Golden Knights 4, Maple Leafs 3 (SO): Toronto gives up a 3–0 first-period lead Discussion
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FINAL/SO, Oct 8, T-Mobile Arena: Maple Leafs 3, Golden Knights 4. Goals by period: TOR 3-0-0-0, VGK 1-2-0-0, shootout VGK 1-0 (game winner Connelly). Shots: TOR 9-8-4-3 (24), VGK 7-21-11-4 (43).
Vegas beat Toronto 4–3 in a shootout after Toronto led 3–0 in the 1st. Vegas outshot the Leafs 36–15 from the 2nd period on and 43–24 overall. Bobrovsky stopped 40 of 43.
Toronto went up 3–0 inside nine minutes, then Vegas scored four times (three in regulation, one in the shootout) and took the extra point. This is the first meeting of two this season: the second is Dec 12 in Toronto.
Goals, in order
- 1st, 0:34 · TOR · even strength. Jack Roslovic, backhand. Assists: Auston Matthews, Kirill Marchenko. 1–0. Clip
- 1st, 3:20 · TOR · even strength. Easton Cowan, snap shot. Assist: Chris Tanev. 2–0. Clip
- 1st, 8:37 · TOR · even strength. Nick Paul, slap shot. Assists: Dennis Raddysh, Gavin McKenna. 3–0. Clip
- 1st, 17:36 · VGK · even strength. Mark Stone, slap shot. Assists: Jack Eichel, Ivan Barbashev. 3–1. Toronto took a hooking minor (McKenna) at 18:17, 41 seconds later. Clip
- 2nd, 1:12 · VGK · even strength. Brett Howden, deflection. Assists: Mitch Marner, William Karlsson. 3–2. Clip
- 2nd, 3:58 · VGK · penalty shot. Jack Eichel, wrist shot, unassisted. 3–3. The penalty shot was awarded for a tripping-on-breakaway call on Morgan Rielly (#44), with Eichel (#9) drawing it. The feed tags the goal "ev" for strength, but it was a penalty shot. Clip
- Shootout · VGK 2, TOR 1. Tomas Connelly (backhand) is credited with the winner. Marchenko scored for Toronto. The feed's shootout log has attempts listed after the winner, so I'm not giving a full attempt-by-attempt order.
There were no goals in the third period or overtime.
The takeaway
- The shot flow flipped after the first. Toronto led 9–7 on shots in the 1st and scored on 3 of them. From the 2nd period through overtime, Vegas outshot Toronto 36–15, including 21–8 in the 2nd. The final was 43–24 for Vegas. The data has no shot-quality measure, so this is shot volume only.
- Goaltending. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 40 of 43 (.930) and took the overtime-loss decision. Even strength was 33/36. Adin Hill stopped 21 of 24 (.875), all three goals at even strength. Toronto's goals all came in the first 8:37, on 9 shots.
- Special teams. Neither team scored on the power play. Toronto was 0/1 and Vegas 0/4. Bobrovsky stopped all 7 shots he faced on those power plays. Toronto took 8 PIM to Vegas's 2, plus the penalty shot.
- Other team totals. Toronto won 59.7% of faceoffs (37/62). Vegas had 27 hits to Toronto's 13. Giveaways were 19 for Toronto and 17 for Vegas. Takeaways were 6 and 3. Blocks were 16 and 15.
- Individuals. Eichel had 6 shots on goal and 26:38 of ice time. Nylander had 5 shots for Toronto with no points. Matthews had an assist and 2 shots in 21:32.
The shot figures are shots on goal as the NHL counts them. For shot-attempt or expected-goals views, use Natural Stat Trick or MoneyPuck, which these tools don't cover.
Sources: NHL game summary data, boxscore, team stats and shots by period, official event summary.