Vegas Golden Knights vs. New York IslandersDec 9, 2025

Final / SOTuesday, Dec 9, 2025· UBS Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	OT	SO	T		Shots	1	2	3	OT	T
VGK	2	0	2	0	0	4		VGK	12	9	11	5	37
NYI	1	2	1	0	1	5		NYI	13	6	8	0	27

: VGK 62NYI 53
: VGK 3.65NYI 2.47
PP goals: VGK 0NYI 1
Hits: VGK 14NYI 24
Blocks: VGK 12NYI 10
PIM: VGK 8NYI 10
: VGK 48%NYI 52%

Fantasy takeaways

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

New York Islanders edge Vegas Golden Knights 5–4 (SO)

New York Islanders beat Vegas Golden Knights 5–4 in a shootout at home. Bo Horvat (NYI) led the scoring with 2G 0A. NYI's first power-play unit (Duclair, Horvat, Barzal, Schaefer and Shabanov) scored 1 power-play goal on 6 attempts in 2:27 together.

Points
Bo Horvat had two goals (2 points) on 5 shots in 22:19.Horvat
Points
Mitch Marner had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 5 shots in 20:49.Marner
Points
Jack Eichel had 2 assists (2 points) on 4 shots in 24:30.Eichel
Points
Mark Stone had 2 assists (2 points) on 3 shots in 22:32.Stone
PP1
NYI's first power-play unit (Duclair, Horvat, Barzal, Schaefer and Shabanov) scored 1 power-play goal on 6 attempts in 2:27 together.Duclair Horvat Barzal Schaefer Shabanov
New line
New look for VGK: Smith–Hertl–Dorofeyev skated 12:51 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (52.9% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Smith Hertl Dorofeyev
Usage
Ryan Pulock (NYI) played 29:12, +8:30 up on his 20:42 season average over 75 games.Pulock
New line
New look for NYI: Lee–Pageau–Barzal skated 11:43 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (58.6% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Lee Pageau Barzal

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)NYI attacks right (top on phones) →

NYI
VGK
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 115 of 115 attempts · NYI 53 · VGK 62

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

NYI
VGK
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

NYI 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 36% of the game, NYI 31%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

NYI

VGK

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Head-to-head matchups

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

Matchup matrix

NYI 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	NYI
	49	50
	2.43	2.21
	2.38	2.14
	6	7
	2	2
	18	28
	−0.016	+0.016
	36%	31%

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

L1Smith – Hertl – Dorofeyev
12:5153% CF
L2Barbashev – Eichel – Bowman
10:1855% CF
L3Stone – Marner – Howden
9:5550% CF
L4Sissons – Kolesar – Reinhardt
5:0250% CF
D1McNabb – Theodore
14:2356% CF
D2Hanifin – Whitecloud
11:5650% CF
D3Hutton – Korczak
9:5365% CF

PP1Stone – Hertl – Eichel – Marner – Dorofeyev
1:59100% CF
PK1FSmith – Sissons
1:17
PK2FStone – Howden
0:55
PK1DMcNabb – Theodore
2:45
PK2DHanifin – Whitecloud
0:42

Current VGK line combinations →

New York Islanders

L1Horvat – Heineman – Shabanov
12:4071% CF
L2Lee – Pageau – Barzal
11:4359% CF
L3Duclair – Holmstrom – Ritchie
8:1029% CF
L4Cizikas – MacLean – Gatcomb
7:4940% CF
D1Pulock – Schaefer
16:5546% CF
D2Pelech – DeAngelo
12:4152% CF
D3Mayfield – Mitchell
9:4731% CF

PP1Duclair – Horvat – Barzal – Schaefer – Shabanov
2:27100% CF
PP2Lee – Holmstrom – Heineman – Ritchie – Schaefer
0:59100% CF
PK1FPageau – Horvat
0:48
PK2FCizikas – Holmstrom
0:15
PK1DPelech – Pulock
0:38
PK2DMayfield – Schaefer
0:10

Current NYI line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

Decided in the shootout: VGK 4 – 5 NYI.

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
Pavel Dorofeyev R	L1	1	0	1	+1	5	0.64	3	1	2	21:05	—	—	56	64
Tomas Hertl C	L1	0	0	0	+1	4	0.55	1	0	0	19:11	—	—	48	52
Reilly Smith R	L1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	16:43	—	—	47	44
Jack Eichel C	L2	0	2	2	+1	4	0.29	1	0	0	24:30	—	—	52	40
Ivan Barbashev L	L2	1	0	1	+1	2	0.16	0	0	0	16:17	—	—	48	48
Braeden Bowman R	L2	0	1	1	+1	2	0.13	0	1	0	12:53	—	—	45	36
Mark Stone R	L3	0	2	2	+2	3	0.37	0	2	0	22:32	—	—	48	69
Mitch Marner R	L3	1	1	2	+1	5	0.49	0	1	2	20:49	—	—	52	62
Brett Howden C	L3	0	0	0	0	3	0.40	2	0	2	17:21	—	—	50	62
Colton Sissons C	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	0	0	9:32	—	—	33	1
Keegan Kolesar R	L4	0	0	0	-1	2	0.16	1	0	0	7:08	—	—	62	68
Cole Reinhardt L	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	2	0	0	6:29	—	—	50	4
Shea Theodore D	D1	0	1	1	+2	1	0.03	0	2	0	24:28	—	—	53	45
Brayden McNabb D	D1	0	0	0	0	2	0.06	1	1	2	19:12	—	—	48	33
Noah Hanifin D	D2	1	0	1	0	3	0.29	0	2	0	21:53	—	—	40	45
Zach Whitecloud D	D2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	2	1	0	18:28	—	—	48	61
Kaedan Korczak D	D3	0	1	1	0	1	0.02	1	1	0	17:20	—	—	50	64
Ben Hutton D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.05	0	0	0	14:58	—	—	58	73

