ben Hutton (2), Colton Sissons (1) · wrist 2–2

2nd period

04:14 Jack Eichel (5) Mark Stone (7), Ivan Barbashev (3) · wrist 2–3
06:35 Tomas Hertl (2) PP Pavel Dorofeyev (1), Mark Stone (8) · deflected 2–4
08:15 David Pastrnak (2) PP Morgan Geekie (2), Elias Lindholm (3) · wrist 3–4
18:24 William Karlsson (1) SH Mark Stone (9) · backhand 3–5

3rd period

02:19 William Karlsson (2) PP Mitch Marner (6), Jack Eichel (6) · wrist 3–6
04:05 Mark Kastelic (2) Sean Kuraly (2) · snap 4–6
05:12 Michael Eyssimont (1) Mason Lohrei (1) · wrist 5–6

Three stars

William Karlsson VGK · C #71 · 2 G, 0 A
Mark Stone VGK · R #61 · 0 G, 3 A
Jack Eichel VGK · C #9 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
2nd	05:27	BOS	Elias Lindholm	high sticking	2	Tomas Hertl
2nd	07:16	VGK	Jeremy Lauzon	holding	2	Mark Kastelic
2nd	10:26	BOS	Michael Eyssimont	cross checking	2	Brayden McNabb
2nd	10:57	BOS	Pavel Zacha	high sticking double minor	4	Tomas Hertl
2nd	16:50	VGK	Kaedan Korczak	interference	2	Viktor Arvidsson
3rd	01:02	BOS	Charlie McAvoy	high sticking	2	Mark Stone
3rd	09:14	VGK	Tomas Hertl	interference goalkeeper	2	Jeremy Swayman
3rd	18:56	BOS	Morgan Geekie	interference	2	Ivan Barbashev

Boxscore

Boston Bruins

Bruins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Michael Eyssimont #81	C	1	1	2	+1	2	0	0	2	0.0	10:13
Sean Kuraly #52	C	0	2	2	+3	1	2	0	0	45.5	16:59
Mark Kastelic #47	C	1	0	1	+2	1	3	4	0	62.5	13:22
Tanner Jeannot #84	L	1	0	1	+1	2	3	2	0	0.0	10:41
David Pastrnak #88	R	1	0	1	-2	4	1	0	0	0.0	22:26
Nikita Zadorov #91	D	1	0	1	+1	3	2	1	0	0.0	20:31
Elias Lindholm #28	C	0	1	1	-1	3	2	2	2	50.0	20:34
Morgan Geekie #39	C	0	1	1	-2	2	2	0	2	66.7	17:47
Charlie McAvoy #73	D	0	1	1	0	1	1	3	2	0.0	27:20
Henri Jokiharju #20	D	0	1	1	+1	2	1	1	0	0.0	19:06
Mason Lohrei #6	D	0	1	1	+1	0	1	1	0	0.0	20:43
Casey Mittelstadt #11	C	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	46.2	11:21
Fraser Minten #93	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	40.0	11:32
Pavel Zacha #18	C	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	4	50.0	17:54
Jeffrey Viel #48	L	0	0	0	+2	0	4	1	0	0.0	11:50
Viktor Arvidsson #71	L	0	0	0	-2	1	1	1	0	0.0	10:27
Andrew Peeke #26	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	2	0	0.0	15:13
Jordan Harris #43	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	13:31

Bruins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jeremy Swayman #1	L	37	31	6	.838	22/25	8/10	59:01

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Mark Stone #61	R	0	3	3	+1	6	0	1	0	0.0	22:30
William Karlsson #71	C	2	0	2	-1	3	0	2	0	42.9	15:17
Jack Eichel #9	C	1	1	2	0	9	0	3	0	43.5	24:11
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	1	1	2	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	17:09
Mitch Marner #93	R	0	2	2	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	21:07
Tomas Hertl #48	C	1	0	1	0	6	1	0	2	68.2	16:08
Cole Reinhardt #23	L	1	0	1	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	09:41
Colton Sissons #10	C	0	1	1	+1	0	2	2	0	41.7	11:07
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	16:15
Ben Hutton #17	D	0	1	1	0	2	0	3	0	0.0	12:18
Zach Whitecloud #2	D	0	1	1	+1	0	1	1	0	0.0	17:59
Brandon Saad #20	L	0	0	0	-2	0	0	1	0	0.0	11:15
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	0	0.0	09:19
Reilly Smith #19	R	0	0	0	-2	2	1	0	0	0.0	12:22
Brayden McNabb #3	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0.0	23:25
Jeremy Lauzon #5	D	0	0	0	-1	0	3	3	2	0.0	16:29
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	0	0	-1	2	5	2	2	0.0	15:28
Shea Theodore #27	D	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	23:01

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Akira Schmid #40	W	24	19	5	.792	16/20	3/4	60:00

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.