Game

Lightning at Golden Knights

Lightning 6, Golden Knights 3 · first star Nikita Kucherov (2 G, 1 A).

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

Tampa Bay Lightning 6 at Vegas Golden Knights 3

Lightning TBL

6 FINAL 3

Golden Knights VGK

Thursday, November 6, 2025 · 10:00 PM ET · T-Mobile Arena, Paradise · TV SN360 · TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Lightning	0	2	4	6	27
Golden Knights	2	0	1	3	32

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Lightning 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; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: TBL 27, VGK 32.

TBL in red VGK in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Lightning 27 shots on goal (6 goals, 24 missed, 18 blocked) attacking left; Golden Knights 32 shots on goal (3 goals, 10 missed, 18 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	TBL SOG	TBL G	TBL ATT	VGK SOG	VGK G	VGK ATT
1st	3	0	17	15	2	21
2nd	15	2	29	4	0	13
3rd	9	4	23	13	1	26
Total	27	6	69	32	3	60

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	TBL SOG	TBL G	VGK SOG	VGK G
Even strength	15	4	29	3
Power play	12	2	2	0
Short-handed	0	0	1	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Lightning took 53.5% of the shot attempts, and 48.9% of the 92 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 Lightning hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Lightning at Golden Knights
Period	VGK CF%	VGK FF%
1st	55.3	64.3
2nd	30.9	24.1
3rd	53.1	47.2
Game	46.5	45.2

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

Scoring summary

1st period

07:25 Ivan Barbashev (5) Noah Hanifin (1), Mitch Marner (12) · backhand 0–1
15:53 Ivan Barbashev (6) Mitch Marner (13), Jack Eichel (12) · snap 0–2

2nd period

00:36 Gage Goncalves (1) Dominic James (1) · wrist 1–2
03:28 Dominic James (1) Oliver Bjorkstrand (3), J.J. Moser (2) · wrist 2–2

3rd period

02:47 Nikita Kucherov (6) PP Oliver Bjorkstrand (4), Jake Guentzel (8) · wrist 3–2
03:37 Mitch Marner (4) Jack Eichel (13), Ivan Barbashev (8) · wrist 3–3
04:12 Brandon Hagel (5) Dominic James (2) · wrist 4–3
14:13 Nikita Kucherov (7) PP Victor Hedman (11), Brandon Hagel (6) · slap 5–3
19:13 Brandon Hagel (6) EN Nikita Kucherov (7) · wrist 6–3

Three stars

Nikita Kucherov TBL · R #86 · 2 G, 1 A
Mitch Marner VGK · R #93 · 1 G, 2 A
Dominic James TBL · C #17 · 1 G, 2 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
2nd	05:37	VGK	Ivan Barbashev	tripping	2	Yanni Gourde
2nd	11:37	VGK	Kaedan Korczak	high sticking	2	Gage Goncalves
3rd	00:48	VGK	Bench	too many men on the ice	2	—
3rd	04:56	TBL	Andrei Vasilevskiy	high sticking double minor	4	Reilly Smith
3rd	12:38	VGK	Jeremy Lauzon	tripping	2	Dominic James
3rd	15:15	TBL	Gage Goncalves	tripping	2	Jack Eichel

Boxscore

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lightning skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Brandon Hagel #38	L	2	1	3	+1	4	1	1	0	0.0	19:15
Nikita Kucherov #86	R	2	1	3	+1	5	0	0	0	0.0	20:20
Dominic James #17	C	1	2	3	+3	1	3	0	0	50.0	15:13
Oliver Bjorkstrand #22	R	0	2	2	+2	4	1	0	0	0.0	17:06
Gage Goncalves #93	C	1	0	1	+3	2	0	2	2	100.0	13:50
Jake Guentzel #59	C	0	1	1	0	3	2	3	0	66.7	21:44
J.J. Moser #90	D	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0.0	19:23
Victor Hedman #77	D	0	1	1	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	20:34
Anthony Cirelli #71	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	20.0	08:54
Brayden Point #21	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	11.1	17:41
Yanni Gourde #37	C	0	0	0	-3	3	0	0	0	50.0	15:54
Zemgus Girgensons #28	C	0	0	0	-1	0	4	2	0	37.5	18:20
Pontus Holmberg #29	R	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0.0	12:59
Charle-Edouard D'Astous #51	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	11:47
Darren Raddysh #43	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	07:52
Emil Lilleberg #78	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	12:05
Erik Cernak #81	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	3	0	0.0	20:32
Ryan McDonagh #27	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	1	0	0.0	20:31

Lightning goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy #88	W	32	29	3	.906	26/29	2/2	60:00

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	2	1	3	+1	3	0	0	2	0.0	16:28
Mitch Marner #93	R	1	2	3	+1	3	0	0	0	0.0	21:35
Jack Eichel #9	C	0	2	2	+1	7	0	1	0	54.5	21:54
Noah Hanifin #15	D	0	1	1	0	5	0	1	0	0.0	23:53
Brett Howden #21	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	15:10
Colton Sissons #10	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	45.5	08:37
Tomas Hertl #48	C	0	0	0	-2	1	0	0	0	46.2	17:56
William Karlsson #71	C	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	82.4	16:04
Brandon Saad #20	L	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	100.0	15:58
Cole Reinhardt #23	L	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	06:11
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	0	0.0	06:10
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	0.0	19:21
Reilly Smith #19	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	14:58
Brayden McNabb #3	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	0	0.0	18:41
Jeremy Lauzon #5	D	0	0	0	0	0	5	1	2	0.0	12:30
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	0.0	15:14
Shea Theodore #27	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	0	0.0	23:53
Zach Whitecloud #2	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0.0	19:16

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Carl Lindbom #30	L	26	21	5	.808	11/14	10/12	58:37

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.