01/Line score
02/Scoring summary
1st
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | PIT–BUF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30 | PIT | Jared McCann (12) | Mike Matheson, Cody Ceci | 1–0 |
2nd
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | PIT–BUF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05:57 | PIT | Evan Rodrigues (6) | Teddy Blueger | 2–0 |
| 06:41 | BUF | Tage Thompson (6) | unassisted | 2–1 |
| 12:15 | PIT | Bryan Rust (17) | Sidney Crosby, Jake Guentzel | 3–1 |
3rd
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | PIT–BUF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:44 | BUF | Casey Mittelstadt (8) | NHL 8477499, Sam Reinhart | 3–2 |
03/Team stats
Shots on goal include goals, the way the league counts them. Shot attempts are shots on goal plus misses plus attempts that were blocked. A club's blocked shots are the blocks it made, credited to the blocker's club: a shot that deflects off one of the shooter's own teammates is credited to neither side, so this can run under the raw count of blocked shots in the game. Penalty minutes are the durations the feed publishes, plus the ten minute misconduct that automatically rides with a match penalty.
Power plays are opportunities, and they are derived rather than stored. The feed carries no strength on a goal and no end time on a penalty, so the penalty record is run forward to find the seconds a club really had a skater more than its opponent: coincidental penalties offset, a double minor counts twice, a misconduct costs no skater, and a call at the final horn counts for nothing. Power play time is not printed, it would rest on the same reconstruction with nothing published to check it against.
04/Pittsburgh Penguins
| Player | Pos | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | S | H | BLK | FO | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sidney Crosby | C | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12-12 | 21:03 |
| Bryan Rust | R | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | – | 20:50 |
| Cody Ceci | D | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – | 19:34 |
| Mike Matheson | D | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | – | 19:03 |
| Teddy Blueger | C | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3-4 | 16:15 |
| Evan Rodrigues | C | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | – | 16:09 |
| Jared McCann | L | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0-1 | 15:22 |
| Jake Guentzel | C | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | — |
| Kris Letang | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | 24:20 |
| Brian Dumoulin | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | 20:40 |
| Zachary Aston-Reese | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 15:30 |
| Marcus Pettersson | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 15:26 |
| Jason Zucker | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 13:59 |
| Mark Jankowski | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1-3 | 8:10 |
| NHL 8470604 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5-4 | — |
| NHL 8474098 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | — |
| NHL 8482241 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | — |
| Skaters | 3 | 5 | 8 | – | 41 | 13 | 12 |
Goaltending
| Player | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tristan Jarry | 30 | 28 | 2 | .933 | 59:53 |
05/Buffalo Sabres
| Player | Pos | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | S | H | BLK | FO | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Reinhart | C | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9-4 | 17:35 |
| Casey Mittelstadt | C | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6-5 | 17:26 |
| Tage Thompson | C | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | – | 14:24 |
| NHL 8477499 | – | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 3 | 3 | – | — |
| Rasmus Dahlin | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | – | 24:02 |
| Henri Jokiharju | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – | 21:08 |
| Jacob Bryson | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 20:02 |
| Colin Miller | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | – | 17:54 |
| Victor Olofsson | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | 17:01 |
| Jeff Skinner | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1-0 | 16:40 |
| Dylan Cozens | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1-7 | 16:06 |
| NHL 8475236 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6-5 | — |
| NHL 8475625 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | — |
| NHL 8476356 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 2 | – | — |
| NHL 8476396 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1-0 | — |
| NHL 8478075 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | — |
| NHL 8479335 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | — |
| NHL 8481626 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | — |
| Skaters | 2 | 2 | 4 | – | 30 | 12 | 12 |
Goaltending
| Player | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NHL 8474682 | 41 | 38 | 3 | .927 | — |
06/Club not resolved
| Player | TOI | PIM | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Marino | — | — | — |
These players dressed for this game but neither the play-by-play nor the box score feed attributes them to a club, so they are printed apart rather than guessed at.
07/Penalties
| Per | Time | Team | Player | Infraction | Min | Drawn by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 03:31 | BUF | NHL 8481626 | Hooking | 2 | Evan Rodrigues |
| 2nd | 10:30 | BUF | NHL 8478075 | High-sticking | 2 | John Marino |
| 3rd | 10:54 | PIT | Mark Jankowski | Holding | 2 | Dylan Cozens |
08/Game
- Date
- Sat Apr 17, 2021
- Venue
- KeyBank Center, Buffalo
- Season
- 2020-21
- Type
- Regular season
- Decision
- Final
- NHL game id
- 2020020690
Goals, assists, shots, hits, blocks and faceoffs are counted from the play-by-play for this game. Shots on goal include goals, the way the league counts them, so a club's skater shot total is the shot total the opposing goaltender faced. The skater line does not include a goaltender's own assists. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus come from the box score. Save percentage is saves over shots faced and excludes any empty-net goal, which the feed does not credit to a goaltender. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus are on file for 24 of the 38 players on this page. The dressed list itself is short: the box score feed names 38 players for this game, where a club normally dresses twenty and a full game is forty. The names it leaves out cannot be recovered from it, and this page does not invent them. 12 players are not in the player index and appear by NHL id rather than under an invented name.