Game

Golden Knights at Canucks

Golden Knights 2, Canucks 1 · first star Cole Smith (1 G, 0 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 2 at Vancouver Canucks 1

Golden Knights VGK

2 FINAL 1

Canucks VAN

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 · 10:00 PM ET · Rogers Arena, Vancouver · TV TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Golden Knights	0	1	1	2	29
Canucks	0	1	0	1	11

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Golden Knights attack left, Canucks 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 29, VAN 11.

VGK in red VAN in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Golden Knights 29 shots on goal (2 goals, 18 missed, 17 blocked) attacking left; Canucks 11 shots on goal (1 goal, 12 missed, 20 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	VGK SOG	VGK G	VGK ATT	VAN SOG	VAN G	VAN ATT
1st	11	0	26	2	0	11
2nd	12	1	23	5	1	18
3rd	6	1	15	4	0	14
Total	29	2	64	11	1	43

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	VGK SOG	VGK G	VAN SOG	VAN G
Even strength	27	2	8	1
Power play	1	0	3	0
Short-handed	1	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Golden Knights took 59.8% of the shot attempts, and 64.5% of the 93 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 Canucks 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 Canucks
Period	VAN CF%	VAN FF%
1st	29.7	20.8
2nd	43.9	34.6
3rd	48.3	45.0
Game	40.2	32.9

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

Scoring summary

2nd period

12:50 Max Sasson (13) Teddy Blueger (8), Linus Karlsson (19) · snap 0–1
15:46 Brayden McNabb (5) Shea Theodore (29), Brandon Saad (6) · snap 1–1

3rd period

12:13 Cole Smith (8) Nic Dowd (15) · snap 2–1

Three stars

Cole Smith VGK · R #22 · 1 G, 0 A
Nikita Tolopilo VAN · G #60 · 0 GA, .931 SV%
Brayden McNabb VGK · D #3 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	09:27	VAN	Curtis Douglas	cross checking	2	Cole Smith
2nd	05:49	VGK	Colton Sissons	high sticking	2	Zeev Buium
3rd	18:19	VGK	Rasmus Andersson	interference	2	Marco Rossi

Boxscore

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Cole Smith #22	R	1	0	1	0	1	4	0	0	0.0	09:30
Brayden McNabb #3	D	1	0	1	+2	1	1	3	0	0.0	21:23
Nic Dowd #26	C	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	58.3	12:55
Brandon Saad #20	L	0	1	1	+1	3	1	0	0	0.0	13:25
Shea Theodore #27	D	0	1	1	+2	1	0	1	0	0.0	20:37
Brett Howden #21	C	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	66.7	17:17
Colton Sissons #10	C	0	0	0	0	2	4	1	2	0.0	13:22
Jack Eichel #9	C	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	61.1	17:58
Tomas Hertl #48	C	0	0	0	+1	0	1	3	0	60.0	13:16
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	15:28
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	0	0	0	+1	1	3	0	0	100.0	12:07
Mark Stone #61	R	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	17:10
Mitch Marner #93	R	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	33.3	18:46
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	17:05
Ben Hutton #17	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	3	0	0.0	13:53
Jeremy Lauzon #5	D	0	0	0	-1	2	1	2	0	0.0	17:35
Noah Hanifin #15	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0.0	22:27
Rasmus Andersson #4	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	2	0.0	22:22

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Carter Hart #79	W	11	10	1	.909	7/8	3/3	59:43

Vancouver Canucks

Canucks skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Max Sasson #63	C	1	0	1	+1	1	1	1	0	100.0	10:57
Linus Karlsson #94	C	0	1	1	+1	1	0	0	0	100.0	11:56
Teddy Blueger #53	C	0	1	1	+1	0	1	1	0	0.0	14:38
Aatu Räty #54	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	45.0	11:52
Curtis Douglas #42	C	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	2	100.0	09:48
Elias Pettersson #40	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	33.3	20:54
Marco Rossi #93	C	0	0	0	-1	2	3	0	0	37.5	18:02
Drew O'Connor #18	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	17:59
Jake DeBrusk #74	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	0	0.0	18:28
Liam Ohgren #92	L	0	0	0	-1	0	1	2	0	0.0	16:20
Nils Hoglander #21	L	0	0	0	-1	0	3	1	0	0.0	12:16
Brock Boeser #6	R	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	0	100.0	19:59
Elias Pettersson #25	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	1	0	0.0	16:09
Filip Hronek #17	D	0	0	0	0	2	6	0	0	0.0	26:53
Marcus Pettersson #29	D	0	0	0	-2	0	1	3	0	0.0	19:00
Tom Willander #5	D	0	0	0	+1	0	1	3	0	0.0	21:09
Victor Mancini #90	D	0	0	0	-2	1	0	0	0	0.0	12:03
Zeev Buium #24	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	21:18

Canucks goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Nikita Tolopilo #60	L	29	27	2	.931	25/27	1/1	58:19

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.