Game

Golden Knights at Sharks

Golden Knights 7, Sharks 2 · first star Tomas Hertl (2 G, 3 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 7 at San Jose Sharks 2

Golden Knights VGK

7 FINAL 2

Sharks SJS

Sunday, January 11, 2026 · 8:00 PM ET · SAP Center at San Jose, San Jose · TV SN · NHLN · TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Golden Knights	2	3	2	7	32
Sharks	1	1	0	2	20

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Golden Knights attack left, Sharks 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; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: VGK 32, SJS 20.

VGK in red SJS in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Golden Knights 32 shots on goal (7 goals, 9 missed, 15 blocked) attacking left; Sharks 20 shots on goal (2 goals, 14 missed, 12 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	VGK SOG	VGK G	VGK ATT	SJS SOG	SJS G	SJS ATT
1st	13	2	25	9	1	18
2nd	10	3	16	5	1	16
3rd	9	2	15	6	0	12
Total	32	7	56	20	2	46

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	VGK SOG	VGK G	SJS SOG	SJS G
Even strength	23	5	14	2
Power play	8	2	6	0
Short-handed	1	0	0	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Golden Knights took 54.9% of the shot attempts, and 60.6% of the 66 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 Sharks 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 Sharks
Period	SJS CF%	SJS FF%
1st	41.9	44.8
2nd	50.0	46.1
3rd	44.4	45.0
Game	45.1	45.3

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

Scoring summary

1st period

07:19 Jack Eichel (15) Ivan Barbashev (20), Jeremy Lauzon (7) · wrist 1–0
09:33 Collin Graf (12) Jeff Skinner (7) · wrist 1–1
10:57 Pavel Dorofeyev (17) PP Tomas Hertl (19), Mark Stone (24) · wrist 2–1

2nd period

04:19 Jack Eichel (16) Mark Stone (25) · snap 3–1
11:00 Tomas Hertl (17) PP Mark Stone (26), Pavel Dorofeyev (15) · wrist 4–1
12:25 Zach Whitecloud (2) Tomas Hertl (20), Noah Hanifin (15) · slap 5–1
16:29 Alexander Wennberg (10) Timothy Liljegren (8), Tyler Toffoli (19) · wrist 5–2

3rd period

17:03 Shea Theodore (6) EN Tomas Hertl (21) · wrist 6–2
18:59 Tomas Hertl (18) Pavel Dorofeyev (16), Noah Hanifin (16) · slap 7–2

Three stars

Tomas Hertl VGK · C #48 · 2 G, 3 A
Jack Eichel VGK · C #9 · 2 G, 0 A
Mark Stone VGK · R #61 · 0 G, 3 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	03:09	VGK	Noah Hanifin	tripping	2	William Eklund
1st	09:54	SJS	Timothy Liljegren	tripping	2	Jack Eichel
1st	18:48	VGK	Pavel Dorofeyev	slashing	2	Collin Graf
2nd	07:11	VGK	Jeremy Lauzon	holding	2	Macklin Celebrini
2nd	09:33	SJS	Sam Dickinson	slashing	2	Jeremy Lauzon
2nd	13:05	SJS	William Eklund	cross checking	2	Zach Whitecloud
3rd	01:13	VGK	Jack Eichel	high sticking	2	Tyler Toffoli
3rd	09:11	VGK	Cole Reinhardt	hooking	2	William Eklund
3rd	09:28	SJS	Tyler Toffoli	hooking	2	Jeremy Lauzon

Boxscore

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Tomas Hertl #48	C	2	3	5	+3	3	0	0	0	73.7	15:35
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	1	2	3	+1	3	0	2	2	0.0	18:25
Mark Stone #61	R	0	3	3	+1	2	1	2	0	0.0	17:44
Jack Eichel #9	C	2	0	2	+2	7	1	0	2	42.9	17:00
Noah Hanifin #15	D	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	2	0.0	20:24
Shea Theodore #27	D	1	0	1	+3	2	0	2	0	0.0	23:05
Zach Whitecloud #2	D	1	0	1	0	2	1	2	0	0.0	19:02
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	0	1	1	+2	0	1	0	0	0.0	09:59
Jeremy Lauzon #5	D	0	1	1	+3	1	4	1	2	0.0	20:26
Colton Sissons #10	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	46.2	15:49
Cole Reinhardt #23	L	0	0	0	+1	0	1	0	2	0.0	09:53
Alexander Holtz #26	R	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	0.0	11:36
Braeden Bowman #42	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	10:59
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	0	0	0	+1	0	5	0	0	0.0	12:51
Mitch Marner #93	R	0	0	0	-1	3	0	0	0	40.0	21:40
Reilly Smith #19	R	0	0	0	+1	3	0	0	0	0.0	17:03
Ben Hutton #17	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	13:06
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0.0	15:26

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Carl Lindbom #30	W	20	18	2	.900	12/14	6/6	59:57

San Jose Sharks

Sharks skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Alexander Wennberg #21	C	1	0	1	-1	1	0	0	0	50.0	21:06
Collin Graf #51	R	1	0	1	+1	2	1	0	0	0.0	13:13
Tyler Toffoli #73	C	0	1	1	-1	1	1	0	2	50.0	17:19
Jeff Skinner #53	L	0	1	1	+1	3	1	0	0	0.0	12:15
Timothy Liljegren #37	D	0	1	1	-1	1	0	1	2	0.0	18:55
Barclay Goodrow #23	C	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	0.0	10:56
Macklin Celebrini #71	C	0	0	0	-4	1	0	1	0	52.6	23:53
Michael Misa #77	C	0	0	0	+1	0	0	1	0	44.4	11:43
Zack Ostapchuk #63	C	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	33.3	11:34
Igor Chernyshov #92	L	0	0	0	-3	1	0	0	0	0.0	16:37
Pavol Regenda #84	L	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	0.0	12:33
William Eklund #72	L	0	0	0	-4	3	1	1	2	0.0	22:41
Adam Gaudette #81	R	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	66.7	09:56
Dmitry Orlov #9	D	0	0	0	-2	0	1	2	0	0.0	21:52
John Klingberg #3	D	0	0	0	-2	1	2	1	0	0.0	21:48
Mario Ferraro #38	D	0	0	0	+1	0	1	2	0	0.0	14:15
Sam Dickinson #6	D	0	0	0	-2	1	1	2	2	0.0	16:47
Vincent Iorio #22	D	0	0	0	+1	1	1	2	0	0.0	17:18

Sharks goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Yaroslav Askarov #30	L	31	25	6	.806	18/22	6/8	58:49

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.