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Tuesday, December 23, 2025
10:00 PM ET
T-Mobile Arena (NBCSCA)
SJS
San Jose Sharks
2 – 7
Final
Vegas Golden Knights
 VGK
34% xGF%
66% xGF%
SJS was expected to score 1.93 goals VGK was expected to score 3.70 goals
P1 P2 P3 0 1 2 3 4 Cumulative xG SJS VGK Dots represent goals
Shot Map (xG Shots Only) Shot Goal
xG by State San Jose Sharks Vegas Golden Knights
Strength State Time xG G Time xG G
Power Play 1:09 0.00 0 5:19 1.02 1
Even Strength 53:32 1.93 2 53:32 2.68 6
Penalty Kill 5:19 0.00 0 1:09 0.00 0
Score State Time xG G Time xG G
Up 2+ 0:00 0.00 0 50:53 2.68 5
Up 1 0:00 0.00 0 7:21 0.78 1
Tied 1:46 0.00 0 1:46 0.23 1
Down 1 7:21 0.10 0 0:00 0.00 0
Down 2+ 50:53 1.83 2 0:00 0.00 0
  • ► Brett Howden scores at 1:46 in the 1st period 0.11 xG (0-1)
  • ► Mitch Marner scores at 9:07 in the 1st period 0.11 xG (0-2)
  • ► Colton Sissons scores at 11:37 in the 1st period 0.09 xG (0-3)
  • ► Tomas Hertl scores at 14:57 in the 1st period 0.11 xG (0-4)
  • ► Mark Stone scores at 18:34 in the 1st period 0.26 xG (0-5)
  • ► Macklin Celebrini scores at 6:49 in the 2nd period 0.08 xG (1-5)
  • ► Reilly Smith scores at 18:50 in the 2nd period 0.06 xG (1-6)
  • ► Mitch Marner scores at 5:22 in the 3rd period 0.19 xG (1-7)
  • ► Collin Graf scores at 8:04 in the 3rd period 0.09 xG (2-7)
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VGK VGK xWin%
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Synthesized xGF% & GF% Analysis
Forwards
Team Player xG G A Pts Shifts TOI SOG +/- PIM PPG PPP SHG GWG
VGK Mitch Marner (R) 0.68 2 0 2 18 16:53 5 +2 0 1 0 0 0
VGK Pavel Dorofeyev (R) 0.68 0 2 2 20 17:26 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
SJS William Eklund (L) 0.60 0 0 0 21 19:09 5 -1 4 0 0 0 0
VGK Tomas Hertl (C) 0.53 1 0 1 21 17:52 3 -1 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Brett Howden (C) 0.49 1 0 1 17 15:47 1 +2 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Mark Stone (R) 0.44 1 1 2 18 15:48 2 +2 0 0 0 0 0
SJS Macklin Celebrini (C) 0.34 1 0 1 19 20:04 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
SJS Igor Chernyshov (L) 0.26 0 0 0 18 16:50 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Colton Sissons (C) 0.24 1 0 1 18 13:03 3 +1 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Keegan Kolesar (R) 0.21 0 1 1 18 14:16 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
SJS Jeff Skinner (L) 0.17 0 0 0 15 09:02 0 -4 0 0 0 0 0
SJS Ty Dellandrea (C) 0.16 0 0 0 19 11:38 0 -3 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Brandon Saad (L) 0.11 0 1 1 18 14:19 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
SJS Collin Graf (R) 0.09 1 0 1 22 17:26 1 +1 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Reilly Smith (R) 0.06 1 1 2 16 13:56 1 +2 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Ivan Barbashev (L) 0.05 0 2 2 17 11:34 0 +2 0 0 0 0 0
SJS Tyler Toffoli (C) 0.04 0 2 2 21 15:24 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
SJS Zack Ostapchuk (C) 0.04 0 0 0 15 10:41 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
SJS Barclay Goodrow (C) 0.04 0 0 0 18 13:37 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Alexander Holtz (R) 0.02 0 0 0 19 18:13 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
SJS Ethan Cardwell (R) 0.02 0 0 0 16 09:48 1 -4 0 0 0 0 0
SJS Alexander Wennberg (C) 0.00 0 1 1 24 17:38 1 -1 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Braeden Bowman (R) 0.00 0 2 2 15 12:31 0 +2 0 0 0 0 0
SJS Ryan Reaves (R) 0.00 0 0 0 15 11:20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Defensemen
Team Player xG G A Pts Shifts TOI SOG +/- PIM PPG PPP SHG GWG
SJS John Klingberg (D) 0.12 0 0 0 22 19:58 3 -1 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Noah Hanifin (D) 0.09 0 1 1 24 21:23 0 +2 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Zach Whitecloud (D) 0.04 0 0 0 23 17:30 0 +1 2 0 0 0 0
SJS Shakir Mukhamadullin (D) 0.04 0 0 0 24 20:02 2 -2 2 0 0 0 0
VGK Jeremy Lauzon (D) 0.03 0 0 0 22 19:26 1 +2 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Ben Hutton (D) 0.02 0 0 0 25 20:29 1 +1 2 0 0 0 0
SJS Mario Ferraro (D) 0.01 0 0 0 26 20:44 1 -2 2 0 0 0 0
SJS Dmitry Orlov (D) 0.00 0 0 0 25 21:22 1 -2 0 0 0 0 0
SJS Sam Dickinson (D) 0.00 0 0 0 22 18:22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
SJS Nick Leddy (D) 0.00 0 0 0 23 19:46 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Kaedan Korczak (D) 0.00 0 2 2 23 20:19 0 +1 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Brayden McNabb (D) 0.00 0 0 0 21 17:15 0 +1 0 0 0 0 0
Goalies
Team Player SV%Ax SV% GSAx GA Saves TOI SA Dec SO
VGK Carter Hart (G) -0.29% 0.913 -0.1 2 21 60:00 23 W 0
SJS Yaroslav Askarov (G) -11.79% 0.750 -1.9 4 12 14:57 16 L 0
SJS Alex Nedeljkovic (G) -14.14% 0.700 -1.4 3 7 45:03 10 — 0