Tampa Bay Lightning vs Vegas Golden Knights
Regular season · Tuesday, December 19, 2017 · T-Mobile Arena
SN1 · ATTSN-RM · SUN
Game summary
The Vegas Golden Knights beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4–3 on Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at T-Mobile Arena. The Lightning outshot the Golden Knights 38–36.
Goals came from Steven Stamkos, Vladislav Namestnikov, James Neal, Jonathan Marchessault, Erik Haula, Victor Hedman and Shea Theodore.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 35 saves on 38 shots for the win; Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 32 of 36.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Steven Stamkos (13)Victor Hedman (19), Nikita Kucherov (24)1–007:43 TBL · 
Vladislav Namestnikov (14)Nikita Kucherov (25), Victor Hedman (20)2–019:13 TBL ·
2nd period
James Neal (17)David Perron (18), Shea Theodore (6)2–110:07 VGK · 
Jonathan Marchessault (12)David Perron (19), Shea Theodore (7)2–218:21 VGK ·
3rd period
Erik Haula (13)Shea Theodore (8), David Perron (20)2–304:42 VGK · 
Victor Hedman (4)Steven Stamkos (32)3–316:08 TBL
Shea Theodore (2)Jonathan Marchessault (19), Erik Haula (11)3–419:57 VGK ·
Team stats
TBLVGK
3836
48%52%
2/44/5
108
1520
1917
119
518
Penalties
- 6:35 into the first period
Brayden McNabb · delaying game puck over glass2 min - 15:58 into the first period
Slater Koekkoek · hooking2 min - 18:13 into the first periodJames Neal · slashing2 min
- 9:20 into the second periodBraydon Coburn · delaying game puck over glass2 min
- 17:36 into the second periodChris Kunitz · slashing2 min
- 4:33 into the third periodMikhail Sergachev · high sticking2 min
- 7:26 into the third periodOscar Lindberg · slashing2 min
- 16:52 into the third periodDeryk Engelland · throwing equipment2 min
- 19:36 into the third periodBraydon Coburn · holding the stick2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 77Victor HedmanD | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 4 | 27:44 |
| 86Nikita KucherovR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 7 | 23:31 |
| 91Steven StamkosC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 21:02 |
| 90Vladislav NamestnikovC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 20:21 |
| 13Cedric PaquetteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10:59 |
| 14Chris KunitzL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:22 |
| 17Alex KillornC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:57 |
| 18Ondrej PalatL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15:49 |
| 21Brayden PointC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:56 |
| 23JT BrownR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:10 |
| 37Yanni GourdeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:33 |
| 89Cory ConacherC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:13 |
| 5Dan GirardiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:06 |
| 6Anton StralmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:19 |
| 29Slater KoekkoekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 08:50 |
| 55Braydon CoburnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 16:50 |
| 62Andrej SustrD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:05 |
| 98Mikhail SergachevD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14:11 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Peter BudajG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 88Andrei VasilevskiyG | L | 36 | 4 | .889 |
Vegas Golden Knights
| 27Shea TheodoreD | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 20:39 |
| 57David PerronL | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 19:03 |
| 56Erik HaulaL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 18:37 |
| 81Jonathan MarchessaultC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 16:12 |
| 18James NealL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 19:44 |
| 13Brendan LeipsicL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 10:44 |
| 19Reilly SmithR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:47 |
| 21Cody EakinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:58 |
| 24Oscar LindbergC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:53 |
| 41Pierre-Edouard BellemareL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:13 |
| 71William KarlssonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:54 |
| 89Alex TuchR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 13:51 |
| 92Tomas NosekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:00 |
| 3Brayden McNabbD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:07 |
| 5Deryk EngellandD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:32 |
| 6Colin MillerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | 19:23 |
| 15Jon MerrillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 14:40 |
| 88Nate SchmidtD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22:20 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Marc-Andre FleuryG | W | 38 | 3 | .921 |
| 30Malcolm SubbanG | 0 | 0 | – |