In the 2nd period of the Golden Knights’ recent home game against the Boston Bruins, Mitch Marner made history in just his 5th game as a member of the franchise.
With 9:34 left on the clock, Marner hopped over the boards to take his place at the top of the five-forward power play unit. 30 seconds later, Tomas Hertl was hit with a high-stick hell that left a mark on his face, earning the Golden Knights a double minor. So, they now had 90 seconds of 5-on-3 time followed by another two minutes and 30 seconds of regular power play time. Marner stayed on the ice for the ensuing draw to kick off the two-man advantage.
The puck was then frozen 75 seconds later with 15 ticks on the 5-on-3. Marner and the entire five-forward unit remained on the ice. The puck was cleared twice in the next 45 seconds, and Mark Stone changed for William Karlsson. Jack Eichel, Pavel Dorofeyev, Hertl, and Marner remained on the ice, each extending a shift well over two minutes. Goaltender Jeremy Swayman froze a puck a few seconds later, which led to Dorofeyev and Hertl heading to the bench. Eichel would head off a few seconds later.
But Marner remained, now pushing a three-minute long shift with 1:43 left on the power play clock. Another stoppage and a couple of clearances later, and Marner finally headed towards the bench with just a few seconds left on the power play clock. All in all, he racked up a 4:14 shift, which is by far the longest of this season, and tied for the longest in the history of the Vegas Golden Knights. In real time (due to stoppages), the shift lasted seven minutes and 51 seconds.
Oddly enough, Marner’s 4:14 marathon shift ties not one but two Golden Knights for the longest ever. On February 22nd, 2025, both Alex Pietrangelo and Brayden McNabb put forth simultaneous 4:14 shifts at the very end of a game against the Vancouver Canucks. The shift began with the Golden Knights killing a penalty and eventually led to a 6-on-5 situation with Vegas defending a lead.
Both Pietrangelo and McNabb helped successfully kill the entire penalty and then remained on the ice when Tomas Hertl buried a game-sealing empty netter.
There’s just one other shift in Vegas’ 626 regular season games that lasted more than four minutes.
Longest Shifts In VGK History
Mitch Marner – 10/16/25 – 4:14
Brayden McNabb – 2/22/25 – 4:14
Alex Pietrangelo – 2/22/25 – 4:14
Shea Theodore – 9/24/23 – 4:03
Brayden McNabb – 11/11/21 – 3:56
Nicolas Hague – 9/16/18 – 3:50
Jack Eichel – 10/16/25 – 3:47
Chandler Stephenson – 11/5/23 – 3:46
Mark Stone – 11/5/23 – 3:43
Brayden McNabb – 12/12/21 – 3:41
Tomas Nosek – 9/27/19 – 3:40
Alex Pietrangelo – 12/31/22 – 3:40
Shea Theodore – 9/29/23 – 3:35
Brayden McNabb – 11/9/21 – 3:34
Zach Whitecloud – 9/17/19 – 3:32
Eichel’s shift during the same game as Marner’s landed 7th in team history as well, while Hertl and Dorofeyev each checked in at 2:49.
There have been a total of 19 shifts longer than 3:30. Many of the shifts involve some special teams, but there was one instance in which Chandler Stephenson and Mark Stone played 3:46 and 3:43 concurrently, all at 5-on-5.
So, Marner has already etched his name in the VGK record books. Have a feeling this won’t be the only time, though I would guess he never has a longer shift no matter how long he plays here.
*Stick tap to Alex Carter for compiling the data for this article.*
Pistol Pete
Hart signs two years $2m AAV. This should push Schmid to make the most out his being the starter the next month plus. Could this portend the three goalie roster the league was talking about over the summer?
JB
Well, for good or bad, we are stuck with Hills big contract for another five years?
Larry
I will hope for tomorrow afternoon’s game that our Power Play will feature Karly in Stone’s spot and Marner back at the point, and keep Theodore relegated to the bench, to me this is our best option at the moment.
VGK fan
i can definitely agree with you on that, Wild Bill is an excellent passer down below and can retrieve and win puck battles along the boards and Marner is a more capable QB than shea for sure.
Tim
As much as we love Mark Stone his days are numbered. Brings me back to Max Patch every time he got nicked up and walked back to the locker room you knew he would be out for a while and here we go again with Mark Stone. 9.5 million on long term and this year in the playoffs you can’t be over the cap like before. Time to trade for Mackin Celebrini who’s very unhappy in San Jose. Give them our top 3 picks the next 3 years who cares we never keep our draft picks anyway less a few exceptions.
knights fan in minny
Is days are not numbered every other team in the NHL would take him on their team It’s game one tonight go watch baseball you’re clueless on Hockey
Emmanuel
If it wasnt for injuries Stone would he headed to the Hall….
Celebrini had a monster game a couple of nights ago, havent heard he wants to bail.
Hes far better than Bedard (so far), I think SJ would ask for immediate young help.
Would you trade him for a #1/Whitecloud/Dorofeyev? I say yes, but its close, Doros a legit sniper, but SJ would be foolish to do it, theres no one to feed Doro, he would drop to 20-25G/year w/out a good C.
Pistol Pete
I’ll wait for Auston Matthews to walk over here 2028-29 three seasons from now if indeed the Leafs continue to flounder in the playoffs. Celebrini will be an RFA and hideously expensive in both trade and draft capital. Matthews is potentially free assuming he would want to come here which one would think he would what player does not?
JB
Tuff one today vs Florida. Both teams missing some key players. We’ll see ?