Game

Wild at Golden Knights

Wild 4, Golden Knights 2 · first star Filip Gustavsson (0 GA, .935 SV%).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Minnesota Wild 4 at Vegas Golden Knights 2

Wild MIN

4 FINAL 2

Golden Knights VGK

Friday, March 6, 2026 · 10:00 PM ET · T-Mobile Arena, Paradise · TV SNE

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Wild	0	3	1	4	24
Golden Knights	0	0	2	2	31

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Wild attack left, Golden Knights 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: MIN 24, VGK 31.

MIN in red VGK in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Wild 24 shots on goal (4 goals, 17 missed, 18 blocked) attacking left; Golden Knights 31 shots on goal (2 goals, 19 missed, 12 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	MIN SOG	MIN G	MIN ATT	VGK SOG	VGK G	VGK ATT
1st	6	0	27	8	0	13
2nd	7	3	13	10	0	23
3rd	11	1	19	13	2	26
Total	24	4	59	31	2	62

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	MIN SOG	MIN G	VGK SOG	VGK G
Even strength	22	4	30	1
Power play	2	0	1	1
Short-handed	0	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Golden Knights took 51.2% of the shot attempts, and 54.3% of the 105 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 Wild hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Wild at Golden Knights
Period	VGK CF%	VGK FF%
1st	32.5	42.3
2nd	63.9	62.1
3rd	57.8	58.3
Game	51.2	55.0

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

Scoring summary

2nd period

05:18 Mats Zuccarello (12) Unassisted · wrist 1–0
08:07 Zach Bogosian (2) Danila Yurov (15), Yakov Trenin (13) · slap 2–0
08:25 Michael McCarron (6) Brock Faber (27), Quinn Hughes (56) · tip-in 3–0

3rd period

02:17 Pavel Dorofeyev (30) PP Jack Eichel (49), Braeden Bowman (16) · wrist 3–1
15:42 Vladimir Tarasenko (16) Jared Spurgeon (12), Michael McCarron (8) · wrist 4–1
16:55 Mitch Marner (18) Pavel Dorofeyev (21), Tomas Hertl (30) · wrist 4–2

Three stars

Filip Gustavsson MIN · G #32 · 0 GA, .935 SV%
Pavel Dorofeyev VGK · R #16 · 1 G, 1 A
Michael McCarron MIN · C #47 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	14:58	VGK	Braeden Bowman	holding	2	Matt Boldy
2nd	03:00	MIN	Jake Middleton	fighting (major)	5	Keegan Kolesar
2nd	03:00	VGK	Keegan Kolesar	fighting (major)	5	Jake Middleton
2nd	10:15	VGK	Jeremy Lauzon	boarding	2	Bobby Brink
2nd	10:15	MIN	Brock Faber	instigator	2	Jeremy Lauzon
2nd	10:15	VGK	Jeremy Lauzon	fighting (major)	5	Brock Faber
2nd	10:15	MIN	Brock Faber	fighting (major)	5	Jeremy Lauzon
2nd	10:15	MIN	Brock Faber	instigator misconduct (misconduct)	10	—
3rd	01:22	MIN	Zach Bogosian	slashing	2	Pavel Dorofeyev
3rd	09:57	VGK	Jeremy Lauzon	roughing	2	Michael McCarron
3rd	09:57	MIN	Michael McCarron	roughing	2	Jeremy Lauzon

Boxscore

Minnesota Wild

Wild skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Michael McCarron #47	C	1	1	2	+1	1	3	0	2	20.0	10:41
Mats Zuccarello #36	R	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	17:52
Vladimir Tarasenko #91	R	1	0	1	+2	2	1	0	0	0.0	12:58
Zach Bogosian #24	D	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	0.0	16:37
Yakov Trenin #13	C	0	1	1	+2	0	7	2	0	0.0	11:53
Danila Yurov #22	R	0	1	1	+1	1	2	1	0	16.7	10:59
Brock Faber #7	D	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	17	0.0	16:41
Jared Spurgeon #46	D	0	1	1	+3	1	1	1	0	0.0	21:37
Quinn Hughes #43	D	0	1	1	+1	0	0	1	0	0.0	27:46
Joel Eriksson Ek #14	C	0	0	0	0	4	3	0	0	33.3	19:37
Nico Sturm #78	C	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	40.0	10:59
Robby Fabbri #21	C	0	0	0	+1	3	1	0	0	0.0	10:39
Kirill Kaprizov #97	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	22:46
Matt Boldy #12	L	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	0.0	20:21
Bobby Brink #10	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	13:28
Ryan Hartman #38	R	0	0	0	+1	4	0	1	0	36.8	16:40
Jake Middleton #5	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	5	0.0	16:08
Jonas Brodin #25	D	0	0	0	+2	0	0	2	0	0.0	19:23

Wild goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Filip Gustavsson #32	W	31	29	2	.935	29/30	0/1	60:00

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	1	1	2	-1	3	0	0	0	0.0	18:01
Mitch Marner #93	R	1	0	1	-1	2	0	2	0	75.0	15:55
Jack Eichel #9	C	0	1	1	-1	5	0	1	0	53.3	24:30
Tomas Hertl #48	C	0	1	1	-1	1	0	1	0	76.9	14:27
Braeden Bowman #42	R	0	1	1	-1	2	1	0	2	0.0	19:50
Colton Sissons #10	C	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	100.0	14:39
Nic Dowd #62	C	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	70.6	13:17
Brandon Saad #20	L	0	0	0	-1	2	0	1	0	0.0	08:39
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	0	0	0	-1	2	3	0	0	100.0	19:30
Cole Smith #22	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	13:41
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	5	0.0	08:09
Reilly Smith #19	R	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	11:31
Brayden McNabb #3	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	3	0	0.0	20:54
Jeremy Lauzon #5	D	0	0	0	-1	0	3	1	9	0.0	14:37
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	12:08
Noah Hanifin #15	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	4	0	0.0	22:57
Rasmus Andersson #4	D	0	0	0	-2	0	1	3	0	0.0	20:58
Shea Theodore #27	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	0.0	23:52

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Akira Schmid #40	L	24	20	4	.833	18/22	2/2	58:25

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.