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Vegas Golden Knights vs. Tampa Bay LightningJan 18, 2018

Final· Amalie Arena
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VGK
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Goals123TShots123T
VGK2114VGK8111130
TBL0101TBL129829
VGK 62TBL 45
VGK 2.24TBL 2.95
PP goals
VGK 0TBL 1
Hits
VGK 18TBL 28
Blocks
VGK 9TBL 17
PIM
VGK 10TBL 8
VGK 42%TBL 58%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Vegas Golden Knights beat Tampa Bay Lightning 4–1

Vegas Golden Knights beat Tampa Bay Lightning 4–1 at TBL. David Perron (VGK) led the scoring with 1G 1A. TBL's first power-play unit (Stamkos, Palat, Kucherov, Point and Sergachev) scored 1 power-play goal on 6 attempts in 2:47 together.

  1. Points
    David Perron had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 1 shot in 15:26.Perron
  2. Points
    Deryk Engelland had 2 assists (2 points) in 17:58.Engelland
  3. PP1
    TBL's first power-play unit (Stamkos, Palat, Kucherov, Point and Sergachev) scored 1 power-play goal on 6 attempts in 2:47 together.StamkosPalatKucherovPointSergachev
  4. New line
    New look for VGK: Carrier–Carpenter–Bellemare skated 9:11 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (66.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.CarrierCarpenterBellemare
  5. New line
    New look for VGK: Eakin–Lindberg–Tuch skated 9:19 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (53.8% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.EakinLindbergTuch
  6. Usage
    Shea Theodore (VGK) played 15:38, −4:48 down on his 20:26 season average over 60 games.Theodore
  7. Usage
    Slater Koekkoek (TBL) played 18:31, +7:30 up on his 11:01 season average over 34 games.Koekkoek
  8. Luck
    TBL scored 1 goal on 2.95 expected goals (45 attempts), well short of its chances.

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.

Shot map, VGK at TBL: 107 attempts, 59 on goal, 5 goals, 5.19 expected goals; best chance Nikita Kucherov at 0.44 xG.

Strength
Period
Team
← VGK attacks left (bottom on phones)TBL attacks right (top on phones) →
  • TBL
  • VGK
  • Goal
  • Shot on goal
  • Missed
  • Blocked

Showing 107 of 107 attempts · TBL 45 · VGK 62

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

Game flow, VGK at TBL: expected goals 2.95 to 2.24 (TBL led the chances), shot attempts 45 to 62, 5 goals.

0.01.02.03.01st2nd3rdTBLVGKNSPPKnet xGcumulative expected goals · 60:00
  • TBL
  • VGK
  • Goal
  • Power play (shaded)
Pressure Index
TBLVGKcontrol2nd3rdNeal · 1st 0:56Schmidt · 1st 16:03Palat · 2nd 10:18Perron · 2nd 17:43Karlsson · 3rd 0:18
  • TBL 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 26% of the game, TBL 32%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

Shift chart, VGK at TBL: 38 players over 60:00; most ice Andrei Vasilevskiy (60:00) for TBL and Marc-Andre Fleury (60:00) for VGK, 5 goals.

TBL
VGK
goals / penalties
  • Even strength
  • Power play
  • Penalty kill
  • Goal
  • Penalty

Sequence card

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

Sequence card
StatVGKTBL
6643
2.452.78
2.372.75
118
87
1713
−0.045+0.045
26%32%

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

Current VGK line combinations →

Tampa Bay Lightning

Current TBL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

  1. 0:56
    VGKJames Neal (Deryk Engelland, David Perron)tip-in0.06 xG
    VGK: Engelland, Neal, Perron, Haula, TheodoreTBL: Girardi, Stamkos, Kucherov, Namestnikov, Koekkoek
    VGK 1 – 0 TBL
  2. 16:03
    VGKNate Schmidt (Brayden McNabb, Erik Haula)slap0.02 xG
    VGK: Neal, Perron, McNabb, Haula, SchmidtTBL: Kunitz, Girardi, Stamkos, Kucherov, Sergachev
    VGK 2 – 0 TBL

2nd period

  1. 10:18
    TBLOndrej PalatPP (Steven Stamkos, Nikita Kucherov)wrist0.16 xG
    VGK: Engelland, McNabb, Carpenter, BellemareTBL: Stamkos, Palat, Kucherov, Point, Sergachev
    VGK 2 – 1 TBL
  2. 17:43
    VGKDavid Perron (Deryk Engelland, Shea Theodore)wrist0.13 xG
    VGK: Engelland, Neal, Perron, Haula, TheodoreTBL: Kunitz, Callahan, Stralman, Paquette, Sergachev
    VGK 3 – 1 TBL

3rd period

  1. 0:18
    VGKWilliam Karlsson (Jonathan Marchessault)wrist0.01 xG
    VGK: Engelland, Smith, Karlsson, Marchessault, TheodoreTBL: Stralman, Stamkos, Kucherov, Namestnikov, Koekkoek
    VGK 4 – 1 TBL

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
SkaterLineGAP+/-HitsBlkPIMPPSH
William Karlsson CL1101+120.0500416:56——5932
Reilly Smith RL1000+130.4600016:02——6734
Jonathan Marchessault RL1011+120.0210015:01——6834
Erik Haula LL2011+330.3510017:10——6543
David Perron LL2112+310.1310015:26——6642
James Neal LL2101+350.2220015:19——6743
Alex Tuch RL3000000.0011217:13——4441
Cody Eakin CL3000010.0410015:18——4751
Oscar Lindberg LL3000010.1901213:16——4248
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare LL4000010.1200213:29——6570
Ryan Carpenter CL4000040.4700011:29——6581
William Carrier LL4000000.0050010:14——6581
Brad Hunt DD1000000.0101021:17——6052
Colin Miller DD1000010.0720021:09——6254
Brayden McNabb DD2011+120.0433022:11——6135
Nate Schmidt DD2101+120.0601019:40——6034
Deryk Engelland DD3022+300.0010017:58——5850
Shea Theodore DD3011+320.0202015:38——6254
VGK goalies
GoalieDecSASVGATOI
Marc-Andre Fleury(start)W29281.9662.9560:00

Tampa Bay Lightning

TBL skaters
SkaterLineGAP+/-HitsBlkPIMPPSH
Ondrej Palat LL1101010.2811019:42——4564
Brayden Point CL1000010.0301019:38——4874
Tyler Johnson CL1000040.4501017:21——5268
Yanni Gourde CL2000020.1351215:03——3639
Alex Killorn LL2000000.0010014:31——6763
Cory Conacher CL2000000.0212012:12——3341
Ryan Callahan RL3000-100.0011013:34——3136
Cedric Paquette CL3000-120.0241211:36——3236
Chris Kunitz LL3000-250.3831011:19——3552
Nikita Kucherov RL4011-340.8900016:55——3355
Steven Stamkos CL4011-330.3000016:30——3452
Vladislav Namestnikov CL4000-220.1800012:04——5361
Jake Dotchin DD1000010.0252420:24——4131
Braydon Coburn DD1000020.1101019:19——4636
Anton Stralman DD2000-200.0031020:22——4963
Slater Koekkoek DD2000-210.1131018:31——1932
Mikhail Sergachev DD3000-200.0313021:06——4764
Dan Girardi DD3000-210.0000015:53——2762
TBL goalies
GoalieDecSASVGATOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy(start)L30264.8672.2460:00