Game

Avalanche at Golden Knights

Avalanche 6, Golden Knights 5 in a shootout · first star Nathan MacKinnon (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 6 at Vegas Golden Knights 5

Avalanche COL

6 FINAL/SO 5

Golden Knights VGK

Saturday, December 27, 2025 · 10:00 PM ET · T-Mobile Arena, Paradise

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	1OT	SO	T	SOG
Avalanche	0	2	3	0	1	6	39
Golden Knights	1	3	1	0	0	5	25

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 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: COL 39, VGK 25.

COL in red VGK in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Avalanche 39 shots on goal (5 goals, 32 missed, 29 blocked) attacking left; Golden Knights 25 shots on goal (5 goals, 13 missed, 8 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	9	0	24	7	1	12
2nd	11	2	29	12	3	20
3rd	16	3	38	6	1	14
OT	3	0	9	0	0	0
Total	39	5	100	25	5	46

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	37	5	19	5
Power play	0	0	6	0
Short-handed	2	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Avalanche took 68.5% of the shot attempts, and 70.0% of the 120 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	33.3	36.0
2nd	40.8	43.2
3rd	26.9	31.7
OT	0.0	0.0
Game	31.5	34.9

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

Scoring summary

1st period

02:43 Alexander Holtz (1) Noah Hanifin (10), Tomas Hertl (14) · tip-in 0–1

2nd period

00:34 Ivan Barbashev (12) Mitch Marner (30) · wrist 0–2
05:19 Samuel Girard (3) Sam Malinski (16), Valeri Nichushkin (14) · wrist 1–2
10:27 Martin Necas (17) Sam Malinski (17), Samuel Girard (7) · wrist 2–2
11:36 Ben Hutton (5) Alexander Holtz (1), Noah Hanifin (11) · slap 2–3
12:05 Brett Howden (7) Reilly Smith (5), Jeremy Lauzon (5) · tip-in 2–4

3rd period

03:52 Martin Necas (18) Nathan MacKinnon (32) · wrist 3–4
08:21 Nathan MacKinnon (31) Sam Malinski (18), Gabriel Landeskog (13) · wrist 4–4
16:00 Colton Sissons (3) Keegan Kolesar (6), Kaedan Korczak (6) · backhand 4–5
18:03 Artturi Lehkonen (14) Nathan MacKinnon (33), Brock Nelson (12) · snap 5–5

Shootout

00:00 Nathan MacKinnon Unassisted · wrist 6–5

Three stars

Nathan MacKinnon COL · C #29 · 1 G, 2 A
Martin Necas COL · C #88 · 2 G, 0 A
Noah Hanifin VGK · D #15 · 0 G, 2 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	11:30	COL	Cale Makar	delaying game puck over glass	2	—
1st	14:58	VGK	Zach Whitecloud	hooking	2	Brock Nelson
3rd	05:52	COL	Bench	too many men on the ice	2	—
3rd	10:36	COL	Josh Manson	interference	2	Tomas Hertl

Boxscore

Colorado Avalanche

Avalanche skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Nathan MacKinnon #29	C	1	2	3	+2	9	1	0	0	66.7	25:28
Sam Malinski #70	D	0	3	3	+3	3	0	1	0	0.0	19:11
Martin Necas #88	C	2	0	2	+3	4	1	0	0	0.0	21:09
Samuel Girard #49	D	1	1	2	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	16:41
Artturi Lehkonen #62	L	1	0	1	+1	2	0	0	0	100.0	20:36
Brock Nelson #11	C	0	1	1	0	3	0	1	0	27.8	23:52
Gabriel Landeskog #92	L	0	1	1	+2	3	1	1	0	84.6	20:04
Valeri Nichushkin #13	R	0	1	1	-1	7	0	0	0	0.0	20:03
Gavin Brindley #54	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	33.3	08:14
Jack Drury #18	C	0	0	0	-2	1	1	1	0	54.5	11:38
Parker Kelly #17	C	0	0	0	-2	0	1	0	0	0.0	09:01
Ross Colton #20	C	0	0	0	+1	2	2	0	0	50.0	09:51
Joel Kiviranta #94	L	0	0	0	-2	0	1	0	0	0.0	05:34
Victor Olofsson #95	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	11:40
Brent Burns #84	D	0	0	0	-3	0	1	0	0	0.0	17:53
Cale Makar #8	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0.0	24:39
Devon Toews #7	D	0	0	0	-1	3	0	1	0	0.0	25:39
Josh Manson #42	D	0	0	0	-1	0	4	1	2	0.0	18:37

Avalanche goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Scott Wedgewood #41	W	25	20	5	.800	14/19	6/6	64:10

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Alexander Holtz #26	R	1	1	2	+1	2	0	2	0	0.0	18:55
Noah Hanifin #15	D	0	2	2	+2	3	0	2	0	0.0	26:01
Brett Howden #21	C	1	0	1	-1	2	1	1	0	41.2	16:29
Colton Sissons #10	C	1	0	1	0	2	1	3	0	58.3	11:37
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	1	0	1	0	3	4	0	0	0.0	16:11
Ben Hutton #17	D	1	0	1	+2	2	0	3	0	0.0	20:51
Tomas Hertl #48	C	0	1	1	+1	1	2	0	0	63.2	20:21
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	0	1	1	0	1	3	3	0	0.0	10:50
Mitch Marner #93	R	0	1	1	-1	1	0	2	0	27.3	20:44
Reilly Smith #19	R	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	12:38
Jeremy Lauzon #5	D	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	0	0.0	14:13
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	1	1	-2	0	2	1	0	0.0	23:13
Brandon Saad #20	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	11:14
Braeden Bowman #42	R	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0.0	12:43
Mark Stone #61	R	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	21:31
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	20:21
Brayden McNabb #3	D	0	0	0	-2	0	3	6	0	0.0	21:21
Zach Whitecloud #2	D	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	2	0.0	13:47

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Carter Hart #79	O	39	34	5	.872	32/37	0/0	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.