Game

Golden Knights at Islanders

Islanders 5, Golden Knights 4 in a shootout · first star Bo Horvat (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.

Vegas Golden Knights 4 at New York Islanders 5

Golden Knights VGK

4 FINAL/SO 5

Islanders NYI

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · UBS Arena, Elmont · TV TNT · HBO MAX · SNP

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	1OT	SO	T	SOG
Golden Knights	2	0	2	0	0	4	37
Islanders	1	2	1	0	1	5	27

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Golden Knights attack left, Islanders 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: VGK 37, NYI 27.

VGK in red NYI in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Golden Knights 37 shots on goal (4 goals, 14 missed, 11 blocked) attacking left; Islanders 27 shots on goal (4 goals, 14 missed, 12 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	VGK SOG	VGK G	VGK ATT	NYI SOG	NYI G	NYI ATT
1st	12	2	18	13	1	25
2nd	9	0	17	6	2	13
3rd	11	2	20	8	1	15
OT	5	0	7	0	0	0
Total	37	4	62	27	4	53

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	VGK SOG	VGK G	NYI SOG	NYI G
Even strength	28	4	23	3
Power play	9	0	3	1
Short-handed	0	0	1	0

Attempt share by period

Golden Knights took 53.9% of the shot attempts, and 49.4% of the 83 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 Islanders and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Golden Knights hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Golden Knights at Islanders
Period	NYI CF%	NYI FF%
1st	58.1	58.3
2nd	43.3	34.8
3rd	42.9	44.4
OT	0.0	0.0
Game	46.1	44.6

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

Scoring summary

1st period

12:02 Noah Hanifin (2) Jack Eichel (25), Shea Theodore (15) · snap 1–0
16:01 Mitch Marner (6) Kaedan Korczak (2), Mark Stone (17) · snap 2–0
19:33 Bo Horvat (18) Ryan Pulock (15), Matthew Schaefer (14) · slap 2–1

2nd period

03:56 Marc Gatcomb (1) Casey Cizikas (5), Kyle MacLean (2) · snap 2–2
13:30 Simon Holmstrom (5) Calum Ritchie (3), Anthony Duclair (6) · wrist 2–3

3rd period

01:27 Ivan Barbashev (11) Braeden Bowman (5), Jack Eichel (26) · poke 3–3
10:15 Bo Horvat (19) PP Mathew Barzal (14), Max Shabanov (7) · slap 3–4
19:46 Pavel Dorofeyev (12) Mitch Marner (23), Mark Stone (18) · wrist 4–4

Shootout

00:00 Emil Heineman Unassisted · wrist 4–5

Three stars

Bo Horvat NYI · C #14 · 2 G, 0 A
Ilya Sorokin NYI · G #30 · 0 GA, .892 SV%
Simon Holmstrom NYI · R #10 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	09:37	NYI	Bo Horvat	tripping	2	Brayden McNabb
1st	10:31	VGK	Mitch Marner	interference	2	Emil Heineman
1st	10:54	NYI	Ilya Sorokin	tripping	2	Brett Howden
1st	18:55	VGK	Brayden McNabb	roughing	2	Matthew Schaefer
1st	18:55	NYI	Anthony Duclair	roughing	2	Brayden McNabb
2nd	01:24	VGK	Brett Howden	interference goalkeeper	2	Ilya Sorokin
3rd	08:44	VGK	Pavel Dorofeyev	hooking	2	Anthony Duclair
3rd	17:39	NYI	Adam Pelech	delaying game puck over glass	2	—
3rd	19:56	NYI	Kyle MacLean	high sticking	2	Brett Howden

Boxscore

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Mitch Marner #93	R	1	1	2	+1	5	0	1	2	0.0	20:49
Jack Eichel #9	C	0	2	2	+1	4	1	0	0	41.2	24:30
Mark Stone #61	R	0	2	2	+2	3	0	2	0	0.0	22:32
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	1	0	1	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	16:17
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	1	0	1	+1	5	3	1	2	0.0	21:05
Noah Hanifin #15	D	1	0	1	0	3	0	2	0	0.0	21:53
Braeden Bowman #42	R	0	1	1	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	12:53
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	17:20
Shea Theodore #27	D	0	1	1	+2	1	0	2	0	0.0	24:28
Brett Howden #21	C	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	2	40.7	17:21
Colton Sissons #10	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	75.0	09:32
Tomas Hertl #48	C	0	0	0	+1	4	1	0	0	52.2	19:11
Cole Reinhardt #23	L	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	0.0	06:29
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	0	0	0	-1	2	1	0	0	0.0	07:08
Reilly Smith #19	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	16:43
Ben Hutton #17	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	14:58
Brayden McNabb #3	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	2	0.0	19:12
Zach Whitecloud #2	D	0	0	0	-1	0	2	1	0	0.0	18:28

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Carter Hart #79	O	27	23	4	.852	20/23	2/3	63:48

New York Islanders

Islanders skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Bo Horvat #14	C	2	0	2	-2	5	1	0	2	57.9	22:19
Marc Gatcomb #16	C	1	0	1	0	1	9	0	0	0.0	09:47
Simon Holmstrom #10	R	1	0	1	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	15:42
Calum Ritchie #64	C	0	1	1	+1	0	0	1	0	12.5	10:46
Casey Cizikas #53	C	0	1	1	0	0	3	2	0	50.0	11:14
Kyle MacLean #32	C	0	1	1	0	0	4	0	2	0.0	10:31
Mathew Barzal #13	C	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	0	37.5	19:47
Anthony Duclair #11	L	0	1	1	+1	0	0	1	2	0.0	12:45
Max Shabanov #49	R	0	1	1	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	20:00
Matthew Schaefer #48	D	0	1	1	-1	4	0	0	0	0.0	28:14
Ryan Pulock #6	D	0	1	1	-1	1	0	1	0	0.0	29:12
Jean-Gabriel Pageau #44	C	0	0	0	-2	1	1	0	0	66.7	18:58
Anders Lee #27	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	14:41
Emil Heineman #51	L	0	0	0	-1	1	2	0	0	0.0	16:24
Adam Pelech #3	D	0	0	0	-2	3	1	3	2	0.0	23:30
Scott Mayfield #24	D	0	0	0	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	16:18
Tony DeAngelo #77	D	0	0	0	-1	4	0	1	0	0.0	16:40
Travis Mitchell #38	D	0	0	0	+1	0	3	0	0	0.0	10:20

Islanders goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Ilya Sorokin #30	W	37	33	4	.892	24/28	9/9	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.