VGK goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Carter Hart(start)	O	27	23	4	.852	2.47	63:48

New York Islanders

NYI skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Bo Horvat C	L1	2	0	2	-2	5	0.69	1	0	2	22:19	—	—	67	70
Max Shabanov R	L1	0	1	1	-1	1	0.18	0	0	0	20:00	—	—	62	64
Emil Heineman L	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	2	0	0	16:24	—	—	67	68
Mathew Barzal C	L2	0	1	1	+1	2	0.32	0	0	0	19:47	—	—	54	36
Jean-Gabriel Pageau C	L2	0	0	0	-2	1	0.06	1	0	0	18:58	—	—	49	29
Anders Lee L	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	0	0	0	14:41	—	—	55	34
Simon Holmstrom R	L3	1	0	1	+1	1	0.06	0	0	0	15:42	—	—	28	23
Anthony Duclair L	L3	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	0	1	2	12:45	—	—	26	27
Calum Ritchie C	L3	0	1	1	+1	0	0.08	0	1	0	10:46	—	—	35	28
Casey Cizikas C	L4	0	1	1	0	0	0.00	3	2	0	11:14	—	—	40	57
Kyle MacLean C	L4	0	1	1	0	0	0.00	4	0	2	10:31	—	—	43	55
Marc Gatcomb C	L4	1	0	1	0	1	0.40	9	0	0	9:47	—	—	50	62
Ryan Pulock D	D1	0	1	1	-1	1	0.08	0	1	0	29:12	—	—	52	57
Matthew Schaefer D	D1	0	1	1	-1	4	0.33	0	0	0	28:14	—	—	56	55
Adam Pelech D	D2	0	0	0	-2	3	0.06	1	3	2	23:30	—	—	54	44
Tony DeAngelo D	D2	0	0	0	-1	4	0.05	0	1	0	16:40	—	—	57	37
Scott Mayfield D	D3	0	0	0	+1	2	0.14	0	1	0	16:18	—	—	42	49
Travis Mitchell D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	3	0	0	10:20	—	—	31	47

NYI goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Ilya Sorokin(start)	W	37	33	4	.892	3.65	65:00

Goal anatomy

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

Noah Hanifin (VGK) 1st 12:02 · assists Jack Eichel, Shea Theodore · Rebound · 48.4 mph shot.

Noah Hanifin · 1st 12:02 · VGK

Play: rebound
Passes: 0
Shot: 48.4 mph
Distance: 18 ft
Type: rebound

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Mitch Marner · 1st 16:01 · VGK

Play: rebound
Passes: 0
Shot: 39.6 mph
Distance: 10 ft
Type: rebound

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Bo Horvat · 1st 19:33 · NYI

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 1
Shot: 80.4 mph
Distance: 34 ft
Type: one-timer

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Marc Gatcomb · 2nd 3:56 · NYI

Play: rebound
Passes: 2
Shot: 15.7 mph
Distance: 4 ft
Type: rebound

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Simon Holmstrom · 2nd 13:30 · NYI

Play: dump-and-chase
Entry: dump
Odd man: 2-on-1
Passes: 0
Shot: 70.1 mph
Distance: 38 ft
Entry to goal: 1.5 s

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Ivan Barbashev · 3rd 1:27 · VGK

Play: rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 0
Shot: 19.4 mph
Distance: 24 ft
Entry to goal: 3.5 s

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Bo Horvat · 3rd 10:15 · NYI PP

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 1
Shot: 76.5 mph
Distance: 33 ft
Type: one-timer

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Pavel Dorofeyev · 3rd 19:46 · VGK

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 0
Shot: 26.9 mph
Distance: 7 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. New York IslandersDec 9, 2025

Fantasy takeaways

New York Islanders edge Vegas Golden Knights 5–4 (SO)

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

New York Islanders

Scoring summary

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Box score

Vegas Golden Knights

New York Islanders

Goal anatomy

Noah Hanifin · 1st 12:02 · VGK

Mitch Marner · 1st 16:01 · VGK

Bo Horvat · 1st 19:33 · NYI

Marc Gatcomb · 2nd 3:56 · NYI

Simon Holmstrom · 2nd 13:30 · NYI

Ivan Barbashev · 3rd 1:27 · VGK

Bo Horvat · 3rd 10:15 · NYI PP

Pavel Dorofeyev · 3rd 19:46 · VGK