01/Line score
02/Scoring summary
2nd
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | MTL–BUF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01:13 | MTL | Cole Caufield (29) | Patrik Laine, Nick Suzuki | 1–0 |
| 06:04 | BUF | Alex Tuch (22) | Jacob Bryson | 1–1 |
| 07:33 | BUF | Jiri Kulich (12) | Rasmus Dahlin, JJ Peterka | 1–2 |
| 13:33 | MTL | Josh Anderson (10) | Christian Dvorak, Lane Hutson | 2–2 |
| 19:57 | MTL | Alex Newhook (12) | Mike Matheson, Lane Hutson | 3–2 |
3rd
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | MTL–BUF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18:22 | MTL | Jake Evans (12) | Christian Dvorak | 4–2 |
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/Montréal Canadiens
| Player | Pos | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | S | H | BLK | FO | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Dvorak | C | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9-8 | 16:27 |
| Lane Hutson | D | 0 | 2 | 2 | — | — | 2 | 0 | 2 | – | — |
| Mike Matheson | D | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | – | 26:34 |
| Nick Suzuki | C | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12-9 | 20:29 |
| Cole Caufield | R | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1-0 | 17:58 |
| Josh Anderson | R | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | 14:41 |
| Patrik Laine | R | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – | 11:25 |
| Jake Evans | C | 1 | 0 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11-8 | — |
| Alex Newhook | C | 1 | 0 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3-2 | — |
| Alexandre Carrier | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – | 20:21 |
| Jayden Struble | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | – | 17:17 |
| NHL 8475233 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 3 | – | — |
| Brendan Gallagher | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 4 | 2 | 1 | – | — |
| Joel Armia | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | — |
| Emil Heineman | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | — |
| Arber Xhekaj | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 2 | 2 | – | — |
| NHL 8483424 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3-1 | — |
| Juraj Slafkovský | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 5 | 1 | – | — |
| Skaters | 4 | 7 | 11 | – | 29 | 27 | 28 |
Goaltending
| Player | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jakub Dobes | 25 | 23 | 2 | .920 | — |
05/Buffalo Sabres
| Player | Pos | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | S | H | BLK | FO | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rasmus Dahlin | D | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | – | 24:44 |
| Alex Tuch | R | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1-0 | 20:22 |
| JJ Peterka | R | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | 20:01 |
| Jacob Bryson | D | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 15:34 |
| Jiri Kulich | C | 1 | 0 | 1 | — | — | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2-8 | — |
| Bowen Byram | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – | 22:07 |
| Tage Thompson | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11-8 | 20:17 |
| Owen Power | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – | 19:30 |
| Dylan Cozens | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 8-8 | 17:44 |
| Mattias Samuelsson | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 16:55 |
| Ryan McLeod | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3-13 | 16:35 |
| Jack Quinn | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 14:51 |
| Connor Clifton | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | – | 12:18 |
| Peyton Krebs | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3-2 | 12:09 |
| Zach Benson | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 10:32 |
| Beck Malenstyn | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | 8:51 |
| NHL 8478413 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 3 | 0 | – | — |
| Skaters | 2 | 3 | 5 | – | 25 | 28 | 17 |
Goaltending
| Player | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen | 28 | 25 | 3 | .893 | 58:41 |
06/Club not resolved
| Player | TOI | PIM | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|
| NHL 8478502 | — | — | — |
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 | 06:32 | BUF | Tage Thompson | Interference | 2 | NHL 8483424 |
| 1st | 18:28 | MTL | Alexandre Carrier | Hooking | 2 | Rasmus Dahlin |
| 2nd | 00:39 | BUF | Bowen Byram | Slashing | 2 | Cole Caufield |
| 2nd | 14:35 | MTL | Alexandre Carrier | High-sticking | 2 | JJ Peterka |
| 2nd | 14:52 | BUF | JJ Peterka | Interference | 2 | Mike Matheson |
| 2nd | 19:24 | MTL | Jayden Struble | Roughing | 2 | Beck Malenstyn |
| 2nd | 19:24 | BUF | Beck Malenstyn | Goaltender interference | 2 | Jakub Dobes |
| 3rd | 12:08 | BUF | NHL 8478413 | Roughing | 2 | Arber Xhekaj |
| 3rd | 12:08 | MTL | Arber Xhekaj | Roughing | 2 | NHL 8478413 |
| 3rd | 19:02 | MTL | Jayden Struble | Roughing | 2 | Dylan Cozens |
| 3rd | 19:02 | BUF | NHL 8478413 | Cross-checking | 2 | Jakub Dobes |
| 3rd | 19:02 | BUF | Dylan Cozens | Roughing | 2 | Jayden Struble |
| 3rd | 19:02 | BUF | JJ Peterka | Misconduct | 10 | – |
08/Game
- Date
- Sun Mar 2, 2025
- Venue
- KeyBank Center, Buffalo
- Season
- 2024-25
- Type
- Regular season
- Decision
- Final
- NHL game id
- 2024020953
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. 4 players are not in the player index and appear by NHL id rather than under an invented name.