Game

Lightning at Kings

Lightning 5, Kings 3 · first star Brayden Point (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.

Tampa Bay Lightning 5 at Los Angeles Kings 3

Lightning TBL

5 FINAL 3

Kings LAK

Thursday, January 1, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Lightning	1	1	3	5	24
Kings	2	0	1	3	20

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Lightning attack left, Kings attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 3 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: TBL 24, LAK 20.

TBL in red LAK in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Lightning 24 shots on goal (5 goals, 14 missed, 21 blocked) attacking left; Kings 20 shots on goal (3 goals, 16 missed, 12 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	TBL SOG	TBL G	TBL ATT	LAK SOG	LAK G	LAK ATT
1st	8	1	23	11	2	16
2nd	7	1	18	1	0	16
3rd	9	3	18	8	1	16
Total	24	5	59	20	3	48

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	TBL SOG	TBL G	LAK SOG	LAK G
Even strength	20	4	17	1
Power play	3	1	3	2
Short-handed	1	0	0	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Lightning took 55.1% of the shot attempts, and 55.9% of the 93 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 Kings and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Lightning hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Lightning at Kings
Period	LAK CF%	LAK FF%
1st	41.0	50.0
2nd	47.1	43.5
3rd	47.1	52.0
Game	44.9	48.6

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

Scoring summary

1st period

03:34 Brayden Point (8) PP Jake Guentzel (22), Nikita Kucherov (34) · wrist 1–0
04:43 Jeff Malott (3) Corey Perry (10) · snap 1–1
06:14 Andrei Kuzmenko (8) PP Corey Perry (11), Kevin Fiala (13) · snap 1–2

2nd period

18:07 Brayden Point (9) Darren Raddysh (21), J.J. Moser (10) · backhand 2–2

3rd period

01:37 Kevin Fiala (14) PP Corey Perry (12), Andrei Kuzmenko (6) · wrist 2–3
16:41 Anthony Cirelli (11) Brandon Hagel (17), Nikita Kucherov (35) · backhand 3–3
18:19 Gage Goncalves (4) Jake Guentzel (23), Anthony Cirelli (13) · wrist 4–3
19:15 Nikita Kucherov (19) EN Darren Raddysh (22) · backhand 5–3

Three stars

Brayden Point TBL · C #21 · 2 G, 0 A
Corey Perry LAK · R #10 · 0 G, 3 A
Gage Goncalves TBL · C #93 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	02:52	LAK	Anze Kopitar	tripping	2	Dominic James
1st	05:43	TBL	Max Crozier	holding	2	Joel Armia
2nd	14:12	TBL	Declan Carlile	tripping	2	Kevin Fiala
3rd	00:58	TBL	Darren Raddysh	cross checking	2	Quinton Byfield
3rd	05:33	LAK	Drew Doughty	interference	2	Pontus Holmberg
3rd	20:00	LAK	Corey Perry	fighting (major)	5	Yanni Gourde
3rd	20:00	TBL	Yanni Gourde	fighting (major)	5	Corey Perry

Boxscore

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lightning skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Nikita Kucherov #86	R	1	2	3	+3	2	0	1	0	0.0	20:51
Brayden Point #21	C	2	0	2	+1	5	0	0	0	62.5	18:56
Anthony Cirelli #71	C	1	1	2	+2	4	2	0	0	61.5	17:13
Jake Guentzel #59	C	0	2	2	+1	2	0	0	0	25.0	17:44
Darren Raddysh #43	D	0	2	2	+2	0	0	1	2	0.0	24:55
Gage Goncalves #93	C	1	0	1	+2	2	1	0	0	100.0	16:50
Brandon Hagel #38	L	0	1	1	+2	3	3	0	0	0.0	18:32
J.J. Moser #90	D	0	1	1	+2	1	1	0	0	0.0	24:49
Dominic James #17	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	1	0	55.6	09:23
Yanni Gourde #37	C	0	0	0	+1	1	1	0	5	30.0	15:18
Zemgus Girgensons #28	C	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0.0	12:24
Nick Paul #20	L	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	50.0	09:58
Oliver Bjorkstrand #22	R	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	10:21
Pontus Holmberg #29	R	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0.0	11:55
Charle-Edouard D'Astous #51	D	0	0	0	+2	0	3	3	0	0.0	21:39
Declan Carlile #67	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	2	0.0	11:24
Erik Cernak #81	D	0	0	0	+2	0	5	1	0	0.0	20:13
Max Crozier #24	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	3	2	0.0	14:25

Lightning goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jonas Johansson #31	W	20	17	3	.850	16/17	1/3	60:00

Los Angeles Kings

Kings skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Corey Perry #10	R	0	3	3	0	2	0	0	5	0.0	11:29
Andrei Kuzmenko #96	L	1	1	2	-2	1	0	1	0	0.0	16:47
Kevin Fiala #22	L	1	1	2	-3	3	0	0	0	100.0	19:22
Jeff Malott #39	L	1	0	1	+1	1	3	1	0	0.0	07:47
Alex Turcotte #15	C	0	0	0	-2	0	1	2	0	68.8	15:49
Anze Kopitar #11	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	2	2	45.5	16:53
Samuel Helenius #79	C	0	0	0	+1	0	3	0	0	25.0	07:22
Warren Foegele #37	L	0	0	0	-1	2	1	0	0	0.0	15:45
Adrian Kempe #9	R	0	0	0	-2	1	3	2	0	0.0	18:37
Alex Laferriere #14	R	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	75.0	17:25
Joel Armia #40	R	0	0	0	-1	3	2	0	0	0.0	15:11
Quinton Byfield #55	R	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	27.3	19:01
Brandt Clarke #92	D	0	0	0	-1	4	0	5	0	0.0	20:20
Brian Dumoulin #2	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	3	0	0.0	16:50
Cody Ceci #5	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	15:45
Drew Doughty #8	D	0	0	0	-2	0	0	2	2	0.0	22:15
Joel Edmundson #6	D	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	0	0.0	19:19
Mikey Anderson #44	D	0	0	0	-2	0	3	2	0	0.0	21:35

Kings goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Darcy Kuemper #35	L	23	19	4	.826	16/19	2/3	59:46

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.