Final/Sun Jan 5, 2025/T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas/2024-25 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2nd3rdT
0011
2013

02/Scoring summary

4 goals

1st

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFVGK
04:53VGKNHL 8479550 (1)Brett Howden, Zach Whitecloud01
12:23VGKMark Stone (10)Jack Eichel, Tanner Pearson02

3rd

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFVGK
07:44VGKJack Eichel (11)Tanner Pearson, Noah Hanifin03
17:42BUFJason Zucker (15)Rasmus Dahlin, JJ Peterka13

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
BUF
Away / Home
VGK
1
Goals
3
24
Shots on goal
33
20
Missed shots
9
10
Blocked shots
17
62
Shot attempts
54
17
Hits
19
27
Faceoffs won of 47
20
57.4%
Faceoff win %
42.6%
22
Giveaways
15
5
Takeaways
6
2
Penalties
3
4
Penalty minutes
6
3
Power plays
2

Shots on goal include goals, the way the league counts them. Shot attempts are shots on goal plus misses plus attempts that were blocked. A club's blocked shots are the blocks it made, credited to the blocker's club: a shot that deflects off one of the shooter's own teammates is credited to neither side, so this can run under the raw count of blocked shots in the game. Penalty minutes are the durations the feed publishes, plus the ten minute misconduct that automatically rides with a match penalty.

Power plays are opportunities, and they are derived rather than stored. The feed carries no strength on a goal and no end time on a penalty, so the penalty record is run forward to find the seconds a club really had a skater more than its opponent: coincidental penalties offset, a double minor counts twice, a misconduct costs no skater, and a call at the final horn counts for nothing. Power play time is not printed, it would rest on the same reconstruction with nothing published to check it against.


04/Buffalo Sabres

Away · 18 skaters, 1 goaltender
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Rasmus DahlinD011-2032325:28
Jason ZuckerL101-203102-121:44
JJ PeterkaR011-1020017:31
Bowen ByramD000-2001024:16
Owen PowerD000-1011123:44
Tage ThompsonC000-1050020:42
Mattias SamuelssonD000-1001019:55
Dylan CozensC000-2221114-719:25
Alex TuchR0000210316:56
Jack QuinnR0000020015:04
Connor CliftonD0000011013:01
Peyton KrebsC000-100004-212:55
Zach BensonL000-1020012:24
Ryan McLeodC000000004-311:17
Beck MalenstynL000001301-010:16
NHL 8477979000131
NHL 8478502000031
Jiri KulichC0000002-7
Skaters123241710

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
NHL 847350333303.909

One line here is not in the box score feed's dressed list for this game. Shots against, saves and goals against are counted off the play-by-play, which names the goaltender who faced every shot and every goal; time on ice is blank on those lines, because only the box score carries it.


05/Vegas Golden Knights

Home · 18 skaters, 1 goaltender
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Jack EichelC112+207004-1121:08
Tanner PearsonL022+2023015:43
Noah HanifinD011+2020523:16
Brett HowdenC011+103102-513:49
Zach WhitecloudD011+1001013:39
Mark StoneR1011000-1
NHL 84795501011212-2
Tomas HertlC000020100-120:08
Shea TheodoreD0000020118:16
Pavel DorofeyevR0000050018:11
Nicolas HagueD000+1002216:03
Keegan KolesarR000+1211213:06
Alexander HoltzR0000000010:20
Cole SchwindtC000000303-28:24
NHL 8474565000414
Brayden McNabbD000142
William KarlssonC0003009-5
NHL 8480007000100
Skaters369331917

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Adin Hill24231.95860:00

06/Penalties

5 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
2nd08:03VGKTomas HertlHolding2Rasmus Dahlin
2nd13:35BUFDylan CozensHolding2William Karlsson
3rd13:13BUFAlex TuchBoarding2Alexander Holtz
3rd16:13VGKKeegan KolesarHigh-sticking2Bowen Byram
3rd19:16VGKAdin HillDelay of game (illegal play by the goaltender)2

07/Game

Date
Sun Jan 5, 2025
Venue
T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas
Season
2024-25
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final
NHL game id
2024020630

Goals, assists, shots, hits, blocks and faceoffs are counted from the play-by-play for this game. Shots on goal include goals, the way the league counts them, so a club's skater shot total is the shot total the opposing goaltender faced. The skater line does not include a goaltender's own assists. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus come from the box score. Save percentage is saves over shots faced and excludes any empty-net goal, which the feed does not credit to a goaltender. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus are on file for 28 of the 38 players on this page. The dressed list itself is short: the box score feed names 37 players for this game, where a club normally dresses twenty and a full game is forty. The names it leaves out cannot be recovered from it, and this page does not invent them. One goaltender is missing from that list, and his line is built from the play-by-play instead: every shot and every goal names the goaltender who faced it, so shots against, saves and goals against are counted the same way the skater columns are. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus stay blank for him, because only the box score carries those. 6 players are not in the player index and appear by NHL id rather than under an invented name.