Vegas Golden Knights vs New York Rangers
Regular season · Sunday, December 7, 2025 · Madison Square Garden
NHLN · MSG · SCRIPPS
Game summary
The Vegas Golden Knights beat the New York Rangers 3-2 in overtime on Sunday, December 7, 2025 at Madison Square Garden. The Golden Knights outshot the Rangers 28-24.
Goals came from Brett Howden, Mika Zibanejad, Alexis Lafrenière, Tomas Hertl and Jack Eichel.
Carter Hart made 22 saves on 24 shots for the win; Jonathan Quick stopped 25 of 28.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Brett Howden (5)Mitch Marner (22), Mark Stone (15)1–000:36 VGK
2nd period
Mika Zibanejad (11)Alexis Lafrenière (10), Matthew Robertson (2)Stone 1:23 into shift1–109:08 NYR
Alexis Lafrenière (7)Mika Zibanejad (13), Artemi Panarin (22)1–213:01 NYR
3rd period
Tomas Hertl (13)Mark Stone (16), Jack Eichel (24)Miller 1:14 into shift2–219:08 VGK
OT period
Jack Eichel (12)Shea Theodore (14), Brett Howden (4)3–204:52 VGK
Tired legs
Seconds into the shift for every skater on the ice at each goal. Taller bar, longer shift.
1–1 · 2nd 9:08 · Zibanejad. Stone was 1:23 into his shift when it went in.
1–0 VGK
1st 0:36 · Howden
Zibanejad 0:36
1–1 NYR
2nd 9:08 · Zibanejad
Long shift: Stone 1:23
1–2 NYR
2nd 13:01 · Lafrenière
Bowman 0:55
2–2 VGK
3rd 19:08 · Hertl
Long shift: Miller 1:14
3–2 VGK
OT 4:52 · Eichel
Panarin 0:25
Hover or tap a bar for the skater.
1.9×
Shots against a skater 80s+ into his shift go in 1.9 times as often as against fresh legs (7.3% vs 3.9%).
30%
of 5v5 goals came with a defender 60s+ into his shift.
Team stats
Penalties
- 1st 09:29
Keegan Kolesar · fighting5 min - 1st 09:29
Sam Carrick · fighting5 min - 2nd 13:13Ben Hutton · roughing2 min
- 2nd 13:13Jaroslav Chmelar · roughing2 min
- 2nd 19:10Artemi Panarin · high sticking2 min
- 3rd 18:02Brett Howden · roughing2 min
- 3rd 18:02Will Borgen · roughing2 min
Season series
Vegas Golden Knights
| 9Jack EichelC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 23:00 |
| 21Brett HowdenC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 14:44 |
| 61Mark StoneR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 19:19 |
| 48Tomas HertlC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 20:03 |
| 93Mitch MarnerR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 19:53 |
| 27Shea TheodoreD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 25:00 |
| 16Pavel DorofeyevR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 5 | 19:12 |
| 19Reilly SmithR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:22 |
| 20Brandon SaadL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 13:41 |
| 23Cole ReinhardtL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:34 |
| 42Braeden BowmanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 13:56 |
| 49Ivan BarbashevL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 16:31 |
| 55Keegan KolesarR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:17 |
| 2Zach WhitecloudD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 21:30 |
| 3Brayden McNabbD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 22:21 |
| 6Kaedan KorczakD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 17:27 |
| 15Noah HanifinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 5 | 23:52 |
| 17Ben HuttonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 | 12:20 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40Akira SchmidG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 | |
| 79Carter HartG | W | 24 | 22 | 2 | .917 | 64:09 |
New York Rangers
| 13Alexis LafrenièreL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 15:22 |
| 93Mika ZibanejadC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 18:51 |
| 10Artemi PanarinL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18:28 |
| 29Matthew RobertsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19:54 |
| 8J.T. MillerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 | 23:51 |
| 16Vincent TrocheckC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 23:50 |
| 22Jonny BrodzinskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:25 |
| 39Sam CarrickC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 07:53 |
| 42Noah LabaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:32 |
| 43Conor ShearyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:03 |
| 49Jaroslav ChmelarR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 09:02 |
| 50Will CuylleL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:15 |
| 65Brett BerardL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:15 |
| 4Braden SchneiderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 24:30 |
| 17Will BorgenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 21:12 |
| 24Carson SoucyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 23:06 |
| 44Vladislav GavrikovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 27:15 |
| 60Scott MorrowD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 13:35 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Igor ShesterkinG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 | |
| 32Jonathan QuickG | O | 28 | 25 | 3 | .893 | 64:52 |