Game

Wild at Golden Knights

Wild 5, Golden Knights 2 · first star Marcus Johansson (1 G, 3 A).

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

Minnesota Wild 5 at Vegas Golden Knights 2

Wild MIN

5 FINAL 2

Golden Knights VGK

Monday, December 29, 2025 · 10:00 PM ET · T-Mobile Arena, Paradise

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Wild	2	3	0	5	27
Golden Knights	0	1	1	2	16

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Wild 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. Boxscore shots on goal: MIN 27, VGK 16.

MIN in red VGK in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Wild 27 shots on goal (5 goals, 17 missed, 14 blocked) attacking left; Golden Knights 16 shots on goal (2 goals, 14 missed, 21 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	MIN SOG	MIN G	MIN ATT	VGK SOG	VGK G	VGK ATT
1st	7	2	17	6	0	19
2nd	13	3	29	5	1	19
3rd	7	0	12	5	1	13
Total	27	5	58	16	2	51

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	MIN SOG	MIN G	VGK SOG	VGK G
Even strength	22	5	13	2
Power play	4	0	2	0
Short-handed	1	0	1	0

Attempt share by period

Wild took 53.2% of the shot attempts, and 51.6% of the 91 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 Wild hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Wild at Golden Knights
Period	VGK CF%	VGK FF%
1st	52.8	40.0
2nd	39.6	37.8
3rd	52.0	47.1
Game	46.8	40.5

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

Scoring summary

1st period

00:26 Marcus Johansson (12) Jonas Brodin (8), Jared Spurgeon (8) · snap 1–0
14:06 Matt Boldy (25) Joel Eriksson Ek (19), Marcus Johansson (18) · wrist 2–0

2nd period

00:26 Jared Spurgeon (3) Marcus Johansson (19), Jonas Brodin (9) · snap 3–0
04:32 Brock Faber (8) Yakov Trenin (10), Kirill Kaprizov (24) · wrist 4–0
06:56 Joel Eriksson Ek (10) Matt Boldy (22), Marcus Johansson (20) · tip-in 5–0
16:50 Brayden McNabb (2) Ivan Barbashev (17), Pavel Dorofeyev (11) · wrist 5–1

3rd period

02:14 Mark Stone (9) Ivan Barbashev (18), Mitch Marner (31) · wrist 5–2

Three stars

Marcus Johansson MIN · L #90 · 1 G, 3 A
Joel Eriksson Ek MIN · C #14 · 1 G, 1 A
Jared Spurgeon MIN · D #46 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	02:13	VGK	Tomas Hertl	boarding (major)	5	Ryan Hartman
1st	02:13	VGK	Tomas Hertl	game misconduct	10	—
1st	09:39	MIN	Nico Sturm	high sticking	2	Mark Stone
1st	16:40	MIN	Jake Middleton	hooking	2	Pavel Dorofeyev
2nd	00:26	VGK	Bench	delaying game unsuccessful challenge	2	—

Boxscore

Minnesota Wild

Wild skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Marcus Johansson #90	L	1	3	4	+4	3	0	0	0	0.0	13:46
Joel Eriksson Ek #14	C	1	1	2	+4	2	1	0	0	75.0	16:18
Matt Boldy #12	L	1	1	2	+4	2	0	0	0	100.0	16:14
Jared Spurgeon #46	D	1	1	2	+2	1	0	6	0	0.0	19:35
Jonas Brodin #25	D	0	2	2	+3	1	0	4	0	0.0	17:24
Brock Faber #7	D	1	0	1	+1	1	0	2	0	0.0	21:33
Yakov Trenin #13	C	0	1	1	0	1	8	0	0	0.0	14:24
Kirill Kaprizov #97	L	0	1	1	+1	3	0	0	0	0.0	19:41
Nico Sturm #78	C	0	0	0	-1	1	3	1	2	50.0	12:26
Vinnie Hinostroza #18	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	100.0	11:24
Marcus Foligno #17	L	0	0	0	-1	1	2	1	0	100.0	14:05
Danila Yurov #22	R	0	0	0	+1	0	1	2	0	33.3	16:11
Mats Zuccarello #36	R	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0.0	18:34
Ryan Hartman #38	R	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	33.3	13:01
Vladimir Tarasenko #91	R	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	14:47
Jake Middleton #5	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0.0	17:30
Quinn Hughes #43	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	23:01
Zach Bogosian #24	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	16:29

Wild goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Filip Gustavsson #32	W	16	14	2	.875	11/13	2/2	59:37

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	0	2	2	+2	1	2	1	0	66.7	18:02
Mark Stone #61	R	1	0	1	+2	3	1	1	0	0.0	20:15
Brayden McNabb #3	D	1	0	1	+1	4	0	5	0	0.0	23:45
Mitch Marner #93	R	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	63.6	21:22
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	0	1	1	-1	3	2	1	0	0.0	15:53
Brett Howden #21	C	0	0	0	-4	0	4	0	0	28.6	17:07
Colton Sissons #10	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	55.6	13:34
Tomas Hertl #48	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	0.0	00:55
Brandon Saad #20	L	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	0.0	15:03
Alexander Holtz #26	R	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	13:21
Braeden Bowman #42	R	0	0	0	-4	1	0	0	0	0.0	11:50
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0.0	13:58
Reilly Smith #19	R	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0.0	15:03
Ben Hutton #17	D	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0.0	14:46
Jeremy Lauzon #5	D	0	0	0	-2	0	7	1	0	0.0	17:06
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0.0	17:46
Noah Hanifin #15	D	0	0	0	-2	0	1	1	0	0.0	22:08
Zach Whitecloud #2	D	0	0	0	-1	0	3	1	0	0.0	21:11

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Carter Hart #79	L	12	7	5	.583	2/7	4/4	26:51
Akira Schmid #40	—	15	15	0	1.000	15/15	0/0	33:04

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.