Game

Blue Jackets at Golden Knights

Golden Knights 5, Blue Jackets 3 · first star Mark Stone (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.

Columbus Blue Jackets 3 at Vegas Golden Knights 5

Blue Jackets CBJ

3 FINAL 5

Golden Knights VGK

Thursday, January 8, 2026 · 10:00 PM ET · T-Mobile Arena, Paradise · TV SN · SN1 · TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Blue Jackets	2	0	1	3	25
Golden Knights	1	3	1	5	26

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Blue Jackets 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: CBJ 25, VGK 26.

CBJ in red VGK in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Blue Jackets 25 shots on goal (3 goals, 19 missed, 20 blocked) attacking left; Golden Knights 26 shots on goal (5 goals, 12 missed, 13 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	CBJ SOG	CBJ G	CBJ ATT	VGK SOG	VGK G	VGK ATT
1st	8	2	23	7	1	14
2nd	6	0	18	8	3	15
3rd	11	1	23	11	1	22
Total	25	3	64	26	5	51

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	CBJ SOG	CBJ G	VGK SOG	VGK G
Even strength	23	3	20	4
Power play	2	0	6	1
Short-handed	0	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Blue Jackets took 55.6% of the shot attempts, and 55.3% of the 94 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 Blue Jackets hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Blue Jackets at Golden Knights
Period	VGK CF%	VGK FF%
1st	37.8	34.8
2nd	45.5	56.5
3rd	48.9	47.2
Game	44.4	46.3

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

Scoring summary

1st period

08:24 Boone Jenner (7) Zach Werenski (30), Sean Monahan (15) · tip-in 1–0
10:41 Kent Johnson (4) Sean Monahan (16), Boone Jenner (14) · snap 2–0
12:20 Reilly Smith (7) Ben Hutton (7), Mitch Marner (34) · tip-in 2–1

2nd period

05:19 Reilly Smith (8) Mitch Marner (35), Mark Stone (22) · wrist 2–2
13:07 Jack Eichel (13) Ivan Barbashev (19), Mark Stone (23) · wrist 2–3
18:44 Mark Stone (14) PP Tomas Hertl (17), Jack Eichel (32) · snap 2–4

3rd period

14:28 Kirill Marchenko (16) Ivan Provorov (12), Adam Fantilli (15) · wrist 3–4
16:14 Brett Howden (9) Keegan Kolesar (7), Tomas Hertl (18) · wrist 3–5

Three stars

Mark Stone VGK · R #61 · 1 G, 2 A
Reilly Smith VGK · R #19 · 2 G, 0 A
Jack Eichel VGK · C #9 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	18:04	VGK	Keegan Kolesar	high sticking	2	Adam Fantilli
2nd	18:28	CBJ	Mathieu Olivier	hooking	2	Braeden Bowman
3rd	02:39	CBJ	Brendan Gaunce	delaying game puck over glass	2	—

Boxscore

Columbus Blue Jackets

Blue Jackets skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Boone Jenner #38	C	1	1	2	0	3	3	0	0	0.0	17:57
Sean Monahan #23	C	0	2	2	+1	1	1	0	0	90.9	17:11
Kent Johnson #91	C	1	0	1	-1	3	1	2	0	0.0	16:41
Kirill Marchenko #86	R	1	0	1	+1	4	0	2	0	0.0	19:35
Adam Fantilli #19	C	0	1	1	0	0	4	0	0	58.8	18:12
Ivan Provorov #9	D	0	1	1	0	5	0	2	0	0.0	24:13
Zach Werenski #8	D	0	1	1	+1	1	0	1	0	0.0	28:00
Brendan Gaunce #16	C	0	0	0	-1	2	2	0	2	46.2	11:06
Charlie Coyle #3	C	0	0	0	-1	1	2	0	0	64.3	17:17
Cole Sillinger #4	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	100.0	13:57
Dmitri Voronkov #10	L	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0.0	16:29
Mikael Pyyhtia #82	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	09:27
Zachary Aston-Reese #27	L	0	0	0	0	0	6	1	0	0.0	10:26
Mathieu Olivier #24	R	0	0	0	-1	0	5	0	2	0.0	13:40
Damon Severson #78	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	1	0	0.0	23:21
Dante Fabbro #15	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	0.0	12:58
Denton Mateychuk #5	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	19:14
Egor Zamula #6	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	0	0.0	11:12

Blue Jackets goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jet Greaves #73	L	26	21	5	.808	16/20	5/6	56:48

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Mark Stone #61	R	1	2	3	+1	3	0	3	0	0.0	22:32
Reilly Smith #19	R	2	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	14:21
Jack Eichel #9	C	1	1	2	+1	4	0	1	0	33.3	22:40
Tomas Hertl #48	C	0	2	2	+1	5	2	1	0	50.0	16:09
Mitch Marner #93	R	0	2	2	+1	1	0	0	0	12.5	17:40
Brett Howden #21	C	1	0	1	+1	3	0	0	0	0.0	11:04
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	20:47
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	0	1	1	+1	2	1	0	2	0.0	12:02
Ben Hutton #17	D	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	16:17
Colton Sissons #10	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	44.4	10:34
Brandon Saad #20	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	13:40
Braeden Bowman #42	R	0	0	0	-1	1	2	2	0	0.0	09:24
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	11:35
Dylan Coghlan #52	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0.0	15:58
Jeremy Lauzon #5	D	0	0	0	-1	1	3	4	0	0.0	17:16
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	0	0	-1	1	2	1	0	0.0	18:22
Noah Hanifin #15	D	0	0	0	+2	0	1	0	0	0.0	24:54
Zach Whitecloud #2	D	0	0	0	+2	1	4	3	0	0.0	22:52

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Carter Hart #79	—	1	0	1	.000	0/1	0/0	08:24
Akira Schmid #40	W	24	22	2	.917	20/22	2/2	51:29

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.