Final/Mon Oct 20, 2025/Centre Bell, Montreal/2025-26 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2nd3rdT
0112
1034

02/Scoring summary

6 goals

1st

1 goal
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFMTL
08:29MTLOliver Kapanen (4)Ivan Demidov, Alex Newhook01

2nd

1 goal
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFMTL
06:51BUFJiri Kulich (2)Zach Benson11

3rd

4 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFMTL
02:57MTLJuraj Slafkovský (3)Noah Dobson, Nick Suzuki12
11:38MTLLane Hutson (1)Alex Newhook13
12:30BUFTyson Kozak (1)Jack Quinn, Rasmus Dahlin23
19:29MTLJake Evans (1)Nick Suzuki24

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
BUF
Away / Home
MTL
2
Goals
4
32
Shots on goal
32
19
Missed shots
15
9
Blocked shots
21
73
Shot attempts
59
15
Hits
22
24
Faceoffs won of 55
31
43.6%
Faceoff win %
56.4%
15
Giveaways
11
6
Takeaways
3
3
Penalties
3
6
Penalty minutes
6
1
Power plays
1

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/Buffalo Sabres

Away · 18 skaters, 2 goaltenders
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Rasmus DahlinD011-1040026:52
Zach BensonL011-127100-121:11
Jiri KulichC101002003-718:00
Jack QuinnR0110010013:17
Tyson KozakC101+102206-210:59
Bowen ByramD000+1010123:07
Owen PowerD000-2021021:17
Tage ThompsonC000-223211-520:18
Alex TuchR000-1020020:08
Ryan McLeodC000-1021110-1119:58
Mattias SamuelssonD000-1012219:13
Conor TimminsD000-2000118:47
Josh DoanR0000021115:53
Peyton KrebsC000-101414-513:29
Jason ZuckerL000-2010012:35
Zach MetsaD000+120019:02
NHL 8482623000001106:35
Mason GeertsenL000000005:27
Skaters235632159

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Alex Lyon31283.90357:52
Colten Ellis

A greyed line is a goaltender who dressed and did not play.


05/Montréal Canadiens

Home · 18 skaters, 2 goaltenders
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Nick SuzukiC022+2010112-821:37
Alex NewhookC022+101124-315:44
Noah DobsonD011+1030120:46
Lane HutsonD1010020119:59
Jake EvansC101+1082210-718:16
Juraj SlafkovskýL101+1433117:17
Oliver KapanenC101001102-112:34
Ivan DemidovR0110000012:27
Mike MathesonD000+2002426:30
Jayden StrubleD000+1022119:09
Alexandre CarrierD000+1010518:36
Cole CaufieldR000+1013017:48
Josh AndersonR000+204210-115:55
Brendan GallagherR0000231015:46
Arber XhekajD000-1001013:08
Zack BolducR000-1022011:03
Joe VelenoC000000211-19:27
NHL 8483424000-100012-38:01
Skaters46106322221

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Jakub Dobes32302.93859:57
Sam Montembeault

A greyed line is a goaltender who dressed and did not play.


06/Penalties

6 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
1st16:09MTLJuraj SlafkovskýRoughing2Zach Metsa
1st16:09BUFZach MetsaRoughing2Juraj Slafkovský
2nd10:49MTLBrendan GallagherSlashing2Alex Lyon
3rd08:12BUFZach BensonTripping2Cole Caufield
3rd15:16MTLJuraj SlafkovskýRoughing2Tage Thompson
3rd15:16BUFTage ThompsonRoughing2Juraj Slafkovský

07/Game

Date
Mon Oct 20, 2025
Venue
Centre Bell, Montreal
Season
2025-26
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final
NHL game id
2025020095

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. 2 players are not in the player index and appear by NHL id rather than under an invented name.