San Jose Sharks vs Vegas Golden Knights
Regular season · Saturday, March 31, 2018 · T-Mobile Arena
ATTSN-RM · NBCSCA
Game summary
The Vegas Golden Knights beat the San Jose Sharks 3–2 on Saturday, March 31, 2018 at T-Mobile Arena. The Golden Knights outshot the Sharks 38–31.
Goals came from Shea Theodore, Joe Pavelski, Oscar Lindberg, Marc-Edouard Vlasic and William Karlsson.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 29 saves on 31 shots for the win; Martin Jones stopped 35 of 38.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Shea Theodore (6)William Karlsson (33), Deryk Engelland (18)0–102:21 VGK
Joe Pavelski (21)Timo Meier (15), Joonas Donskoi (18)1–107:14 SJS
2nd period
Oscar Lindberg (8)Shea Theodore (21)1–203:03 VGK
Marc-Edouard Vlasic (11)Joe Pavelski (42), Justin Braun (28)2–209:50 SJS
3rd period
William Karlsson (42)Unassisted2–308:35 VGK ·
Team stats
SJSVGK
3138
44%56%
0/20/4
284
2244
2315
97
817
Penalties
- 2:41 into the first period
Evander Kane · hooking2 min - 7:32 into the first period
Erik Haula · hooking2 min - 5:41 into the second periodKevin Labanc · high sticking2 min
- 19:47 into the second periodBrent Burns · tripping2 min
- 7:35 into the third periodJon Merrill · tripping2 min
- 12:45 into the third periodEvander Kane · tripping2 min
- 20:00 into the third periodMarc-Edouard Vlasic · game misconduct10 min
- 20:00 into the third periodMarc-Edouard Vlasic · misconduct10 min
Season series
San Jose Sharks
| 8Joe PavelskiC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 19:36 |
| 27Joonas DonskoiR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:02 |
| 28Timo MeierR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 14:03 |
| 44Marc-Edouard VlasicD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 26:18 |
| 61Justin BraunD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 23:52 |
| 9Evander KaneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 18:10 |
| 20Marcus SorensenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 09:04 |
| 39Logan CoutureC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 19:10 |
| 42Joel WardR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:43 |
| 48Tomas HertlC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:21 |
| 50Chris TierneyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:09 |
| 62Kevin LabancR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:37 |
| 68Melker KarlssonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:29 |
| 89Mikkel BoedkerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:11 |
| 4Brenden DillonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 15:15 |
| 7Paul MartinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 14:46 |
| 74Dylan DeMeloD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:29 |
| 88Brent BurnsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 22:04 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Aaron DellG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Martin JonesG | L | 38 | 3 | .921 |
Vegas Golden Knights
| 71William KarlssonC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 20:04 |
| 27Shea TheodoreD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 6 | 22:53 |
| 24Oscar LindbergC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10:08 |
| 5Deryk EngellandD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 21:05 |
| 18James NealL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 16:51 |
| 21Cody EakinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 12:33 |
| 40Ryan CarpenterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:33 |
| 41Pierre-Edouard BellemareL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:45 |
| 56Erik HaulaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:56 |
| 75Ryan ReavesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:12 |
| 81Jonathan MarchessaultC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 18:51 |
| 89Alex TuchR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:40 |
| 90Tomas TatarL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:22 |
| 92Tomas NosekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:29 |
| 3Brayden McNabbD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 21:01 |
| 6Colin MillerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:19 |
| 15Jon MerrillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:45 |
| 88Nate SchmidtD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 21:33 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Marc-Andre FleuryG | W | 31 | 2 | .935 |
| 30Malcolm SubbanG | 0 | 0 | – |