Game

Golden Knights at Oilers

Oilers 4, Golden Knights 3 · first star Connor McDavid (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.

Vegas Golden Knights 3 at Edmonton Oilers 4

Golden Knights VGK

3 FINAL 4

Oilers EDM

Sunday, December 21, 2025 · 8:00 PM ET · Rogers Place, Edmonton · TV SN · SN1

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Golden Knights	0	1	2	3	31
Oilers	2	2	0	4	21

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Golden Knights attack left, Oilers 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: VGK 31, EDM 21.

VGK in red EDM in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Golden Knights 31 shots on goal (3 goals, 15 missed, 17 blocked) attacking left; Oilers 21 shots on goal (4 goals, 16 missed, 14 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	VGK SOG	VGK G	VGK ATT	EDM SOG	EDM G	EDM ATT
1st	8	0	19	12	2	22
2nd	10	1	20	6	2	14
3rd	13	2	24	3	0	15
Total	31	3	63	21	4	51

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	VGK SOG	VGK G	EDM SOG	EDM G
Even strength	23	1	14	2
Power play	8	2	5	2
Short-handed	0	0	2	0

Attempt share by period

Golden Knights took 55.3% of the shot attempts, and 55.3% of the 76 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 Oilers 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 Oilers
Period	EDM CF%	EDM FF%
1st	53.7	55.6
2nd	41.2	42.3
3rd	38.5	28.6
Game	44.7	44.6

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

Scoring summary

1st period

09:11 Connor McDavid (23) Leon Draisaitl (34), Alec Regula (3) · snap 0–1
14:37 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (9) PP Leon Draisaitl (35), Connor McDavid (38) · tip-in 0–2

2nd period

02:22 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (10) PP Connor McDavid (39), Zach Hyman (7) · snap 0–3
07:45 Zach Hyman (9) Darnell Nurse (8), Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (20) · backhand 0–4
12:59 Tomas Hertl (14) PP Mitch Marner (29), Noah Hanifin (6) · snap 1–4

3rd period

03:52 Pavel Dorofeyev (15) PP Tomas Hertl (12), Noah Hanifin (7) · snap 2–4
05:49 Mitch Marner (7) Tomas Hertl (13), Noah Hanifin (8) · snap 3–4

Three stars

Connor McDavid EDM · C #97 · 1 G, 2 A
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins EDM · C #93 · 2 G, 1 A
Tomas Hertl VGK · C #48 · 1 G, 2 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	05:47	EDM	Andrew Mangiapane	hooking	2	Ben Hutton
1st	10:57	EDM	Leon Draisaitl	slashing	2	Tomas Hertl
1st	12:58	VGK	Ben Hutton	hooking	2	Connor McDavid
1st	17:26	EDM	Andrew Mangiapane	hooking	2	Kaedan Korczak
2nd	01:56	VGK	Jeremy Lauzon	interference	2	Max Jones
2nd	12:06	EDM	Adam Henrique	high sticking	2	Cole Reinhardt
3rd	03:31	EDM	Alec Regula	hooking	2	Reilly Smith
3rd	13:32	VGK	Brett Howden	high sticking	2	Evan Bouchard

Boxscore

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Tomas Hertl #48	C	1	2	3	+1	5	3	1	0	54.2	19:33
Noah Hanifin #15	D	0	3	3	0	4	0	4	0	0.0	26:28
Mitch Marner #93	R	1	1	2	+1	3	0	0	0	50.0	24:00
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	1	0	1	0	6	0	1	0	0.0	19:27
Brett Howden #21	C	0	0	0	-1	1	4	0	2	53.8	15:10
Colton Sissons #10	C	0	0	0	-1	0	3	1	0	53.8	11:44
Brandon Saad #20	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	13:12
Cole Reinhardt #23	L	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	0.0	07:50
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0.0	15:33
Braeden Bowman #42	R	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	12:53
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	0	0	0	-1	0	7	1	0	0.0	09:48
Mark Stone #61	R	0	0	0	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	23:39
Reilly Smith #19	R	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	14:59
Ben Hutton #17	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	0.0	16:35
Brayden McNabb #3	D	0	0	0	0	3	4	0	0	0.0	16:37
Jeremy Lauzon #5	D	0	0	0	-1	1	2	1	2	0.0	13:23
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	19:50
Zach Whitecloud #2	D	0	0	0	-1	2	2	2	0	0.0	17:31

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Carter Hart #79	L	21	17	4	.810	12/14	3/5	57:43

Edmonton Oilers

Oilers skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins #93	C	2	1	3	+1	2	1	0	0	33.3	19:49
Connor McDavid #97	C	1	2	3	+1	5	0	1	0	42.9	19:46
Zach Hyman #18	L	1	1	2	+2	4	0	1	0	0.0	16:21
Leon Draisaitl #29	C	0	2	2	0	3	0	0	2	64.3	22:17
Alec Regula #75	D	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	2	0.0	17:00
Darnell Nurse #25	D	0	1	1	0	1	1	2	0	0.0	22:38
Adam Henrique #19	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	28.6	12:02
Curtis Lazar #20	C	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	44.4	10:01
Jack Roslovic #28	C	0	0	0	-1	2	2	0	0	0.0	15:29
Matt Savoie #22	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100.0	12:29
Mattias Janmark #13	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	50.0	13:46
Andrew Mangiapane #88	L	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	4	0.0	09:17
Max Jones #46	L	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0.0	07:56
Vasily Podkolzin #92	R	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0.0	17:22
Evan Bouchard #2	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	3	0	0.0	24:58
Mattias Ekholm #14	D	0	0	0	+1	0	2	2	0	0.0	21:22
Spencer Stastney #24	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	15:55
Ty Emberson #49	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	14:18

Oilers goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Connor Ingram #39	W	31	28	3	.903	22/23	6/8	60:00

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.