Final (OT) · All games
UTA 4 – 5 VGK
Utah Mammoth at Vegas Golden Knights. Final. The model's pre-game price is kept below as recorded.
- Model
- VGK 62%
- Expected score
- 2.7 – 3.4
- Market
- —
- Venue
- T-Mobile Arena
Pre-game price
What the model says
Lineups not yet published: each club's usual lineup assumed. Starting goalie not confirmed: goaltending held at league average.
Source: CapOrCup game model (derived from club ratings, rest and starters)
Starters · depth chart 2026-09-28
In goal
The league names no starter before puck drop. First on each club's depth chart, from the licensed feed, is the expected starter.
Karel Vejmelka
Carter Hart
Projected lineups · Sportradar NHL API v7, team depth charts · as of 2026-09-28
Expected lines
What each club intends per the feed's depth chart, with each forward's shooter rating (Elo, against the goalies faced last season). A listing is the club's statement, not a game sheet.
Utah Mammoth
L1 Clayton Keller (below the league middle) · Nick Schmaltz (above the league middle) · Daniil But (below the league middle)
L2 Anders Lee (bottom tenth of the league) · Logan Cooley (top tenth of the league) · Dylan Guenther (top tenth of the league)
L3 Lawson Crouse (above the league middle) · Vincent Trocheck (below the league middle) · Kailer Yamamoto (top tenth of the league)
D1 Mikhail Sergachev (above the league middle) · MacKenzie Weegar (below the league middle)
D2 Nate Schmidt (above the league middle) · John Marino (below the league middle)
PP1 Dylan Guenther (top tenth of the league) · Logan Cooley (top tenth of the league) · Nick Schmaltz (above the league middle) · Clayton Keller (below the league middle) · Mikhail Sergachev (above the league middle)
Vegas Golden Knights
L1 Ivan Barbashev (above the league middle) · Jack Eichel (above the league middle) · Mark Stone (above the league middle)
L2 Brett Howden (above the league middle) · William Karlsson · Mitch Marner (top tenth of the league)
L3 Trevor Connelly · Tomas Hertl (bottom tenth of the league) · Victor Olofsson (below the league middle)
D1 Brayden McNabb (above the league middle) · Shea Theodore (above the league middle)
D2 Parker Wotherspoon (above the league middle) · Rasmus Andersson (top tenth of the league)
PP1 Mark Stone (above the league middle) · Tomas Hertl (bottom tenth of the league) · Mitch Marner (top tenth of the league) · Jack Eichel (above the league middle) · Shea Theodore (above the league middle)
Injury listings · as of 2026-09-29
Who the clubs list as out
Club-announced listings relayed by the licensed feed. No cause is inferred; Day To Day players are shown but not counted as out.
Utah Mammoth
Nobody listed.
Vegas Golden Knights
Nobody listed.
Goals · the league's own clips
9 goals
Each goal links to the league's clip on its own site. Nothing is rehosted.
VGK · P1 09:38 · V. Olofsson (S. Theodore) · clip
UTA · P1 18:21 · Z. Jones (K. Stenlund) · PP · clip
UTA · P1 19:01 · L. O'Brien (Y. Borikov, K. Stenlund) · clip
UTA · P2 14:06 · A. Duda (J. McBain, K. Yamamoto) · clip
VGK · P3 05:19 · J. Lauzon (N. Hanifin, N. Dowd) · clip
VGK · P3 13:06 · M. Stone (J. Eichel, S. Theodore) · PP · clip
UTA · P3 18:29 · T. Lavoie (K. Stenlund, Z. Jones) · clip
Replay review once the condensed game has been read · Ledger