NHL · Wednesday 21 October · T-Mobile Arena
Vegas Golden Knights – Tampa Bay Lightning 2:6: NHL, 21/10/2026
Key facts
Form, table position, scoring and head-to-head in one place
Form: up to the last 5 matches in all competitions, most recent on the left (W = win, D = draw, L = loss). Averages come from the league table; where there is none, from these recent matches.
Form · last 5
League position
Goals per game · season
Match report
The match in a few sentences: score, scorers, table impact
The text is generated automatically from the match data and updates with it.
NHL: Vegas Golden Knights – Tampa Bay Lightning 2:6 (21 October). Tampa Bay Lightning won. Venue: T-Mobile Arena.
By period: 2:2, 0:3, 0:1.
Goals: B. Hagel (Tampa Bay Lightning); I. Barbashev (Vegas Golden Knights); J. Carlson (Tampa Bay Lightning); M. Stone (Vegas Golden Knights); A. Cirelli (Tampa Bay Lightning) ×2; V. Hedman (Tampa Bay Lightning); N. Kucherov (Tampa Bay Lightning).
Table now: Vegas Golden Knights — 3rd, 26 points from 19 matches; Tampa Bay Lightning — 5th, 24 points from 17 matches.
Latvians in this match
Latvian players in this match and their contribution
The data source carries no player nationality, so for club matches we use the desk's list of Latvian players; for national-team matches, every Latvia player.
- 🇱🇻 Zemgus GirgensonsTampa Bay Lightningseason: 1+4=5
Score by period
Goals in each period
OT = overtime, SO = shoot-out.
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | Σ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vegas Golden Knights | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Tampa Bay Lightning | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
Events
Goals with assists and penalties by period
1st period
- 03'pen.
Holding
- 04'
🏒 B. Hagel0:1
assist: C. D'Astous, N. Kucherov · Power-play
- 07'pen.
Unsportsmanlike conduct
- 13'
🏒 I. Barbashev1:1
assist: M. Marner
- 14'
🏒 J. Carlson1:2
- 17'pen.
High sticking
- 18'
2nd period
- 01'pen.
Tripping
- 01'pen.
Interference
- 06'
🏒 A. Cirelli2:3
assist: N. Kucherov
- 10'
🏒 A. Cirelli2:4
- 12'pen.
Holding
- 17'
🏒 V. Hedman2:5
3rd period
- 01'pen.
Cross-checking
- 05'
🏒 N. Kucherov2:6
Game leaders
Top performers in this game
Points (goals + assists)
- 13
- 22
- 31
- 41
- 51
- 61
Skaters
Each skater's contribution in this game
G = goals, A = assists, P = points (G + A), Pen. = penalties. Counted from match events; +/−, shots and time on ice are not available from the data source.
Vegas Golden Knights
| Player | G | A | P | Pen. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I. Barbashev | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| M. Stone | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| B. Bowman | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| M. Marner | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| B. McNabb | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| D. Coghlan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| Player | G | A | P | Pen. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N. Kucherov | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| A. Cirelli | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| B. Hagel | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| J. Carlson | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| V. Hedman | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| C. D'Astous | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| C. Geekie | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| E. Lilleberg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| P. Holmberg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Goaltenders
Shots, saves and goals against
SOG = shots on goal, SV = saves, GA = goals against, SV% = SV / SOG, TOI = time on ice.
Vegas Golden Knights
| Goaltender | SOG | SV | GA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. Hart | 21 | 15 | 6 | 71.4% |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| Goaltender | SOG | SV | GA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Vasilevski(W) | 34 | 32 | 2 | 94.1% |
Team stats
Both teams' numbers side by side
- 34Shots on goal21
- 15Saves32
- 71%Save %94%
- 25Faceoffs won33
- 6Penalty minutes8
- 3Penalties4
- 0Power-play goals1
- 0%Power play %33%
- 66%Penalty kill %100%
- 1Short-handed goals0
Teams in the table
Both teams' positions in the league table
Full table on the competition page. Form: recent matches, most recent on the right.
| # | Team | P | W | OTW | OTL | L | Pts | Form |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 19 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 26 | LLWWW | |
| 5 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 24 | LWWWL |
Form
Team leaders
Each team's best players this season
Points (goals + assists)
Goal scorers
Assists
Recent matches
Both teams' recent results in all competitions
H — home, A — away