Game

Hurricanes at Golden Knights

Hurricanes 3, Golden Knights 0 · first star Brandon Bussi (0 GA, .000 SV%).

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

Carolina Hurricanes 3 at Vegas Golden Knights 0

Hurricanes CAR

3 FINAL 0

Golden Knights VGK

Playoffs Sunday, June 14, 2026 · 8:00 PM ET · T-Mobile Arena, Paradise · TV ABC · CBC · SN

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Hurricanes	1	1	1	3	23
Golden Knights	0	0	0	0	22

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Hurricanes attack left, Golden Knights attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 4 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: CAR 23, VGK 22.

CAR in red VGK in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Hurricanes 23 shots on goal (3 goals, 13 missed, 8 blocked) attacking left; Golden Knights 22 shots on goal (0 goals, 15 missed, 13 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	CAR SOG	CAR G	CAR ATT	VGK SOG	VGK ATT
1st	8	1	19	11	17
2nd	8	1	18	3	10
3rd	7	1	7	8	23
Total	23	3	44	22	50

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	CAR SOG	CAR G	VGK SOG
Even strength	20	3	15
Power play	2	0	7
Short-handed	1	0	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0

Attempt share by period

Golden Knights took 53.2% of the shot attempts, and 44.4% of the 63 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 Hurricanes hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Hurricanes at Golden Knights
Period	VGK CF%	VGK FF%
1st	47.2	44.4
2nd	35.7	36.4
3rd	76.7	70.8
Game	53.2	50.7

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

Scoring summary

1st period

03:47 Taylor Hall (7) Jaccob Slavin (5), Jackson Blake (13) · wrist 1–0

2nd period

13:31 Jackson Blake (7) Logan Stankoven (5) · snap 2–0

3rd period

18:52 Nikolaj Ehlers (8) EN Unassisted · snap 3–0

Three stars

Brandon Bussi CAR · G #32 · 0 GA, .000 SV%
Taylor Hall CAR · L #71 · 1 G, 0 A
Jackson Blake CAR · R #53 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	10:26	CAR	Jackson Blake	tripping	2	Carter Hart
1st	10:57	VGK	Tomas Hertl	delaying game face off violation	2	—
1st	16:12	VGK	Jack Eichel	hooking	2	Taylor Hall
1st	18:38	CAR	Logan Stankoven	cross checking	2	Mitch Marner
2nd	17:04	VGK	Rasmus Andersson	interference	2	Eric Robinson
3rd	08:49	CAR	Eric Robinson	high sticking	2	Nic Dowd

Boxscore

Carolina Hurricanes

Hurricanes skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Jackson Blake #53	R	1	1	2	+2	3	0	2	2	0.0	14:32
Nikolaj Ehlers #27	L	1	0	1	+1	3	0	0	0	0.0	15:28
Taylor Hall #71	L	1	0	1	+2	2	0	0	0	0.0	14:38
Logan Stankoven #22	C	0	1	1	+2	1	5	0	2	25.0	16:15
Jaccob Slavin #74	D	0	1	1	+1	0	0	2	0	0.0	22:31
Jordan Staal #11	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	63.6	17:02
Sebastian Aho #20	C	0	0	0	+1	1	2	0	0	52.9	20:14
Eric Robinson #50	L	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	2	0.0	08:53
Jordan Martinook #48	L	0	0	0	0	3	2	1	0	0.0	16:01
Mark Jankowski #77	L	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	71.4	08:50
William Carrier #28	L	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0.0	10:26
Andrei Svechnikov #37	R	0	0	0	+1	3	6	0	0	0.0	16:26
Seth Jarvis #24	R	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	100.0	18:44
Alexander Nikishin #21	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	11:40
Jalen Chatfield #5	D	0	0	0	+1	0	1	4	0	0.0	23:37
K'Andre Miller #19	D	0	0	0	+2	0	1	1	0	0.0	22:59
Sean Walker #26	D	0	0	0	+2	0	2	0	0	0.0	23:50
Shayne Gostisbehere #4	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	11:54

Hurricanes goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Brandon Bussi #32	W	22	22	0	1.000	15/15	7/7	60:00

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Brett Howden #21	C	-2	1	2	0	0	60.0	14:52
Colton Sissons #10	C	0	1	5	1	0	27.3	13:11
Jack Eichel #9	C	-1	2	3	2	2	44.4	24:07
Nic Dowd #26	C	0	0	2	1	0	33.3	11:29
Tomas Hertl #48	C	-1	3	4	0	2	62.5	17:00
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	-2	2	3	0	0	0.0	11:48
Braeden Bowman #42	R	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	09:12
Cole Smith #22	R	0	0	2	0	0	100.0	10:43
Mark Stone #61	R	-1	2	3	0	0	0.0	23:49
Mitch Marner #93	R	-3	3	3	0	0	0.0	22:58
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	-1	6	0	0	0	0.0	17:50
Reilly Smith #19	R	0	0	3	0	0	0.0	09:21
Brayden McNabb #3	D	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	20:12
Jeremy Lauzon #5	D	0	1	7	0	0	0.0	15:27
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	13:58
Noah Hanifin #15	D	-2	0	0	2	0	0.0	16:33
Rasmus Andersson #4	D	-2	0	1	1	2	0.0	19:11
Shea Theodore #27	D	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	24:17

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Carter Hart #79	L	22	20	2	.909	17/19	2/2	58:02

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.