Game

Golden Knights at Bruins

Bruins 4, Golden Knights 3 · first star David Pastrnak (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.

Vegas Golden Knights 3 at Boston Bruins 4

Golden Knights VGK

3 FINAL 4

Bruins BOS

Thursday, January 22, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · TD Garden, Boston · TV SN

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Golden Knights	0	0	3	3	33
Bruins	3	1	0	4	29

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Golden Knights attack left, Bruins 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 33, BOS 29.

VGK in red BOS in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Golden Knights 33 shots on goal (3 goals, 13 missed, 22 blocked) attacking left; Bruins 29 shots on goal (4 goals, 13 missed, 16 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	VGK SOG	VGK G	VGK ATT	BOS SOG	BOS G	BOS ATT
1st	4	0	11	16	3	27
2nd	8	0	19	8	1	14
3rd	21	3	38	5	0	17
Total	33	3	68	29	4	58

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	VGK SOG	VGK G	BOS SOG	BOS G
Even strength	23	2	26	2
Power play	10	1	3	2
Short-handed	0	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Golden Knights took 54.0% of the shot attempts, and 47.2% of the 89 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 Bruins 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 Bruins
Period	BOS CF%	BOS FF%
1st	71.0	75.0
2nd	42.4	50.0
3rd	30.9	25.0
Game	46.0	47.7

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

Scoring summary

1st period

09:12 Charlie McAvoy (4) PP David Pastrnak (41), Morgan Geekie (18) · slap 0–1
09:42 Elias Lindholm (9) PP David Pastrnak (42), Morgan Geekie (19) · snap 0–2
10:06 Tanner Jeannot (5) Sean Kuraly (11) · wrist 0–3

2nd period

07:25 David Pastrnak (21) Nikita Zadorov (16), Elias Lindholm (26) · wrist 0–4

3rd period

00:31 Jack Eichel (18) Noah Hanifin (18), Kaedan Korczak (9) · wrist 1–4
03:01 Tomas Hertl (21) PP Mark Stone (31), Jack Eichel (41) · snap 2–4
17:25 Pavel Dorofeyev (21) Shea Theodore (19), Mitch Marner (40) · snap 3–4

Three stars

David Pastrnak BOS · R #88 · 1 G, 2 A
Joonas Korpisalo BOS · G #70 · 0 GA, .909 SV%
Charlie McAvoy BOS · D #73 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	03:22	BOS	Pavel Zacha	high sticking	2	Mark Stone
1st	09:01	VGK	Tomas Hertl	high sticking double minor	4	Alex Steeves
1st	17:26	VGK	Jeremy Lauzon	fighting (major)	5	Mark Kastelic
1st	17:26	BOS	Mark Kastelic	fighting (major)	5	Jeremy Lauzon
1st	20:00	BOS	Morgan Geekie	roughing	2	Cole Reinhardt
1st	20:00	VGK	Cole Reinhardt	unsportsmanlike conduct	2	Morgan Geekie
2nd	15:36	BOS	Nikita Zadorov	hooking	2	Mitch Marner
3rd	01:38	BOS	Marat Khusnutdinov	roughing	2	Jeremy Lauzon
3rd	03:46	BOS	Jonathan Aspirot	interference	2	Keegan Kolesar
3rd	06:58	VGK	Dylan Coghlan	hooking	2	Alex Steeves

Boxscore

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Jack Eichel #9	C	1	1	2	+2	4	1	0	0	85.7	22:38
Tomas Hertl #48	C	1	0	1	0	9	3	2	4	57.7	19:58
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	1	0	1	+1	4	0	1	0	0.0	20:04
Mark Stone #61	R	0	1	1	+1	0	0	1	0	0.0	20:50
Mitch Marner #93	R	0	1	1	+1	2	0	1	0	25.0	21:51
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	1	1	+1	3	3	0	0	0.0	16:53
Noah Hanifin #15	D	0	1	1	+1	2	1	1	0	0.0	23:14
Shea Theodore #27	D	0	1	1	0	1	0	4	0	0.0	25:48
Tanner Laczynski #28	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	46.2	13:19
Cole Reinhardt #23	L	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	100.0	09:36
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	0	0	0	+1	2	3	0	0	0.0	15:25
Alexander Holtz #26	R	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	0.0	10:17
Braeden Bowman #42	R	0	0	0	-2	0	1	1	0	0.0	13:37
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	0.0	10:55
Reilly Smith #19	R	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	12:37
Ben Hutton #17	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	10:51
Dylan Coghlan #52	D	0	0	0	-1	1	4	1	2	0.0	13:57
Jeremy Lauzon #5	D	0	0	0	-1	0	4	0	5	0.0	16:10

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Akira Schmid #40	L	29	25	4	.862	24/26	1/3	57:19

Boston Bruins

Bruins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
David Pastrnak #88	R	1	2	3	0	6	1	0	0	0.0	17:32
Elias Lindholm #28	C	1	1	2	-1	3	0	1	0	43.5	19:44
Morgan Geekie #39	C	0	2	2	0	1	4	0	2	50.0	15:31
Tanner Jeannot #84	L	1	0	1	+1	1	2	0	0	0.0	08:42
Charlie McAvoy #73	D	1	0	1	-1	4	2	3	0	0.0	27:02
Sean Kuraly #52	C	0	1	1	+1	0	1	3	0	66.7	12:28
Nikita Zadorov #91	D	0	1	1	0	1	1	2	2	0.0	20:36
Alex Steeves #21	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	10:29
Casey Mittelstadt #11	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	33.3	14:40
Fraser Minten #93	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	45.5	13:27
Marat Khusnutdinov #92	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	2	0.0	18:02
Mark Kastelic #47	C	0	0	0	+1	0	3	0	5	50.0	09:38
Pavel Zacha #18	C	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	2	23.1	17:09
Viktor Arvidsson #71	L	0	0	0	-1	5	1	1	0	0.0	15:21
Andrew Peeke #26	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	2	0	0.0	20:27
Hampus Lindholm #27	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	2	0	0.0	19:42
Jonathan Aspirot #45	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	2	0.0	17:06
Mason Lohrei #6	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	2	0	0.0	13:01

Bruins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Joonas Korpisalo #70	W	33	30	3	.909	21/23	9/10	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.