Game

Golden Knights at Blues

Blues 4, Golden Knights 3 · first star Alexey Toropchenko (1 G, 1 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 St. Louis Blues 4

Golden Knights VGK

3 FINAL 4

Blues STL

Friday, January 2, 2026 · 3:00 PM ET · Enterprise Center, St. Louis · TV SNW · SN1 · TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Golden Knights	1	1	1	3	25
Blues	1	2	1	4	19

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Golden Knights attack left, Blues 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 25, STL 19.

VGK in red STL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Golden Knights 25 shots on goal (3 goals, 11 missed, 11 blocked) attacking left; Blues 19 shots on goal (4 goals, 14 missed, 14 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	VGK SOG	VGK G	VGK ATT	STL SOG	STL G	STL ATT
1st	6	1	15	4	1	15
2nd	14	1	22	7	2	14
3rd	5	1	10	8	1	18
Total	25	3	47	19	4	47

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	VGK SOG	VGK G	STL SOG	STL G
Even strength	22	3	18	4
Power play	2	0	1	0
Short-handed	1	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Blues took 50.0% of the shot attempts, and 51.3% 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 Blues 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 Blues
Period	STL CF%	STL FF%
1st	50.0	40.9
2nd	38.9	46.1
3rd	64.3	57.1
Game	50.0	47.8

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

Scoring summary

1st period

10:12 Keegan Kolesar (1) Colton Sissons (3), Kaedan Korczak (7) · wrist 1–0
10:39 Alexey Toropchenko (2) Mathieu Joseph (7), Oskar Sundqvist (10) · wrist 1–1

2nd period

05:39 Justin Faulk (11) Pavel Buchnevich (15), Tyler Tucker (6) · wrist 1–2
06:37 Oskar Sundqvist (2) Alexey Toropchenko (2), Mathieu Joseph (8) · snap 1–3
09:10 Mark Stone (11) Brett Howden (5) · wrist 2–3

3rd period

08:21 Pavel Dorofeyev (16) Braeden Bowman (9) · wrist 3–3
18:27 Brayden Schenn (9) Jimmy Snuggerud (7), Pavel Buchnevich (16) · deflected 3–4

Three stars

Alexey Toropchenko STL · R #13 · 1 G, 1 A
Oskar Sundqvist STL · C #70 · 1 G, 1 A
Brayden Schenn STL · C #10 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	01:35	STL	Jordan Kyrou	holding	2	Jack Eichel
1st	03:44	VGK	Noah Hanifin	ps slash on breakaway	0	Jordan Kyrou
1st	07:09	STL	Justin Faulk	delaying game puck over glass	2	—
1st	15:11	VGK	Ben Hutton	tripping	2	Jonatan Berggren
1st	19:38	VGK	Mitch Marner	tripping	2	Jake Neighbours

Boxscore

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	1	0	1	+1	1	4	0	0	0.0	12:00
Mark Stone #61	R	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	17:55
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	17:12
Brett Howden #21	C	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	50.0	14:01
Colton Sissons #10	C	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	50.0	13:39
Braeden Bowman #42	R	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	14:27
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	1	1	+1	3	2	1	0	0.0	20:33
Jack Eichel #9	C	0	0	0	-2	3	2	2	0	46.2	19:34
Tomas Hertl #48	C	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	38.5	17:06
Brandon Saad #20	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	13:23
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	15:08
Mitch Marner #93	R	0	0	0	0	3	0	3	2	60.0	19:01
Reilly Smith #19	R	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	12:23
Ben Hutton #17	D	0	0	0	-2	1	0	0	2	0.0	11:56
Jaycob Megna #88	D	0	0	0	-2	0	1	0	0	0.0	10:43
Jeremy Lauzon #5	D	0	0	0	+2	1	5	2	0	0.0	19:37
Noah Hanifin #15	D	0	0	0	-1	2	2	1	0	0.0	26:17
Zach Whitecloud #2	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0.0	22:29

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Carter Hart #79	L	19	15	4	.789	14/18	1/1	58:36

St. Louis Blues

Blues skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Oskar Sundqvist #70	C	1	1	2	+2	1	1	1	0	62.5	11:24
Alexey Toropchenko #13	R	1	1	2	+2	2	1	0	0	0.0	13:28
Pavel Buchnevich #89	L	0	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	15:04
Mathieu Joseph #71	R	0	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	11:31
Brayden Schenn #10	C	1	0	1	-1	1	1	1	0	58.3	16:44
Justin Faulk #72	D	1	0	1	-2	1	1	1	2	0.0	21:00
Jimmy Snuggerud #21	R	0	1	1	0	2	2	0	0	0.0	15:13
Tyler Tucker #75	D	0	1	1	-1	2	2	0	0	0.0	17:07
Otto Stenberg #28	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	100.0	14:16
Robert Thomas #18	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	66.7	20:05
Jake Neighbours #63	L	0	0	0	-1	3	1	0	0	0.0	17:23
Dalibor Dvorsky #54	R	0	0	0	0	1	4	1	0	36.4	14:02
Jonatan Berggren #29	R	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0.0	14:38
Jordan Kyrou #25	R	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	2	0.0	15:11
Cam Fowler #17	D	0	0	0	+1	0	1	0	0	0.0	17:17
Colton Parayko #55	D	0	0	0	+2	1	0	2	0	0.0	22:37
Matthew Kessel #51	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	13:37
Philip Broberg #6	D	0	0	0	+2	2	0	1	0	0.0	25:23

Blues goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Joel Hofer #30	W	25	22	3	.880	19/22	2/2	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.