01/Line score
The shootout column is the single goal the winner is credited with in the final score, not the number of attempts converted. Shootout attempts do not appear on any skater's goal total.
02/Scoring summary
1st
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | NYI–BUF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15:59 | BUF | NHL 8475236 (3) | Jeff Skinner, NHL 8479465 | 0–1 |
| 16:25 | NYI | Anthony Beauvillier (14) | NHL 8474573, Brock Nelson | 1–1 |
2nd
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | NYI–BUF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03:44 | NYI | Ryan Pulock (2) | NHL 8473504, Ross Johnston | 2–1 |
| 09:16 | NYI | NHL 8473504 (4) | unassisted | 3–1 |
| 17:37 | BUF | NHL 8478075 (4) | Colin Miller, Victor Olofsson | 3–2 |
3rd
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | NYI–BUF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:56 | BUF | NHL 8478075 (5) | Victor Olofsson | 3–3 |
Shootout
| Team | Scored on the attempt | Goaltender |
|---|---|---|
| BUF | NHL 8478075 | Ilya Sorokin |
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/New York Islanders
| Player | Pos | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | S | H | BLK | FO | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NHL 8473504 | – | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | — | 2 | 3 | 1 | – | — |
| Ryan Pulock | D | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | – | 23:19 |
| Brock Nelson | C | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6-7 | 18:05 |
| Anthony Beauvillier | L | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | – | 17:28 |
| Ross Johnston | L | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | – | 11:29 |
| NHL 8474573 | – | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | — |
| Adam Pelech | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – | 24:00 |
| Nick Leddy | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | – | 23:30 |
| Scott Mayfield | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 20:54 |
| Jean-Gabriel Pageau | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13-5 | 16:12 |
| Noah Dobson | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – | 15:59 |
| Kyle Palmieri | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | – | 15:47 |
| Jordan Eberle | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – | 15:15 |
| Casey Cizikas | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6-2 | 14:20 |
| NHL 8471233 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8-5 | — |
| NHL 8472382 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 4 | 2 | 3 | – | — |
| NHL 8477936 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1-0 | — |
| NHL 8480789 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 4 | 1 | 0 | – | — |
| Skaters | 3 | 4 | 7 | – | 48 | 19 | 11 |
Goaltending
| Player | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ilya Sorokin | 31 | 28 | 3 | .903 | 65:00 |
05/Buffalo Sabres
| Player | Pos | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | S | H | BLK | FO | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victor Olofsson | L | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | – | 18:53 |
| NHL 8478075 | – | 2 | 0 | 2 | — | — | 3 | 2 | 1 | – | — |
| Colin Miller | D | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 15:36 |
| Jeff Skinner | L | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | 11:35 |
| NHL 8475236 | – | 1 | 0 | 1 | — | — | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8-6 | — |
| NHL 8479465 | – | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 0 | 1 | – | — |
| Rasmus Dahlin | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | 23:19 |
| Mattias Samuelsson | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | – | 21:43 |
| Sam Reinhart | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3-11 | 21:08 |
| Casey Mittelstadt | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4-8 | 19:43 |
| Henri Jokiharju | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – | 18:55 |
| Jacob Bryson | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 17:30 |
| Tage Thompson | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 17:28 |
| Dylan Cozens | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1-1 | 12:41 |
| NHL 8475772 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2-8 | — |
| NHL 8477499 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 4 | 1 | – | — |
| NHL 8481626 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1-0 | — |
| Skaters | 3 | 5 | 8 | – | 31 | 16 | 13 |
Goaltending
| Player | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NHL 8475920 | 48 | 45 | 3 | .938 | — |
One line here is not in the box score feed's dressed list for this game. Shots against, saves and goals against are counted off the play-by-play, which names the goaltender who faced every shot and every goal; time on ice is blank on those lines, because only the box score carries it.
06/Club not resolved
| Player | TOI | PIM | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|
| NHL 8479335 | — | — | — |
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 | 18:36 | BUF | Victor Olofsson | Holding the stick | 2 | NHL 8471233 |
| 2nd | 07:19 | NYI | Jordan Eberle | Slashing | 2 | NHL 8477499 |
08/Game
- Date
- Tue May 4, 2021
- Venue
- KeyBank Center, Buffalo
- Season
- 2020-21
- Type
- Regular season
- Decision
- Final / SO
- NHL game id
- 2020020824
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 37 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. One goaltender is missing from that list, and his line is built from the play-by-play instead: every shot and every goal names the goaltender who faced it, so shots against, saves and goals against are counted the same way the skater columns are. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus stay blank for him, because only the box score carries those. 14 players are not in the player index and appear by NHL id rather than under an invented name.