Game

Penguins at Golden Knights

Golden Knights 6, Penguins 2 · first star Pavel Dorofeyev (2 G, 1 A).

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

Pittsburgh Penguins 2 at Vegas Golden Knights 6

Penguins PIT

2 FINAL 6

Golden Knights VGK

Thursday, March 12, 2026 · 10:00 PM ET · T-Mobile Arena, Paradise · TV SNE · TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Penguins	0	2	0	2	26
Golden Knights	1	2	3	6	17

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Penguins attack left, Golden Knights attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 5 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: PIT 26, VGK 17.

PIT in red VGK in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Penguins 26 shots on goal (2 goals, 16 missed, 22 blocked) attacking left; Golden Knights 17 shots on goal (6 goals, 14 missed, 14 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	PIT SOG	PIT G	PIT ATT	VGK SOG	VGK G	VGK ATT
1st	6	0	16	6	1	20
2nd	9	2	22	5	2	11
3rd	11	0	26	6	3	14
Total	26	2	64	17	6	45

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	PIT SOG	PIT G	VGK SOG	VGK G
Even strength	22	2	16	6
Power play	4	0	1	0
Short-handed	0	0	0	0
Into an empty net	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Penguins took 58.7% of the shot attempts, and 60.8% of the 79 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 Penguins hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Penguins at Golden Knights
Period	VGK CF%	VGK FF%
1st	55.6	60.0
2nd	33.3	31.6
3rd	35.0	34.5
Game	41.3	42.5

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

Scoring summary

1st period

08:41 Colton Sissons (5) Braeden Bowman (17) · wrist 0–1

2nd period

05:02 Pavel Dorofeyev (31) Kaedan Korczak (11), Braeden Bowman (18) · wrist 0–2
08:26 Rickard Rakell (13) Bryan Rust (27), Ryan Shea (22) · tip-in 1–2
09:20 Mitch Marner (19) Pavel Dorofeyev (22) · wrist 1–3
16:22 Ben Kindel (16) Anthony Mantha (25), Ryan Shea (23) · tip-in 2–3

3rd period

04:35 Pavel Dorofeyev (32) Mitch Marner (48) · snap 2–4
06:20 Jack Eichel (24) Ivan Barbashev (28), Shea Theodore (24) · wrist 2–5
19:01 Brayden McNabb (3) EN Jack Eichel (50) · wrist 2–6

Three stars

Pavel Dorofeyev VGK · R #16 · 2 G, 1 A
Mitch Marner VGK · R #93 · 1 G, 1 A
Adin Hill VGK · G #33 · 0 GA, .923 SV%

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	16:11	PIT	Connor Clifton	interference	2	Tomas Hertl
1st	19:28	PIT	Tommy Novak	tripping	2	Nic Dowd
2nd	02:15	VGK	Rasmus Andersson	interference	2	Ville Koivunen
2nd	11:47	VGK	Mitch Marner	tripping	2	Tommy Novak
2nd	19:09	VGK	Brett Howden	slashing	2	Kris Letang
2nd	19:09	PIT	Kris Letang	cross checking	2	Brett Howden
3rd	12:21	PIT	Anthony Mantha	slashing	2	Kaedan Korczak
3rd	12:21	PIT	Anthony Mantha	roughing	2	Pavel Dorofeyev
3rd	12:21	VGK	Pavel Dorofeyev	slashing	2	Anthony Mantha
3rd	12:21	VGK	Pavel Dorofeyev	roughing	2	Anthony Mantha
3rd	12:21	VGK	Kaedan Korczak	unsportsmanlike conduct	2	Anthony Mantha

Boxscore

Pittsburgh Penguins

Penguins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Ryan Shea #5	D	0	2	2	+1	1	0	2	0	0.0	19:16
Ben Kindel #81	C	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	33.3	13:52
Rickard Rakell #67	R	1	0	1	+1	3	1	0	0	26.7	20:48
Anthony Mantha #39	R	0	1	1	-2	1	1	0	4	0.0	18:08
Bryan Rust #17	R	0	1	1	+1	0	1	1	0	0.0	22:04
Blake Lizotte #46	C	0	0	0	-3	0	1	2	0	33.3	10:21
Connor Dewar #19	C	0	0	0	-3	0	1	0	0	100.0	10:45
Noel Acciari #55	C	0	0	0	-2	1	1	0	0	25.0	14:03
Tommy Novak #18	C	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	2	42.9	16:43
Elmer Soderblom #25	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	13:08
Avery Hayes #85	R	0	0	0	-1	5	0	1	0	0.0	09:31
Egor Chinakhov #59	R	0	0	0	+1	4	1	0	0	0.0	20:32
Ville Koivunen #41	R	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	0.0	14:47
Connor Clifton #75	D	0	0	0	-2	0	1	0	2	0.0	15:06
Erik Karlsson #65	D	0	0	0	-3	4	0	1	0	0.0	26:26
Ilya Solovyov #7	D	0	0	0	-2	1	1	1	0	0.0	12:55
Kris Letang #58	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	2	0.0	23:51
Parker Wotherspoon #28	D	0	0	0	-2	0	1	1	0	0.0	18:42

Penguins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Arturs Silovs #37	L	16	11	5	.688	10/15	1/1	53:02

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	2	1	3	+3	3	0	0	4	0.0	15:32
Jack Eichel #9	C	1	1	2	+2	2	0	1	0	80.0	19:51
Mitch Marner #93	R	1	1	2	+2	3	0	0	2	100.0	17:47
Braeden Bowman #42	R	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	11:32
Colton Sissons #10	C	1	0	1	0	1	2	3	0	72.7	12:57
Brayden McNabb #3	D	1	0	1	+2	4	4	2	0	0.0	23:39
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	0	1	1	+2	1	3	1	0	0.0	13:47
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	1	1	+1	0	1	0	2	0.0	12:51
Shea Theodore #27	D	0	1	1	+2	0	0	1	0	0.0	20:14
Brett Howden #21	C	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	2	60.0	15:59
Nic Dowd #62	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	46.7	12:44
Tomas Hertl #48	C	0	0	0	+3	1	1	2	0	76.9	17:07
Cole Smith #22	R	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	0.0	12:35
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	100.0	11:11
Mark Stone #61	R	0	0	0	+2	0	1	2	0	0.0	17:52
Jeremy Lauzon #5	D	0	0	0	+1	0	2	2	0	0.0	16:41
Noah Hanifin #15	D	0	0	0	+1	0	1	2	0	0.0	20:43
Rasmus Andersson #4	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	1	2	0.0	18:58

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Adin Hill #33	W	26	24	2	.923	20/22	4/4	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.