National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Montreal 3, Vegas 2
When: 3:00 PM ET, Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Where: T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada
Referees: Dan O'Rourke, Garrett Rank
Linesmen: Joe Mahon, Jesse Marquis
Attendance: 17925
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Montreal 0123
Vegas 2002
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
2:23 - Golden Knights Zach Whitecloud (EV) Assists: Tomas Hertl , Keegan Kolesar
19:48 - Golden Knights Noah Hanifin (EV) Unassisted
Penalties
None.
2nd Period
Scoring
17:27 - Canadiens Cole Caufield (EV) Assists: Nick Suzuki , Juraj Slafkovsky
Penalties
9:11 - Canadiens Christian Dvorak (2) Tripping
3rd Period
Scoring
7:58 - Canadiens Emil Heineman (EV) Assists: David Savard
10:09 - Canadiens Kirby Dach (EV) Assists: Josh Anderson
Penalties
None.
Montreal Canadiens
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Sam Montembeault G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00 58:00 0:00 2:00 0 0 - - - - -
Jakub Dobes G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Mike Matheson D 0 0 0 +1 0 0 23 21:27 20:41 0:00 0:46 0 0 2 1 - - -
Brendan Gallagher RW 0 0 0 E 0 2 17 13:34 13:34 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Cole Caufield RW 1 0 1 +1 0 4 15 15:12 15:12 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Nick Suzuki C 0 1 1 +1 0 0 18 18:19 17:03 0:00 1:16 0 0 1 - 4 4 50
Alex Newhook C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 13 14:06 14:06 0:00 0:00 0 0 3 - 1 3 25
Josh Anderson RW 0 1 1 E 0 3 19 16:24 15:11 0:00 1:13 0 0 4 3 1 1 50
Juraj Slafkovsky LW 0 1 1 +1 0 1 15 15:36 15:36 0:00 0:00 0 0 4 - 0 1 0
Kaiden Guhle D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 25 24:20 23:07 0:00 1:13 0 0 4 - - - -
Christian Dvorak C 0 0 0 E 2 0 21 14:36 14:36 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - 8 3 73
Joel Armia RW 0 0 0 +1 0 1 16 14:28 13:41 0:00 0:47 0 0 4 2 0 1 0
Alexandre Carrier D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 25 23:08 21:55 0:00 1:13 0 0 1 1 - - -
Lane Hutson D 0 0 0 +1 0 2 20 21:23 21:19 0:00 0:04 0 0 - 1 - - -
Emil Heineman LW 1 0 1 +1 0 1 14 10:35 10:35 0:00 0:00 0 0 5 - - - -
David Savard D 0 1 1 +1 0 1 19 15:40 14:55 0:00 0:45 0 0 - 2 - - -
Jake Evans C 0 0 0 +1 0 1 15 15:52 15:09 0:00 0:43 0 0 2 - 8 3 73
Arber Xhekaj D 0 0 0 +1 0 1 16 14:20 14:20 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Kirby Dach C 1 0 1 -1 0 3 13 14:57 14:57 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 1 2 1 67
Patrik Laine RW 0 0 0 -1 0 0 13 14:03 14:03 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Vegas Golden Knights
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Adin Hill G 0 0 0 0 0 58:02 56:02 2:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Ilya Samsonov G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Zach Whitecloud D 1 0 1 +1 0 1 21 19:28 19:28 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 1 - - -
Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 19 13:58 13:58 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Alex Pietrangelo D 0 0 0 E 0 2 25 23:24 23:22 0:02 0:00 0 0 1 2 - - -
Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 E 0 5 19 22:23 20:23 2:00 0:00 0 0 3 - 5 5 50
Nicolas Hague D 0 0 0 E 0 2 20 19:23 19:23 0:00 0:00 0 0 - 3 - - -
Noah Hanifin D 1 0 1 +2 0 2 25 24:11 24:11 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 1 - - -
Pavel Dorofeyev LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 19 18:00 18:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Brett Howden C 0 0 0 E 0 1 17 14:14 14:14 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 - 3 6 33
Cole Schwindt RW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 12 9:17 9:17 0:00 0:00 0 0 3 - 2 3 40
Alexander Holtz RW 0 0 0 -1 0 0 11 8:28 8:28 0:00 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Shea Theodore D 0 0 0 -3 0 2 20 17:39 15:39 2:00 0:00 0 0 1 1 - - -
Jonas Rondbjerg RW 0 0 0 -1 0 0 12 9:38 9:38 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Tomas Hertl C 0 1 1 E 0 2 17 18:19 16:19 2:00 0:00 0 0 1 - 0 2 0
Keegan Kolesar RW 0 1 1 E 0 1 17 13:03 13:03 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Mark Stone RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 19 21:18 19:20 1:58 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Tanner Pearson LW 0 0 0 E 0 4 18 13:51 13:51 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 - 0 3 0
William Karlsson C 0 0 0 E 0 0 18 14:57 14:57 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 1 7 5 58
Victor Olofsson RW 0 0 0 E 0 3 19 20:27 18:27 2:00 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Goaltending
Montreal
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Sam Montembeault W (14-14-2) 29 27 2 .931 0 60:00
Vegas
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Adin Hill L (16-6-2) 22 19 3 .864 0 58:02