Vegas Golden Knights vs San Jose Sharks
Regular season · Tuesday, January 7, 2025 · SAP Center at San Jose
SN1 · NBCSCA · SCRIPPS
Game summary
The Vegas Golden Knights beat the San Jose Sharks 4-2 on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 at SAP Center at San Jose. The Golden Knights outshot the Sharks 42-21.
Goals came from Mark Stone, Zach Whitecloud, William Eklund, Victor Olofsson, Timothy Liljegren and Tomas Hertl.
Ilya Samsonov made 19 saves on 21 shots for the win; Alexandar Georgiev stopped 38 of 41.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Mark Stone (11)Shea Theodore (28), William Karlsson (11)1–008:39 VGK
Zach Whitecloud (3)Brett Howden (6), Keegan Kolesar (9)2–010:08 VGK
2nd period
William Eklund (8)Collin Graf (2), Alexander Wennberg (12)2–109:49 SJS · PPG
3rd period
Victor Olofsson (9)Jack Eichel (42), Shea Theodore (29)Ceci 1:10 into shift3–101:10 VGK · PPG
Timothy Liljegren (4)William Eklund (22), Fabian Zetterlund (16)Pietrangelo 1:36 into shift3–210:41 SJS · PPG
Tomas Hertl (11)Mark Stone (24)4–218:40 VGK · EN
Tired legs
Seconds into the shift for every skater on the ice at each goal. Taller bar, longer shift.
3–2 · 3rd 10:41 · Liljegren. Pietrangelo was 1:36 into his shift when it went in.
1–0 VGK
1st 8:39 · Stone
Ceci 0:26
2–0 VGK
1st 10:08 · Whitecloud
Rutta 0:27
2–1 SJS
2nd 9:49 · PP · Eklund
Howden 0:58
3–1 VGK
3rd 1:10 · PP · Olofsson
Long shift: Ceci 1:10
3–2 SJS
3rd 10:41 · PP · Liljegren
Stuck out there: Pietrangelo 1:36
4–2 VGK
3rd 18:40 · EN · Hertl
Zetterlund 2:03
Hover or tap a bar for the skater.
1.6×
Shots against a skater 80s+ into his shift go in 1.6 times as often as against fresh legs (6.6% vs 4.2%).
29%
of 5v5 goals came with a defender 60s+ into his shift.
Team stats
Penalties
- 2nd 08:20
Tomas Hertl · interference2 min - 2nd 19:57
Fabian Zetterlund · slashing2 min - 3rd 09:21Victor Olofsson · hooking2 min
Season series
Vegas Golden Knights
| 61Mark StoneR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 6 | 18:26 |
| 27Shea TheodoreD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 19:56 |
| 9Jack EichelC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 20:49 |
| 21Brett HowdenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 16:38 |
| 48Tomas HertlC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 15:12 |
| 55Keegan KolesarR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:25 |
| 71William KarlssonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15:46 |
| 95Victor OlofssonL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 6 | 15:39 |
| 2Zach WhitecloudD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 16:02 |
| 16Pavel DorofeyevL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13:47 |
| 22Cole SchwindtR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10:09 |
| 26Alexander HoltzR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:08 |
| 46Jonas RondbjergR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:51 |
| 70Tanner PearsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 16:26 |
| 3Brayden McNabbD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:01 |
| 7Alex PietrangeloD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 23:45 |
| 14Nicolas HagueD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 16:21 |
| 15Noah HanifinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | 21:53 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33Adin HillG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 | |
| 35Ilya SamsonovG | W | 21 | 19 | 2 | .905 | 59:57 |
San Jose Sharks
| 72William EklundL | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 5 | 19:13 |
| 20Fabian ZetterlundL | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1 | 20:46 |
| 21Alexander WennbergC | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 1 | 15:40 |
| 51Collin GrafR | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 2 | 16:44 |
| 37Timothy LiljegrenD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20:08 |
| 2Will SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 15:37 |
| 10Klim KostinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 09:20 |
| 11Luke KuninC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12:26 |
| 15Nikolai KovalenkoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:43 |
| 23Barclay GoodrowC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:19 |
| 64Mikael GranlundC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 20:14 |
| 71Macklin CelebriniC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 18:00 |
| 73Tyler ToffoliC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 13:31 |
| 3Henry ThrunD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 23:44 |
| 4Cody CeciD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 19:19 |
| 38Mario FerraroD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:40 |
| 84Jan RuttaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 17:50 |
| 85Shakir MukhamadullinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 13:52 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Yaroslav AskarovG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 | |
| 40Alexandar GeorgievG | L | 41 | 38 | 3 | .927 | 58:41 |