Vegas Golden Knights vs. Chicago BlackhawksJan 4, 2026

Final / OTSunday, Jan 4, 2026· United Center

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Goals	1	2	3	OT	T		Shots	1	2	3	OT	T
VGK	1	1	0	0	2		VGK	8	5	2	0	15
CHI	1	0	1	1	3		CHI	4	8	7	1	20

: VGK 41CHI 58
: VGK 2.64CHI 2.33
PP goals: VGK 0CHI 0
Hits: VGK 34CHI 15
Blocks: VGK 19CHI 8
PIM: VGK 4CHI 2
: VGK 54%CHI 46%

Fantasy takeaways

Generated from the play-by-play, shifts and season context. No opinions, just what changed.

Chicago Blackhawks edge Vegas Golden Knights 3–2 (OT)

Chicago Blackhawks beat Vegas Golden Knights 3–2 in overtime at home. Tyler Bertuzzi (CHI) led the scoring with 3G 0A. New look for VGK: Stone–Barbashev–Eichel skated 12:16 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (44.4% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

Points
Tyler Bertuzzi had a hat trick (3 points) on 5 shots in 19:01.Bertuzzi
Points
Andre Burakovsky had 2 assists (2 points) on 1 shot in 18:27.Burakovsky
New line
New look for VGK: Stone–Barbashev–Eichel skated 12:16 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (44.4% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Stone Barbashev Eichel
New line
New look for VGK: Hertl–Marner–Dorofeyev skated 11:34 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (57.1% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Hertl Marner Dorofeyev
New line
New look for VGK: Saad–Howden–Holtz skated 9:44 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (18.8% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Saad Howden Holtz
New line
New look for VGK: Sissons–Kolesar–Reinhardt skated 8:18 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (50% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Sissons Kolesar Reinhardt
Usage
Artyom Levshunov (CHI) played 23:39, +4:08 up on his 19:31 season average over 67 games.Levshunov
Usage
Ben Hutton (VGK) played 20:20, +5:51 up on his 14:29 season average over 54 games.Hutton

Shot map

Both teams on one rink, filtered by strength and period.

Shot map

Every attempt, sized by expected goals. Goals are rings, shots on goal dots, misses hollow, blocks crosses.

Strength

Period

Team

← VGK attacks left (bottom on phones)CHI attacks right (top on phones) →

CHI
VGK
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 99 of 99 attempts · CHI 58 · VGK 41

Game flow

Cumulative expected goals and shot attempts, with power plays shaded and goals marked.

Cumulative shot attempts

CHI
VGK
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

CHI pressure
VGK pressure
Goal
Control (|PI| > 0.25)

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: VGK 33% of the game, CHI 35%.

Shift chart

Every shift, grouped by line and pair; bars are coloured by strength state. Click a player to highlight.

Shifts

CHI

VGK

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Head-to-head matchups

CHI skaters (rows) against VGK skaters (columns) at 5v5. Square size is time together; colour is xGF% from the CHI side.

Matchup matrix

CHI xGF% 4060square size = TOI together · blank = under 1:00

Sequence card

5-on-5 possession-chain numbers from the sequence engine (Draw Equity and control cover all situations).

Sequence card
Stat	VGK	CHI
	43	58
	2.77	1.70
	2.64	1.66
	14	11
	6	4
	22	23
	+0.042	−0.042
	33%	35%

Definitions: sequence xG, transition attempts, Draw Equity, control and the Pressure Index.

Lines used

Detected from who actually shared the ice, with time together. Percentages are the unit's share of shot attempts.

Vegas Golden Knights

L1Stone – Barbashev – Eichel
12:1644% CF
L2Hertl – Marner – Dorofeyev
11:3457% CF
L3Saad – Howden – Holtz
9:4419% CF
L4Sissons – Kolesar – Reinhardt
8:1850% CF
D1Hutton – Hanifin
18:0445% CF
D2Lauzon – Korczak
15:5161% CF
D3Megna – Whitecloud
14:1327% CF

PP1Stone – Hertl – Eichel – Marner – Dorofeyev
1:32100% CF
PP2Sissons – Barbashev – Marner – Howden – Holtz
0:10
PK1FSissons – Marner
1:58
PK2FStone – Eichel
1:13
PK1DHanifin – Whitecloud
1:09
PK2DMegna – Korczak
0:48

Current VGK line combinations →

Chicago Blackhawks

L1Dickinson – Donato – Mikheyev
11:2143% CF
L2Burakovsky – Bertuzzi – Greene
11:1453% CF
L3Foligno – Slaggert – Dach
10:0570% CF
L4Teravainen – Lardis – Moore
7:5567% CF
D1Vlasic – Crevier
17:2042% CF
D2Kaiser – Levshunov
15:4470% CF
D3Murphy – Grzelcyk
12:3047% CF

PP1Teravainen – Burakovsky – Bertuzzi – Donato – Levshunov
2:49100% CF
PP2Foligno – Grzelcyk – Greene – Lardis – Moore
1:07100% CF
PK1FDickinson – Mikheyev
1:32
PK2FTeravainen – Slaggert
0:25
PK1DMurphy – Vlasic
1:32
PK2DCrevier – Kaiser
0:25

Current CHI line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

Box score

Skaters grouped by the line they played on; CF% is the 5v5 share of shot attempts while on the ice.

