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Sat, Jan 10, 2026·T-Mobile Arena, Paradise

St. Louis Blues 2, Vegas Golden Knights 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Vegas Golden Knights win this game 60% of the time.

VGK winsSTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
STL140718219
VGK1122815425

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

Every goal, with the change it made to the home team's win probability.

  1. P1 0:53STLRobert ThomasAssists: Philip Broberg, Colton Parayko · Wrist, 0.12 xG1–0
  2. P1 7:34VGKMitch MarnerUnassisted · Wrist, 0.21 xG1–1
  3. P2 1:27VGKJack EichelAssists: Kaedan Korczak · Wrist, 0.03 xG1–2
  4. P2 15:48VGKShea TheodoreGWGAssists: Jeremy Lauzon, Mitch Marner · Wrist, 0.03 xG1–3
  5. P3 3:33STLJake NeighboursPPAssists: Robert Thomas, Jordan Kyrou · Snap, 0.16 xG2–3
  6. P3 17:36VGKMark StoneENUnassisted · Wrist, 0.33 xG2–4
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 4:27STLBrayden Schenn: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 4:27VGKMark Stone: Fighting5 min
  3. P2 8:10STLOskar Sundqvist: Roughing2 min
  4. P3 2:34VGKPavel Dorofeyev: Roughing2 min · PPG

Replay

Watch the game unfold on the ice: every shot, hit, turnover and faceoff appears as it happened, then fades. Drag the timeline to jump; goals are marked on it.

STL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0VGK
47% to win53% to win
← STL attackVGK attack →
  1. P1 20:00Schenn won the faceoff against Hertl
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

STLVGK
19Shots on goal25
2.1Expected goals2.7
41Shot attempts52
31Faceoffs won23
1Power plays1
7Penalty minutes7
30Hits21
17Blocked shots9
12Giveaways19
3Takeaways7

Line combinations that worked

Model-based

Each team's forward lines and defence pairs at 5-on-5 (two minutes or more together), best first by expected goals for minus against.

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestSchenn – Buchnevich – Snuggerud11:17

    xG 0.76–0.19 (80%)attempts 12–5goals 0–1

  2. Kyrou – Thomas – Neighbours10:33

    xG 0.78–0.43 (64%)attempts 13–6goals 1–0

  3. Berggren – Dvorsky – Stenberg8:29

    xG 0.01–0.11 (11%)attempts 3–6goals 0–0

  4. Sundqvist – Walker – Toropchenko9:30

    xG 0.10–0.66 (13%)attempts 4–15goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestTucker – Mailloux2:11

    xG 0.59–0.03 (95%)attempts 5–1goals 0–1

  2. Faulk – Fowler7:11

    xG 0.27–0.00 (99%)attempts 6–2goals 0–0

  3. Parayko – Mailloux4:25

    xG 0.19–0.00 (100%)attempts 6–1goals 0–0

Vegas Golden Knights

Forward lines

  1. bestSmith – Marner – Dorofeyev11:15

    xG 0.48–0.04 (92%)attempts 13–3goals 1–0

  2. Stone – Barbashev – Eichel10:07

    xG 0.42–0.28 (60%)attempts 5–3goals 0–1

  3. Sissons – Reinhardt – Bowman8:11

    xG 0.12–0.05 (72%)attempts 6–5goals 0–0

  4. Hertl – Kolesar – Howden12:21

    xG 0.30–0.82 (27%)attempts 13–15goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHutton – Korczak15:45

    xG 0.54–0.21 (72%)attempts 18–7goals 1–0

  2. Hanifin – Whitecloud17:42

    xG 0.72–0.59 (55%)attempts 16–17goals 1–0

  3. Theodore – Lauzon18:17

    xG 0.68–0.90 (43%)attempts 12–13goals 1–1

How the game flowed

Model-based

Chance quality for each side, minute by minute, with pressure underneath.

Expected goals flow

Running total of expected goals for each team. Steep climbs are spells of pressure; dots are goals. Shaded bands mark power plays (team colour), 4-on-4 or 3-on-3 (grey) and empty nets.

VGK 2.7 xGSTL 2.1 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VGKSTL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

VGK's chance of winning through the game. Above the middle line VGK is favoured, below it STL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 43/100 · #787 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.12 · 6 goals in reachComeback index 37% (winner's lowest chance)
STL 100%5050%50VGK 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +21 pts

Did the better team win?

Every shot replayed 10,000 times, scoring with its expected-goal probability.

Based on shot quality alone, Vegas Golden Knights win this game 60% of the time.

VGK winsSTL wins

Simulated goal difference (VGK − STL), 10,000 replays

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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).