NHL Recaps: Tuesday, Dec 21, 2021

1 game: what happened that matters for your fantasy team, built from the play-by-play and shift charts.

Game recaps

Final

Full report

Tampa Bay Lightning

Vegas Golden Knights

Tampa Bay Lightning edge Vegas Golden Knights 4–3

Tampa Bay Lightning beat Vegas Golden Knights 4–3 at VGK. Mark Stone (VGK) led the scoring with 2G 0A. TBL's first power-play unit (Killorn, Stamkos, Hedman, Palat and Raddysh) scored 1 power-play goal on 4 attempts in 2:50 together.

•Mark Stone had two goals (2 points) on 5 shots in 7:47.
•Shea Theodore had 2 assists (2 points) on 2 shots in 25:33.
•TBL's first power-play unit (Killorn, Stamkos, Hedman, Palat and Raddysh) scored 1 power-play goal on 4 attempts in 2:50 together.

Full report: shot map, shifts, lines, box score →

Top performers

Player	Game	G	A	P	SOG	Hits	Blk	TOI	PP
Mark Stone VGK	vs TBL	2	0	2	5	3	0	7:47	—
Shea Theodore VGK	vs TBL	0	2	2	2	1	0	25:33	—
Reilly Smith VGK	vs TBL	0	0	0	7	2	0	17:36	—
Brayden McNabb VGK	vs TBL	0	0	0	1	2	6	18:54	—

Goalie notes

Goalie	Game	Dec	SA	GA	SV%
Andrei Vasilevskiy TBL	at VGK	W	41	3	.927
Laurent Brossoit VGK	vs TBL	L	19	4	.789

Next up: tonight's starting goalies, today's line combinations and today's games. Takeaways are generated from the numbers with fixed rules; nothing is written by a language model.