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Lightning at Golden Knights

Lightning 6, Golden Knights 2 · first star Andrei Vasilevskiy (0 GA, .941 SV%).

2026-27 regular season · 2026-27 regular season, updated nightly. Data as of October 24, 2026, source NHL.

Tampa Bay Lightning 6 at Vegas Golden Knights 2

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 · 10:30 PM ET · T-Mobile Arena, Paradise · TV ESPN · SN+

Line score by period
Team 1 2 3 T SOG
Lightning 231621
Golden Knights 200234

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Lightning attack left, Golden Knights attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 1 mark in a team's own end is an attempt logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: TBL 21, VGK 34.

Shot chart, Lightning at Golden Knights Lightning 21 shots on goal (6 goals, 17 missed, 18 blocked) attacking left; Golden Knights 34 shots on goal (2 goals, 15 missed, 13 blocked) attacking right.
TBL in red VGK in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Lightning 21 shots on goal (6 goals, 17 missed, 18 blocked) attacking left; Golden Knights 34 shots on goal (2 goals, 15 missed, 13 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period TBL SOG TBL G TBL ATT VGK SOG VGK G VGK ATT
1st722311217
2nd731915027
3rd71148018
Total2165634262

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation TBL SOG TBL G VGK SOG VGK G
Even strength185261
Power play1160
Short-handed2021

Attempt share by period

Golden Knights took 52.5% of the shot attempts, and 49.5% of the 93 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 Lightning hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Lightning at Golden Knights
Period VGK CF% VGK FF%
1st42.548.1
2nd58.761.1
3rd56.358.3
Game52.556.3

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

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Scoring summary

1st period

  1. 04:11 TBL Brandon Hagel (7) PP Charle-Edouard D'Astous (2), Nikita Kucherov (8) · tip-in 1–0
  2. 13:16 VGK Ivan Barbashev (1) Mitch Marner (10) · snap 1–1
  3. 14:04 TBL John Carlson (3) Unassisted · wrist 2–1
  4. 18:30 VGK Mark Stone (8) SH Braeden Bowman (2) · snap 2–2

2nd period

  1. 06:44 TBL Anthony Cirelli (2) Nikita Kucherov (9) · wrist 3–2
  2. 10:09 TBL Anthony Cirelli (3) Unassisted · snap 4–2
  3. 17:56 TBL Victor Hedman (2) Unassisted · wrist 5–2

3rd period

  1. 05:16 TBL Nikita Kucherov (4) Unassisted · snap 6–2

Three stars

  1. Andrei Vasilevskiy TBL · G #88 · 0 GA, .941 SV%
  2. Nikita Kucherov TBL · R #86 · 1 G, 2 A
  3. Anthony Cirelli TBL · C #71 · 2 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period Time Team Player Infraction Min Drawn by
1st03:32 VGK Dylan Coghlanholding2Ilya Mikheyev
1st07:38 TBL Conor Geekieunsportsmanlike conduct2Marc Gatcomb
1st17:06 VGK Brayden McNabbhigh sticking2Brayden Point
2nd01:18 VGK Mitch Marnertripping2J.J. Moser
2nd01:41 TBL Charle-Edouard D'Astousinterference2William Karlsson
2nd12:31 TBL Pontus Holmbergholding2Nic Dowd
3rd01:24 TBL Emil Lillebergcross checking2Brett Howden

Boxscore

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lightning skaters · by points
Player Pos G A PTS +/- SOG HITS BLK PIM FO% TOI
Nikita Kucherov #86 R123+320000.018:19
Anthony Cirelli #71 C202+1200061.510:30
Brandon Hagel #38 L101+230000.018:55
John Carlson #74 D101+340100.017:46
Victor Hedman #77 D101+220200.016:52
Charle-Edouard D'Astous #51 D011-200120.012:52
Brayden Point #21 C000+2100058.316:39
Conor Geekie #94 C000-1131242.914:33
Gage Goncalves #93 C00000000100.015:27
Jake Guentzel #59 C000+3002037.518:16
Zemgus Girgensons #28 C0000212062.517:21
Jeffrey Viel #25 L000003100.012:56
Ilya Mikheyev #95 R000020000.017:37
Pontus Holmberg #29 R000-21122100.013:40
Emil Lilleberg #78 D000+102020.015:03
Erik Cernak #81 D000003100.020:30
J.J. Moser #90 D000+310000.017:05
Ryan McDonagh #27 D000000000.017:42
Lightning goalies
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% EV PP TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy #88 W34322.94125/266/659:57

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player Pos G A PTS +/- SOG HITS BLK PIM FO% TOI
Ivan Barbashev #49 L101022000.016:07
Mark Stone #61 R101020100.018:29
Braeden Bowman #42 R011020000.012:05
Mitch Marner #93 R011-250120.017:27
Brett Howden #21 C000-316000.014:50
Jack Eichel #9 C0000001026.719:33
Marc Gatcomb #17 C000-115000.012:46
Nic Dowd #26 C000-1030055.612:13
Raphael Lavoie #36 C00001100100.011:57
Tomas Hertl #48 C0000520050.017:13
William Karlsson #71 C000-3300050.016:00
Trevor Connelly #24 L000010100.016:17
Brayden McNabb #3 D000-120120.017:46
Dylan Coghlan #52 D000-120220.015:43
Jeremy Lauzon #5 D000-125300.017:52
Noah Hanifin #15 D000010200.019:16
Rasmus Andersson #4 D000-210200.019:25
Shea Theodore #27 D000-130300.020:36
Golden Knights goalies
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% EV PP TOI
Carter Hart #79 L21156.71413/180/159:46

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 2026-10-24.