Vegas Golden Knights

VGK skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Jack Eichel C	L1	0	1	1	-2	1	0.62	1	0	0	21:40	—	—	47	68
Mark Stone R	L1	1	0	1	-1	2	0.23	1	2	0	19:56	—	—	52	76
Ivan Barbashev L	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.34	2	0	0	16:32	—	—	46	63
Mitch Marner R	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.06	1	0	0	19:35	—	—	50	49
Pavel Dorofeyev R	L2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.14	1	0	0	17:15	—	—	50	27
Tomas Hertl C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.34	0	0	0	16:14	—	—	56	36
Brett Howden C	L3	0	1	1	+1	0	0.03	3	0	0	13:29	—	—	22	62
Brandon Saad L	L3	1	0	1	+1	1	0.22	0	0	0	12:14	—	—	28	68
Alexander Holtz R	L3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.03	2	2	0	11:21	—	—	21	60
Colton Sissons C	L4	0	0	0	0	3	0.42	2	0	0	13:17	—	—	47	73
Keegan Kolesar R	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.06	6	0	0	10:35	—	—	53	82
Cole Reinhardt L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.09	5	0	0	9:51	—	—	47	78
Noah Hanifin D	D1	0	1	1	-1	0	0.00	0	2	0	23:37	—	—	49	77
Ben Hutton D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	0	5	0	20:20	—	—	42	74
Kaedan Korczak D	D2	0	0	0	+1	2	0.02	0	1	0	20:40	—	—	58	88
Jeremy Lauzon D	D2	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	7	4	2	18:21	—	—	53	86
Zach Whitecloud D	D3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	1	3	0	19:16	—	—	23	25
Jaycob Megna D	D3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	2	0	2	15:41	—	—	27	26

VGK goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Akira Schmid(start)	O	20	17	3	.850	2.33	61:18

Chicago Blackhawks

CHI skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Ryan Donato C	L1	0	0	0	-2	1	0.03	1	0	0	18:06	—	—	44	33
Ilya Mikheyev R	L1	0	1	1	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	17:33	—	—	40	21
Jason Dickinson C	L1	0	0	0	-1	0	0.21	1	1	0	17:06	—	—	50	35
Tyler Bertuzzi L	L2	3	0	3	+3	5	0.96	0	1	0	19:01	—	—	64	59
Andre Burakovsky L	L2	0	2	2	+2	1	0.13	1	0	0	18:27	—	—	56	48
Ryan Greene C	L2	0	1	1	+2	3	0.32	0	1	2	14:44	—	—	57	44
Nick Foligno L	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	4	0	0	16:09	—	—	63	39
Landon Slaggert L	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	1	0	0	13:28	—	—	63	27
Colton Dach C	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.15	3	1	0	11:23	—	—	67	38
Teuvo Teravainen C	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.08	0	1	0	13:54	—	—	58	29
Oliver Moore C	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.03	0	0	0	13:04	—	—	59	30
Nick Lardis L	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.03	2	0	0	11:33	—	—	67	37
Alex Vlasic D	D1	0	1	1	0	0	0.01	0	1	0	21:13	—	—	48	24
Louis Crevier D	D1	0	0	0	-1	0	0.01	1	1	0	19:41	—	—	41	19
Artyom Levshunov D	D2	0	1	1	+1	3	0.26	0	0	0	23:39	—	—	69	55
Wyatt Kaiser D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.07	0	0	0	18:44	—	—	72	60
Matt Grzelcyk D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	0	0	0	18:09	—	—	50	42
Connor Murphy D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.02	1	1	0	16:09	—	—	57	58

CHI goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Arvid Soderblom(start)	W	15	13	2	.867	2.64	61:09

Goal anatomy

Animated replays from NHL EDGE tracking, with the entry, passes and shot speed for each goal.

Brandon Saad (VGK) 1st 10:40 · assists Brett Howden, Alexander Holtz · Rush · carried in · 10.0 mph shot · 5.0 s from entry to goal.

Brandon Saad · 1st 10:40 · VGK

Play: rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 1
Shot: 10.0 mph
Distance: 10 ft
Entry to goal: 5.0 s

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Tyler Bertuzzi · 1st 12:38 · CHI

Play: turnover-forecheck
Entry: carry
Odd man: 3-on-2
Passes: 2
Shot: 72.3 mph
Distance: 31 ft
Entry to goal: 7.8 s

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Mark Stone · 2nd 0:43 · VGK

Play: rush
Entry: loose
Odd man: No
Passes: 0
Shot: 43.3 mph
Distance: 18 ft
Entry to goal: 4.8 s

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Tyler Bertuzzi · 3rd 11:36 · CHI

Play: rebound
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 0
Shot: 22.9 mph
Distance: 2 ft
Entry to goal: 7.4 s
Type: rebound

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Tyler Bertuzzi · OT 1:18 · CHI

Play: cycle
Passes: 1 (royal road)
Shot: 6.6 mph
Distance: 1 ft

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Methodology

Shot locations come from the NHL play-by-play, normalised so each shooter attacks the same way, then flipped so the home team attacks right. On-ice stats and lines come from the shift charts: a unit is the exact set of skaters sharing the ice, and CF% is the share of all shot attempts while they were out. Head-to-head cells are 5v5 time against each opponent. Expected goals and the Pressure Index appear as their models are released.

Vegas Golden Knights vs. Chicago BlackhawksJan 4, 2026

Fantasy takeaways

Chicago Blackhawks edge Vegas Golden Knights 3–2 (OT)

Shot map

Shot map

Game flow

Cumulative shot attempts

Shift chart

Shifts

Head-to-head matchups

Matchup matrix

Sequence card

Lines used

Vegas Golden Knights

Chicago Blackhawks

Scoring summary

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

OT period

Box score

Vegas Golden Knights

Chicago Blackhawks

Goal anatomy

Brandon Saad · 1st 10:40 · VGK

Tyler Bertuzzi · 1st 12:38 · CHI

Mark Stone · 2nd 0:43 · VGK

Tyler Bertuzzi · 3rd 11:36 · CHI

Tyler Bertuzzi · OT 1:18 · CHI