Game

Avalanche at Golden Knights

Avalanche 4, Golden Knights 2 · first star Martin Necas (1 G, 2 A).

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

Colorado Avalanche 4 at Vegas Golden Knights 2

Avalanche COL

4 FINAL 2

Golden Knights VGK

Friday, October 31, 2025 · 4:00 PM ET · T-Mobile Arena, Paradise · TV SN1

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Avalanche	1	1	2	4	26
Golden Knights	0	0	2	2	23

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Avalanche attack left, Golden Knights attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 3 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: COL 26, VGK 23.

COL in red VGK in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Avalanche 26 shots on goal (4 goals, 15 missed, 11 blocked) attacking left; Golden Knights 23 shots on goal (2 goals, 18 missed, 25 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	COL SOG	COL G	COL ATT	VGK SOG	VGK G	VGK ATT
1st	10	1	16	9	0	23
2nd	10	1	22	7	0	19
3rd	6	2	14	7	2	24
Total	26	4	52	23	2	66

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	COL SOG	COL G	VGK SOG	VGK G
Even strength	23	4	18	1
Power play	1	0	5	1
Short-handed	2	0	0	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Golden Knights took 55.9% of the shot attempts, and 51.6% of the 95 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 Avalanche hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Avalanche at Golden Knights
Period	VGK CF%	VGK FF%
1st	59.0	53.6
2nd	46.3	40.0
3rd	63.2	58.3
Game	55.9	50.0

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

Scoring summary

1st period

00:41 Martin Necas (8) Cale Makar (13), Devon Toews (2) · slap 1–0

2nd period

04:32 Brock Nelson (3) Jack Drury (3) · wrist 2–0

3rd period

02:51 Tomas Hertl (5) PP Shea Theodore (5), Mitch Marner (11) · wrist 2–1
10:11 Brent Burns (1) Martin Necas (7) · wrist 3–1
12:01 Mitch Marner (3) Tomas Hertl (6), Ben Hutton (3) · wrist 3–2
18:22 Cale Makar (4) EN Martin Necas (8), Nathan MacKinnon (9) · wrist 4–2

Three stars

Martin Necas COL · C #88 · 1 G, 2 A
Brent Burns COL · D #84 · 1 G, 0 A
Tomas Hertl VGK · C #48 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	11:06	COL	Jack Drury	hooking	2	Ivan Barbashev
2nd	02:24	COL	Gabriel Landeskog	hooking	2	Tomas Hertl
2nd	05:26	COL	Brent Burns	slashing	2	Pavel Dorofeyev
2nd	14:00	VGK	Zach Whitecloud	holding	2	Gabriel Landeskog
2nd	16:58	COL	Parker Kelly	slashing	2	Cole Reinhardt
3rd	01:26	COL	Brent Burns	tripping	2	Tomas Hertl
3rd	01:55	COL	Devon Toews	hooking	2	Jack Eichel
3rd	02:11	VGK	Pavel Dorofeyev	holding the stick	2	Josh Manson

Boxscore

Colorado Avalanche

Avalanche skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Martin Necas #88	C	1	2	3	+3	2	1	0	0	0.0	19:57
Cale Makar #8	D	1	1	2	+3	2	0	1	0	0.0	26:41
Brock Nelson #11	C	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	63.6	20:00
Brent Burns #84	D	1	0	1	+1	2	0	1	4	0.0	21:01
Jack Drury #18	C	0	1	1	+1	1	0	2	2	20.0	14:30
Nathan MacKinnon #29	C	0	1	1	+3	2	1	3	0	56.5	20:09
Devon Toews #7	D	0	1	1	+1	0	0	1	2	0.0	22:56
Gavin Brindley #54	C	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0.0	04:00
Parker Kelly #17	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	0.0	11:45
Ross Colton #20	C	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	100.0	12:11
Zakhar Bardakov #93	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	03:54
Artturi Lehkonen #62	L	0	0	0	+3	4	0	2	0	0.0	17:47
Gabriel Landeskog #92	L	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	0.0	13:11
Victor Olofsson #95	L	0	0	0	-1	3	0	0	0	0.0	13:10
Valeri Nichushkin #13	R	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	20:07
Ilya Solovyov #28	D	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	0	0.0	11:27
Josh Manson #42	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0.0	19:39
Sam Malinski #70	D	0	0	0	+1	3	0	4	0	0.0	16:10

Avalanche goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Scott Wedgewood #41	W	23	21	2	.913	17/18	4/5	60:00

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Tomas Hertl #48	C	1	1	2	-1	2	0	0	0	73.7	20:07
Mitch Marner #93	R	1	1	2	-1	4	0	0	0	0.0	23:29
Ben Hutton #17	D	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0.0	17:17
Shea Theodore #27	D	0	1	1	-2	2	0	2	0	0.0	25:42
Brett Howden #21	C	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	36.4	14:10
Jack Eichel #9	C	0	0	0	-2	3	0	1	0	41.2	21:23
William Karlsson #71	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	54.5	13:56
Brandon Saad #20	L	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0.0	11:09
Cole Reinhardt #23	L	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	0	50.0	11:08
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	0	0	0	-3	0	3	0	0	0.0	15:36
Alexander Holtz #26	R	0	0	0	-2	1	0	1	0	0.0	12:00
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	09:32
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	20:42
Reilly Smith #19	R	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	13:26
Brayden McNabb #3	D	0	0	0	-2	1	2	0	0	0.0	18:44
Jeremy Lauzon #5	D	0	0	0	-1	0	4	0	0	0.0	16:29
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	17:08
Zach Whitecloud #2	D	0	0	0	+1	0	1	1	2	0.0	14:23

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Carl Lindbom #30	L	25	22	3	.880	19/22	1/1	59:39

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.