UTA @ VGK
NHL
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SOG UTA 33 · 31 VGK
2–4
Final
Statlab take
baseline_gbm
Based on last 10 (VGK) / 10 (UTA) games this season
UTA
away
home
VGK
42%
58%
baseline_gbm trained on ~5,000 NHL games (54.8% test accuracy). NHL is high-variance — even good models hover near 60%. Treat as a soft lean, not a lock.
Season comparison
H2H this season: 1-2UTA
Away
Metric
VGK
Home
43-39
Record
39-43
52%
Win %
48%
3.3
GF/G
3.2
2.9
GA/G
3.0
LWLLW
L5
WWWLW
Team totals
UTA
VGK
33
Shots
31
31
Hits
51
19
Blocks
17
4
Takeaways
4
19
Giveaways
16
8
PIM
8
Box score
Forwards
| Player | G | A | P | SOG | Hit | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K Stenlund | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| L Cooley | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| L Crouse | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | -2 |
| N Schmaltz | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | -3 |
| C Keller | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | -3 |
| D Guenther | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | -1 |
Defense
| Player | G | A | +/- | BLK | Hit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M Sergachev | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 0 |
| N Schmidt | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| M Weegar | 0 | 0 | -1 | 4 | 0 |
| J Marino | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| I Cole | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| S Durzi | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Goalie
| Player | Saves | Shots | SV% | GA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| V Vanecek | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| K Vejmelka | 27 | 30 | 0.900 | 3 |
Statlab projections
| # | Player | Pos | Team | G | A | SOG | Hit | DK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J Eichel | forw | VGK vs WPG | 0.41 | 0.62 | 2.9 | 0.5 | 10.9 |
| 2 | M Marner | forw | VGK vs WPG | 0.38 | 0.58 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 10.0 |
| 3 | M Stone | forw | VGK vs WPG | 0.35 | 0.50 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 8.9 |
| 4 | P Dorofeyev | forw | VGK vs WPG | 0.31 | 0.42 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 8.6 |
| 5 | R Andersson | defe | VGK vs WPG | 0.13 | 0.32 | 1.9 | 7.6 | |
| 6 | I Barbashev | forw | VGK vs WPG | 0.26 | 0.36 | 2.1 | 1.7 | 7.1 |
| 7 | C Hart | goal | VGK vs WPG | 6.9 | ||||
| 8 | N Hanifin | defe | VGK vs WPG | 0.09 | 0.31 | 1.6 | 6.4 | |
| 9 | S Theodore | defe | VGK vs WPG | 0.08 | 0.29 | 1.5 | 5.8 | |
| 10 | T Hertl | forw | VGK vs WPG | 0.18 | 0.25 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 5.7 |
| 11 | B McNabb | defe | VGK vs WPG | 0.06 | 0.22 | 1.3 | 5.6 | |
| 12 | J Lauzon | defe | VGK vs WPG | 0.08 | 0.22 | 1.3 | 5.1 | |
| 13 | B Howden | forw | VGK vs WPG | 0.15 | 0.22 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 4.6 |
| 14 | R Smith | forw | VGK vs WPG | 0.15 | 0.17 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 4.2 |
| 15 | C Sissons | forw | VGK vs WPG | 0.11 | 0.19 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 3.7 |
| 16 | N Dowd | forw | VGK vs WPG | 0.10 | 0.15 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 3.3 |
| 17 | K Korczak | defe | VGK vs WPG | 0.03 | 0.08 | 0.7 | 3.0 | |
| 18 | K Kolesar | forw | VGK vs WPG | 0.07 | 0.12 | 1.0 | 2.2 | 2.7 |
| 19 | C Smith | forw | VGK vs WPG | 0.08 | 0.11 | 0.9 | 2.8 | 2.6 |
Trained on ~126k player-game rows since 2021. NHL single-game variance is high — these are central-tendency point estimates, not floor/ceiling ranges.