Game

Blackhawks at Golden Knights

Golden Knights 4, Blackhawks 3 in a shootout · first star Shea Theodore (0 G, 2 A).

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

Chicago Blackhawks 3 at Vegas Golden Knights 4

Blackhawks CHI

3 FINAL/SO 4

Golden Knights VGK

Tuesday, December 2, 2025 · 10:00 PM ET · T-Mobile Arena, Paradise · TV ESPN+ · HULU · SN

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	1OT	SO	T	SOG
Blackhawks	1	1	1	0	0	3	30
Golden Knights	1	1	1	0	1	4	28

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Blackhawks 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. Boxscore shots on goal: CHI 30, VGK 28.

CHI in red VGK in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Blackhawks 30 shots on goal (3 goals, 17 missed, 18 blocked) attacking left; Golden Knights 28 shots on goal (3 goals, 13 missed, 17 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	CHI SOG	CHI G	CHI ATT	VGK SOG	VGK G	VGK ATT
1st	8	1	19	8	1	12
2nd	10	1	20	9	1	21
3rd	6	1	14	9	1	22
OT	6	0	12	2	0	3
Total	30	3	65	28	3	58

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	CHI SOG	CHI G	VGK SOG	VGK G
Even strength	26	3	26	3
Power play	4	0	1	0
Short-handed	0	0	1	0

Attempt share by period

Blackhawks took 52.9% of the shot attempts, and 48.3% of the 87 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 Blackhawks hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Blackhawks at Golden Knights
Period	VGK CF%	VGK FF%
1st	38.7	36.0
2nd	51.2	53.6
3rd	61.1	60.0
OT	20.0	20.0
Game	47.1	46.6

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

Scoring summary

1st period

00:27 Ivan Barbashev (9) Braeden Bowman (4), Shea Theodore (12) · wrist 0–1
01:23 Oliver Moore (3) Tyler Bertuzzi (9), Frank Nazar (13) · wrist 1–1

2nd period

11:22 Tyler Bertuzzi (14) Unassisted · wrist 2–1
17:19 Ben Hutton (3) Mark Stone (13) · slap 2–2

3rd period

04:45 Connor Bedard (17) Andre Burakovsky (11), Ryan Greene (5) · snap 3–2
17:32 Braeden Bowman (5) Shea Theodore (13), Ivan Barbashev (13) · backhand 3–3

Shootout

00:00 Shea Theodore Unassisted · backhand 3–4

Three stars

Shea Theodore VGK · D #27 · 0 G, 2 A
Braeden Bowman VGK · R #42 · 1 G, 1 A
Carter Hart VGK · G #79 · 0 GA, .900 SV%

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	05:46	VGK	Ivan Barbashev	slashing	2	Ryan Donato
1st	13:25	VGK	Shea Theodore	holding	2	Connor Bedard
2nd	05:02	CHI	Sam Rinzel	holding	2	Jack Eichel
2nd	06:43	VGK	Carter Hart	tripping	2	Ilya Mikheyev
2nd	11:22	VGK	Bench	delaying game unsuccessful challenge	2	—
2nd	11:44	CHI	Frank Nazar	hooking	2	Colton Sissons
3rd	08:45	VGK	Zach Whitecloud	slashing	2	Frank Nazar

Boxscore

Chicago Blackhawks

Blackhawks skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Tyler Bertuzzi #59	L	1	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	20:20
Connor Bedard #98	C	1	0	1	0	6	0	1	0	22.2	24:22
Oliver Moore #11	C	1	0	1	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	12:40
Frank Nazar #91	C	0	1	1	0	3	1	0	2	50.0	22:06
Ryan Greene #20	C	0	1	1	0	3	0	2	0	78.6	20:57
Andre Burakovsky #28	L	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	21:32
Colton Dach #34	C	0	0	0	-1	0	5	1	0	0.0	14:11
Jason Dickinson #16	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	68.8	14:18
Ryan Donato #8	C	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	100.0	13:05
Teuvo Teravainen #86	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	14:21
Ilya Mikheyev #95	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	15:29
Alex Vlasic #72	D	0	0	0	-1	4	0	2	0	0.0	21:44
Artyom Levshunov #55	D	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0.0	20:50
Connor Murphy #5	D	0	0	0	+1	0	1	1	0	0.0	14:21
Louis Crevier #46	D	0	0	0	-1	2	2	1	0	0.0	17:26
Matt Grzelcyk #48	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	1	0	0.0	15:56
Sam Rinzel #6	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	2	0.0	09:30
Wyatt Kaiser #44	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	4	0	0.0	17:59

Blackhawks goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Spencer Knight #30	O	28	25	3	.893	23/26	1/1	64:53

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	1	2	1	2	0.0	17:53
Braeden Bowman #42	R	1	1	2	+2	3	0	1	0	0.0	15:20
Shea Theodore #27	D	0	2	2	+1	5	0	3	2	0.0	25:17
Ben Hutton #17	D	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	13:10
Mark Stone #61	R	0	1	1	-1	5	0	0	0	0.0	19:54
Brett Howden #21	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	41.7	14:28
Colton Sissons #10	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	30.0	10:37
Jack Eichel #9	C	0	0	0	+2	2	3	3	0	44.4	24:06
Tomas Hertl #48	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	0	41.7	17:25
Brandon Saad #20	L	0	0	0	-1	2	0	1	0	100.0	14:15
Cole Reinhardt #23	L	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	07:49
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	0	0	0	0	2	5	0	0	100.0	08:50
Mitch Marner #93	R	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	17:44
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	14:20
Brayden McNabb #3	D	0	0	0	0	1	4	3	0	0.0	22:12
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0.0	14:19
Noah Hanifin #15	D	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	0.0	25:27
Zach Whitecloud #2	D	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	2	0.0	21:54

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Carter Hart #79	W	30	27	3	.900	23/26	4/4	65:00

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.