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Thursday, January 8, 2026
10:00 PM ET
T-Mobile Arena (FDSNOH)
CBJ
Columbus Blue Jackets
3 – 5
Final
Vegas Golden Knights
 VGK
50% xGF%
50% xGF%
CBJ was expected to score 3.09 goals VGK was expected to score 3.05 goals
P1 P2 P3 0 1 2 3 Cumulative xG CBJ VGK Dots represent goals
Shot Map (xG Shots Only) Shot Goal
xG by State Columbus Blue Jackets Vegas Golden Knights
Strength State Time xG G Time xG G
Power Play 5:12 0.55 0 2:23 1.22 2
Even Strength 52:25 2.54 3 52:25 1.83 3
Penalty Kill 2:23 0.00 0 5:12 0.00 0
Score State Time xG G Time xG G
Up 2+ 1:39 0.00 0 19:30 1.23 0
Up 1 15:16 0.37 1 7:23 0.42 2
Tied 16:12 1.20 1 16:12 0.36 1
Down 1 7:23 0.21 0 15:16 0.82 1
Down 2+ 19:30 1.31 1 1:39 0.22 1
  • ► Boone Jenner scores at 8:24 in the 1st period 0.14 xG (1-0)
  • ► Kent Johnson scores at 10:41 in the 1st period 0.11 xG (2-0)
  • ► Reilly Smith scores at 12:20 in the 1st period 0.17 xG (2-1)
  • ► Reilly Smith scores at 5:19 in the 2nd period 0.10 xG (2-2)
  • ► Jack Eichel scores at 13:07 in the 2nd period 0.06 xG (2-3)
  • ► Mark Stone scores at 18:44 in the 2nd period 0.21 xG (2-4)
  • ► Kirill Marchenko scores at 14:28 in the 3rd period 0.14 xG (3-4)
  • ► Brett Howden scores at 16:14 in the 3rd period 0.11 xG (3-5)
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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 Tomas Hertl (C) 0.68 0 2 2 22 16:09 5 +1 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Mark Stone (R) 0.56 1 2 3 24 22:32 3 +1 0 1 0 0 0
CBJ Boone Jenner (C) 0.41 1 1 2 21 17:57 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
CBJ Kirill Marchenko (R) 0.38 1 0 1 20 19:35 4 +1 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Brett Howden (C) 0.38 1 0 1 20 11:04 3 +1 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Reilly Smith (R) 0.35 2 0 2 18 14:21 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
CBJ Sean Monahan (C) 0.31 0 2 2 20 17:11 1 +1 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Ivan Barbashev (L) 0.31 0 1 1 23 20:47 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
CBJ Charlie Coyle (C) 0.24 0 0 0 17 17:17 1 -1 0 0 0 0 0
CBJ Kent Johnson (C) 0.23 1 0 1 20 16:41 3 -1 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Jack Eichel (C) 0.21 1 1 2 24 22:40 4 +1 0 0 0 0 0
CBJ Brendan Gaunce (C) 0.19 0 0 0 14 11:06 2 -1 2 0 0 0 0
VGK Pavel Dorofeyev (R) 0.16 0 0 0 14 11:35 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Braeden Bowman (R) 0.16 0 0 0 13 09:24 1 -1 0 0 0 0 0
CBJ Mathieu Olivier (R) 0.13 0 0 0 15 13:40 0 -1 2 0 0 0 0
VGK Keegan Kolesar (R) 0.08 0 1 1 19 12:02 2 +1 2 0 0 0 0
CBJ Cole Sillinger (C) 0.08 0 0 0 16 13:57 1 -1 0 0 0 0 0
CBJ Dmitri Voronkov (L) 0.07 0 0 0 23 16:29 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
CBJ Adam Fantilli (C) 0.05 0 1 1 22 18:12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
CBJ Mikael Pyyhtia (L) 0.04 0 0 0 12 09:27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
CBJ Zachary Aston-Reese (L) 0.03 0 0 0 12 10:26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Colton Sissons (C) 0.02 0 0 0 15 10:34 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Mitch Marner (R) 0.02 0 2 2 18 17:40 1 +1 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Brandon Saad (L) 0.00 0 0 0 16 13:40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Defensemen
Team Player xG G A Pts Shifts TOI SOG +/- PIM PPG PPP SHG GWG
CBJ Damon Severson (D) 0.51 0 0 0 23 23:21 2 -1 0 0 0 0 0
CBJ Ivan Provorov (D) 0.26 0 1 1 24 24:13 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
CBJ Zach Werenski (D) 0.15 0 1 1 26 28:00 1 +1 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Jeremy Lauzon (D) 0.04 0 0 0 21 17:16 1 -1 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Kaedan Korczak (D) 0.03 0 0 0 21 18:22 1 -1 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Zach Whitecloud (D) 0.02 0 0 0 28 22:52 1 +2 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Noah Hanifin (D) 0.01 0 0 0 29 24:54 0 +2 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Dylan Coghlan (D) 0.01 0 0 0 19 15:58 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
CBJ Dante Fabbro (D) 0.01 0 0 0 14 12:58 1 -1 0 0 0 0 0
CBJ Denton Mateychuk (D) 0.00 0 0 0 22 19:14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
VGK Ben Hutton (D) 0.00 0 1 1 19 16:17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
CBJ Egor Zamula (D) 0.00 0 0 0 11 11:12 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0
Goalies
Team Player SV%Ax SV% GSAx GA Saves TOI SA Dec SO
VGK Akira Schmid (G) +1.72% 0.917 0.4 2 22 51:29 24 W 0
CBJ Jet Greaves (G) -7.50% 0.808 -1.9 5 21 56:48 26 L 0
VGK Carter Hart (G) -32.25% 0.000 -0.3 1 0 08:24 1 — 0