Game

Predators at Golden Knights

Predators 4, Golden Knights 2 · first star Steven Stamkos (1 G, 0 A).

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

Nashville Predators 4 at Vegas Golden Knights 2

Predators NSH

4 FINAL 2

Golden Knights VGK

Wednesday, December 31, 2025 · 3:00 PM ET · T-Mobile Arena, Paradise · TV SN · TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Predators	3	1	0	4	19
Golden Knights	2	0	0	2	31

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Predators 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: NSH 19, VGK 31.

NSH in red VGK in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Predators 19 shots on goal (4 goals, 16 missed, 13 blocked) attacking left; Golden Knights 31 shots on goal (2 goals, 17 missed, 21 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	NSH SOG	NSH G	NSH ATT	VGK SOG	VGK G	VGK ATT
1st	10	3	19	9	2	15
2nd	6	1	16	4	0	15
3rd	3	0	13	18	0	39
Total	19	4	48	31	2	69

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	NSH SOG	NSH G	VGK SOG	VGK G
Even strength	13	2	23	1
Power play	6	2	7	1
Short-handed	0	0	1	0

Attempt share by period

Golden Knights took 59.0% of the shot attempts, and 56.4% of the 78 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 Predators hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Predators at Golden Knights
Period	VGK CF%	VGK FF%
1st	44.1	48.1
2nd	48.4	35.0
3rd	75.0	77.8
Game	59.0	57.8

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

Scoring summary

1st period

05:35 Mark Stone (10) PP Pavel Dorofeyev (12), Noah Hanifin (12) · tip-in 0–1
09:06 Ben Hutton (6) Tomas Hertl (15), Pavel Dorofeyev (13) · tip-in 0–2
11:20 Nick Perbix (3) Luke Evangelista (22) · wrist 1–2
15:37 Steven Stamkos (18) PP Filip Forsberg (15), Luke Evangelista (23) · wrist 2–2
16:21 Reid Schaefer (4) Brady Skjei (12), Michael McCarron (6) · snap 3–2

2nd period

11:52 Michael Bunting (10) PP Nick Blankenburg (13), Erik Haula (16) · tip-in 4–2

Three stars

Steven Stamkos NSH · C #91 · 1 G, 0 A
Justus Annunen NSH · G #29 · 0 GA, .935 SV%
Reid Schaefer NSH · L #49 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	05:24	NSH	Erik Haula	high sticking	2	Ben Hutton
1st	14:16	VGK	Brett Howden	hooking	2	Fedor Svechkov
2nd	01:39	NSH	Nicolas Hague	cross checking	2	Ivan Barbashev
2nd	03:35	VGK	Alexander Holtz	slashing	2	Roman Josi
2nd	08:18	VGK	Keegan Kolesar	cross checking	2	Michael Bunting
2nd	08:18	VGK	Keegan Kolesar	roughing	2	Michael Bunting
2nd	08:18	VGK	Keegan Kolesar	misconduct (misconduct)	10	—
3rd	07:31	VGK	Ben Hutton	ps slash on breakaway	0	Cole Smith
3rd	13:33	NSH	Michael McCarron	interference	2	Colton Sissons

Boxscore

Nashville Predators

Predators skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Luke Evangelista #77	R	0	2	2	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	17:19
Steven Stamkos #91	C	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	75.0	19:32
Michael Bunting #58	L	1	0	1	+1	2	1	0	0	0.0	14:21
Reid Schaefer #49	L	1	0	1	+1	2	3	1	0	0.0	10:33
Nick Perbix #48	D	1	0	1	0	2	1	5	0	0.0	19:45
Michael McCarron #47	C	0	1	1	+1	1	6	0	2	53.3	12:44
Erik Haula #56	L	0	1	1	+1	1	2	0	2	55.6	18:16
Filip Forsberg #9	L	0	1	1	0	2	2	0	0	0.0	19:56
Brady Skjei #76	D	0	1	1	+1	0	0	2	0	0.0	24:08
Nick Blankenburg #37	D	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	18:17
Fedor Svechkov #40	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	40.0	08:24
Ryan O'Reilly #90	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	50.0	23:13
Tyson Jost #17	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	0.0	09:03
Cole Smith #36	R	0	0	0	+1	0	8	1	0	0.0	15:51
Matthew Wood #71	R	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	09:22
Adam Wilsby #83	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	1	0	0.0	17:00
Nicolas Hague #41	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0.0	17:34
Roman Josi #59	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	4	0	0.0	20:31

Predators goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Justus Annunen #29	W	31	29	2	.935	22/23	6/7	60:00

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	0	2	2	+1	3	0	0	0	0.0	18:36
Mark Stone #61	R	1	0	1	-1	2	2	0	0	0.0	21:33
Ben Hutton #17	D	1	0	1	0	3	1	2	0	0.0	16:19
Tomas Hertl #48	C	0	1	1	+1	2	4	0	0	50.0	19:03
Noah Hanifin #15	D	0	1	1	0	5	1	0	0	0.0	29:59
Brett Howden #21	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	2	22.2	14:16
Colton Sissons #10	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	58.8	12:21
Brandon Saad #20	L	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	0.0	14:46
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	0.0	16:05
Alexander Holtz #26	R	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	2	0.0	09:45
Braeden Bowman #42	R	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	12:36
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	0	0	0	0	1	4	1	14	100.0	07:30
Mitch Marner #93	R	0	0	0	-1	3	0	0	0	25.0	23:39
Reilly Smith #19	R	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	100.0	14:34
Brayden McNabb #3	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	10:24
Jeremy Lauzon #5	D	0	0	0	-1	1	5	3	0	0.0	17:02
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0.0	20:13
Zach Whitecloud #2	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	0	0.0	19:32

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Akira Schmid #40	L	19	15	4	.789	11/13	4/6	54:52

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.