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Oilers at Golden Knights

Oilers 4, Golden Knights 3 in overtime · first star Evan Bouchard (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.

Edmonton Oilers 4 at Vegas Golden Knights 3

Thursday, March 26, 2026 · 9:30 PM ET · T-Mobile Arena, Paradise · TV ESPN · SN1 · TVAS

Line score by period
Team 1 2 3 OT T SOG
Oilers 1201429
Golden Knights 0210329

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Oilers 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: EDM 29, VGK 29.

Shot chart, Oilers at Golden Knights Oilers 29 shots on goal (4 goals, 13 missed, 20 blocked) attacking left; Golden Knights 29 shots on goal (3 goals, 8 missed, 14 blocked) attacking right.
EDM in red VGK in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Oilers 29 shots on goal (4 goals, 13 missed, 20 blocked) attacking left; Golden Knights 29 shots on goal (3 goals, 8 missed, 14 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period EDM SOG EDM G EDM ATT VGK SOG VGK G VGK ATT
1st81188017
2nd921810218
3rd100247110
OT212406
Total2946229351

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation EDM SOG EDM G VGK SOG VGK G
Even strength254233
Power play3060
Short-handed1000

Attempt share by period

Oilers took 54.9% of the shot attempts, and 56.7% of the 90 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 Oilers hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Oilers at Golden Knights
Period VGK CF% VGK FF%
1st48.643.5
2nd50.046.4
3rd29.440.0
OT75.075.0
Game45.146.8

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

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Scoring summary

1st period

  1. 11:52 EDM Matt Savoie (13) Connor McDavid (79), Evan Bouchard (64) · wrist 1–0

2nd period

  1. 04:09 VGK Mark Stone (22) Jack Eichel (51), Ivan Barbashev (31) · backhand 1–1
  2. 07:27 EDM Connor McDavid (41) Vasily Podkolzin (16), Mattias Ekholm (33) · wrist 2–1
  3. 14:51 VGK Mark Stone (23) Unassisted · backhand 2–2
  4. 16:42 EDM Zach Hyman (30) Unassisted · wrist 3–2

3rd period

  1. 06:21 VGK Ivan Barbashev (21) Pavel Dorofeyev (25), Shea Theodore (26) · wrist 3–3

Overtime

  1. 03:10 EDM Evan Bouchard (20) Connor McDavid (80) · snap 4–3

Three stars

  1. Evan Bouchard EDM · D #2 · 1 G, 1 A
  2. Mark Stone VGK · R #61 · 2 G, 0 A
  3. Ivan Barbashev VGK · L #49 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period Time Team Player Infraction Min Drawn by
1st03:07 VGK Rasmus Anderssonholding2Zach Hyman
1st07:59 VGK Cole Smithfighting (major)5Connor Murphy
1st07:59 EDM Connor Murphyfighting (major)5Cole Smith
1st12:56 VGK Shea Theodorehooking2Jack Roslovic
1st14:13 EDM Evan Bouchardinterference2Nic Dowd
1st20:00 EDM Jason Dickinsonboarding2Shea Theodore
1st20:00 VGK Jeremy Lauzonroughing2Jason Dickinson
1st20:00 VGK Brett Howdenroughing2Darnell Nurse
1st20:00 EDM Darnell Nurseroughing2Brett Howden
2nd08:55 EDM Zach Hymantripping2Mitch Marner
Overtime01:02 EDM Zach Hymanholding2Mark Stone

Boxscore

Edmonton Oilers

Oilers skaters · by points
Player Pos G A PTS +/- SOG HITS BLK PIM FO% TOI
Connor McDavid #97 C123+1200058.322:12
Evan Bouchard #2 D112+220020.023:31
Matt Savoie #22 C101+1400050.018:40
Zach Hyman #18 L101+122040.019:10
Vasily Podkolzin #92 R011-212100.018:33
Mattias Ekholm #14 D011-120100.018:50
Adam Henrique #19 C0000200060.010:20
Jack Roslovic #28 C0000110050.014:34
Jason Dickinson #16 C0000200263.615:48
Josh Samanski #81 C000+101100.013:28
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins #93 C0000410028.619:48
Max Jones #46 L000001000.007:41
Roby Jarventie #15 L00000000100.006:39
Kasperi Kapanen #42 R000012100.015:35
Connor Murphy #5 D000-111350.023:24
Darnell Nurse #25 D000012520.025:20
Jake Walman #96 D000+130200.017:48
Ty Emberson #49 D000012000.014:14
Oilers goalies
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% EV PP TOI
Connor Ingram #39 W29263.89720/236/663:10

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player Pos G A PTS +/- SOG HITS BLK PIM FO% TOI
Mark Stone #61 R202+140100.023:40
Ivan Barbashev #49 L112+23510100.017:16
Jack Eichel #9 C011+1402050.026:24
Pavel Dorofeyev #16 R011010000.019:10
Shea Theodore #27 D011010220.023:05
Brett Howden #21 C000-3102228.612:07
Colton Sissons #10 C000-1001040.013:31
Nic Dowd #26 C000+1111042.908:14
Tomas Hertl #48 C000-1430072.718:44
Cole Smith #22 R000001050.009:33
Keegan Kolesar #55 R000-104000.008:47
Mitch Marner #93 R0000301044.422:17
Reilly Smith #19 R000-101000.013:42
Brayden McNabb #3 D000+132200.019:46
Jeremy Lauzon #5 D000002220.015:43
Kaedan Korczak #6 D000-100100.008:21
Noah Hanifin #15 D000-132200.022:57
Rasmus Andersson #4 D000010220.025:08
Golden Knights goalies
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% EV PP TOI
Adin Hill #33 O29254.86221/253/362:20

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.