Game

Golden Knights at Penguins

Penguins 5, Golden Knights 0 · first star Ben Kindel (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 0 at Pittsburgh Penguins 5

Golden Knights VGK

0 FINAL 5

Penguins PIT

Sunday, March 1, 2026 · 1:00 PM ET · PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh · TV TNT · HBO MAX · SN360

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Golden Knights	0	0	0	0	22
Penguins	1	3	1	5	22

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Golden Knights attack left, Penguins 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 22, PIT 22.

VGK in red PIT in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Golden Knights 22 shots on goal (0 goals, 13 missed, 20 blocked) attacking left; Penguins 22 shots on goal (5 goals, 8 missed, 17 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	VGK SOG	VGK ATT	PIT SOG	PIT G	PIT ATT
1st	5	14	6	1	18
2nd	7	23	11	3	20
3rd	10	18	5	1	9
Total	22	55	22	5	47

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	VGK SOG	PIT SOG	PIT G
Even strength	20	14	3
Power play	2	8	2
Short-handed	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Golden Knights took 53.9% of the shot attempts, and 58.0% of the 81 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 Penguins 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 Penguins
Period	PIT CF%	PIT FF%
1st	56.3	53.3
2nd	46.5	50.0
3rd	33.3	35.0
Game	46.1	46.1

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

Scoring summary

1st period

14:56 Ben Kindel (15) Anthony Mantha (24) · wrist 0–1

2nd period

05:47 Egor Chinakhov (13) Tommy Novak (21), Justin Brazeau (13) · wrist 0–2
09:34 Bryan Rust (20) PP Erik Karlsson (33), Evgeni Malkin (34) · wrist 0–3
15:06 Rickard Rakell (11) PP Erik Karlsson (34), Bryan Rust (23) · wrist 0–4

3rd period

14:59 Justin Brazeau (16) Ben Kindel (14), Kris Letang (24) · wrist 0–5

Three stars

Ben Kindel PIT · C #81 · 1 G, 1 A
Arturs Silovs PIT · G #37 · 0 GA, .000 SV%
Erik Karlsson PIT · D #65 · 0 G, 2 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
2nd	03:41	VGK	Mitch Marner	tripping	2	Erik Karlsson
2nd	09:02	VGK	Cole Reinhardt	unsportsmanlike conduct	2	Avery Hayes
2nd	09:02	PIT	Avery Hayes	fighting (major)	5	Cole Reinhardt
2nd	09:02	VGK	Cole Reinhardt	fighting (major)	5	Avery Hayes
2nd	11:32	PIT	Kris Letang	tripping	2	Ivan Barbashev
2nd	14:10	VGK	Bench	too many men on the ice	2	—
2nd	15:42	PIT	Blake Lizotte	tripping	2	Jack Eichel
3rd	05:17	VGK	Reilly Smith	tripping	2	Blake Lizotte

Boxscore

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Colton Sissons #10	C	0	0	2	0	0	70.0	13:05
Jack Eichel #9	C	-2	0	1	2	0	63.6	18:34
Tomas Hertl #48	C	-1	1	2	0	0	68.4	18:30
Brandon Saad #20	L	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	16:28
Cole Reinhardt #23	L	0	0	3	0	7	0.0	10:18
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	-1	0	2	0	0	0.0	15:58
Braeden Bowman #42	R	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	16:18
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	-1	0	9	1	0	0.0	13:53
Mark Stone #61	R	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	06:06
Mitch Marner #93	R	-1	2	0	0	2	70.0	18:35
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	17:34
Reilly Smith #19	R	-2	4	0	0	2	0.0	14:52
Brayden McNabb #3	D	-1	2	2	3	0	0.0	21:09
Jeremy Lauzon #5	D	-1	1	6	2	0	0.0	18:11
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	1	0	2	0	0.0	16:02
Noah Hanifin #15	D	-2	1	0	1	0	0.0	19:57
Rasmus Andersson #4	D	-2	1	1	1	0	0.0	19:07
Shea Theodore #27	D	0	2	0	2	0	0.0	19:55

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Adin Hill #33	L	22	17	5	.773	11/14	6/8	60:00

Pittsburgh Penguins

Penguins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Ben Kindel #81	C	1	1	2	+2	3	0	2	0	11.1	14:23
Bryan Rust #17	R	1	1	2	0	2	2	0	0	0.0	17:08
Justin Brazeau #16	R	1	1	2	+3	1	1	2	0	0.0	13:01
Erik Karlsson #65	D	0	2	2	+2	1	1	1	0	0.0	21:58
Egor Chinakhov #59	R	1	0	1	+1	4	0	0	0	0.0	14:50
Rickard Rakell #67	R	1	0	1	0	2	1	2	0	57.1	16:50
Evgeni Malkin #71	C	0	1	1	0	3	1	0	0	25.0	18:07
Tommy Novak #18	C	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	0	35.7	15:07
Anthony Mantha #39	R	0	1	1	+2	2	2	0	0	0.0	14:04
Kris Letang #58	D	0	1	1	+1	3	0	0	2	0.0	18:40
Blake Lizotte #46	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	42.9	14:08
Connor Dewar #19	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0.0	14:07
Noel Acciari #55	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	40.0	16:04
Avery Hayes #85	R	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	0.0	13:18
Connor Clifton #75	D	0	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0.0	19:32
Parker Wotherspoon #28	D	0	0	0	+2	0	3	2	0	0.0	18:33
Ryan Shea #5	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	4	0	0.0	18:12
Samuel Girard #49	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	17:58

Penguins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Arturs Silovs #37	W	22	22	0	1.000	20/20	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.