Game

Hurricanes at Golden Knights

Golden Knights 4, Hurricanes 1 · first star Akira Schmid (0 GA, .957 SV%).

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

Carolina Hurricanes 1 at Vegas Golden Knights 4

Hurricanes CAR

1 FINAL 4

Golden Knights VGK

Monday, October 20, 2025 · 10:00 PM ET · T-Mobile Arena, Paradise

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Hurricanes	0	1	0	1	27
Golden Knights	2	0	2	4	26

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Hurricanes attack left, Golden Knights 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; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: CAR 27, VGK 26.

CAR in red VGK in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Hurricanes 27 shots on goal (1 goal, 10 missed, 25 blocked) attacking left; Golden Knights 26 shots on goal (4 goals, 11 missed, 18 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	CAR SOG	CAR G	CAR ATT	VGK SOG	VGK G	VGK ATT
1st	8	0	21	8	2	20
2nd	9	1	19	7	0	15
3rd	10	0	22	11	2	20
Total	27	1	62	26	4	55

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	CAR SOG	CAR G	VGK SOG	VGK G
Even strength	20	1	23	4
Power play	5	0	1	0
Short-handed	2	0	2	0
Into an empty net	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Hurricanes took 53.0% of the shot attempts, and 53.1% of the 96 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 Hurricanes hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Hurricanes at Golden Knights
Period	VGK CF%	VGK FF%
1st	48.8	58.3
2nd	44.1	47.6
3rd	47.6	44.8
Game	47.0	50.0

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

Scoring summary

1st period

08:42 Jack Eichel (6) Brandon Saad (1), Ivan Barbashev (5) · wrist 0–1
10:28 Pavel Dorofeyev (7) Mitch Marner (7), Tomas Hertl (4) · backhand 0–2

2nd period

04:18 Sebastian Aho (2) Seth Jarvis (3), Nikolaj Ehlers (1) · wrist 1–2

3rd period

11:06 Ivan Barbashev (3) Unassisted · wrist 1–3
18:23 William Karlsson (3) EN Mitch Marner (8), Shea Theodore (2) · wrist 1–4

Three stars

Akira Schmid VGK · G #40 · 0 GA, .957 SV%
Ivan Barbashev VGK · L #49 · 1 G, 1 A
Brandon Saad VGK · L #20 · 0 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	12:43	CAR	Sean Walker	interference	2	Reilly Smith
1st	19:45	VGK	Pavel Dorofeyev	hooking	2	Sean Walker
2nd	08:22	CAR	Nikolaj Ehlers	slashing	2	Shea Theodore
2nd	09:46	VGK	Tomas Hertl	interference	2	Eric Robinson
2nd	14:33	VGK	Shea Theodore	slashing	2	Nikolaj Ehlers
2nd	15:34	CAR	Nikolaj Ehlers	tripping	2	Brayden McNabb
3rd	12:01	CAR	Alexander Nikishin	slashing	2	Colton Sissons
3rd	18:39	VGK	Colton Sissons	high sticking	2	Mike Reilly

Boxscore

Carolina Hurricanes

Hurricanes skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Sebastian Aho #20	C	1	0	1	-2	3	2	0	0	50.0	21:01
Nikolaj Ehlers #27	L	0	1	1	-1	2	0	0	4	0.0	18:22
Seth Jarvis #24	R	0	1	1	-2	2	0	0	0	100.0	21:25
Jesperi Kotkaniemi #82	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	0	40.0	08:54
Jordan Staal #11	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	52.9	13:36
Logan Stankoven #22	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	33.3	16:32
Eric Robinson #50	L	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	09:14
Jordan Martinook #48	L	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0.0	13:13
Taylor Hall #71	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	14:11
William Carrier #28	L	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	09:54
Andrei Svechnikov #37	R	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	100.0	13:38
Jackson Blake #53	R	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	16:02
Alexander Nikishin #21	D	0	0	0	-1	1	4	5	2	0.0	21:08
Charles Alexis Legault #62	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0.0	12:30
Jalen Chatfield #5	D	0	0	0	-1	2	1	2	0	0.0	20:53
K'Andre Miller #19	D	0	0	0	-3	2	0	1	0	0.0	24:02
Mike Reilly #6	D	0	0	0	+1	3	0	1	0	0.0	14:45
Sean Walker #26	D	0	0	0	-2	4	2	2	2	0.0	23:48

Hurricanes goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Frederik Andersen #31	L	25	22	3	.880	19/22	1/1	58:52

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	1	1	2	+2	2	0	0	0	0.0	14:31
Mitch Marner #93	R	0	2	2	+2	0	1	0	0	100.0	20:37
Jack Eichel #9	C	1	0	1	+3	4	0	0	0	50.0	21:30
William Karlsson #71	C	1	0	1	+1	2	0	1	0	69.2	15:37
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	1	0	1	+1	4	1	1	2	0.0	17:06
Tomas Hertl #48	C	0	1	1	+1	2	0	1	2	55.6	18:10
Brandon Saad #20	L	0	1	1	+2	4	1	0	0	0.0	16:32
Shea Theodore #27	D	0	1	1	+2	1	0	3	2	0.0	23:58
Colton Sissons #10	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	2	36.4	11:48
Cole Reinhardt #23	L	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	07:26
Alexander Holtz #26	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0.0	09:51
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	0	0	0	-1	0	2	2	0	0.0	12:12
Reilly Smith #19	R	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	13:40
Ben Hutton #17	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	16:04
Brayden McNabb #3	D	0	0	0	+2	1	1	3	0	0.0	21:45
Jeremy Lauzon #5	D	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0.0	17:52
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0.0	17:17
Zach Whitecloud #2	D	0	0	0	+1	1	1	4	0	0.0	16:43

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Adin Hill #33	—	4	4	0	1.000	4/4	0/0	09:54
Akira Schmid #40	W	23	22	1	.957	15/16	5/5	50:06

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.