5
Final/Fri Nov 28, 2025/KeyBank Center, Buffalo/2025-26 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2nd3rdT
1135
0000

02/Scoring summary

5 goals

1st

1 goal
TimeTeamGoalAssistsNJDBUF
12:07NJDNico Hischier (9)Timo Meier10

2nd

1 goal
TimeTeamGoalAssistsNJDBUF
07:45NJDArseny Gritsyuk (5)Ondrej Palat, Dawson Mercer20

3rd

3 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsNJDBUF
01:39NJDBrenden Dillon (3)Connor Brown, Paul Cotter30
05:22NJDPaul Cotter (2)Brenden Dillon40
16:49NJDArseny Gritsyuk (6)Ondrej Palat50

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
NJD
Away / Home
BUF
5
Goals
0
23
Shots on goal
42
6
Missed shots
22
20
Blocked shots
9
38
Shot attempts
88
20
Hits
24
32
Faceoffs won of 57
25
56.1%
Faceoff win %
43.9%
19
Giveaways
19
8
Takeaways
6
3
Penalties
2
9
Penalty minutes
7
1
Power plays
2

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 Jersey Devils

Away · 17 skaters, 1 goaltender
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Brenden DillonD112221
Ondrej PalatL022012
Paul CotterL112220
Arseny GritsyukR202600
Connor BrownR011103
Timo MeierR0110421-1
Nico HischierC10121010-5
Dawson MercerC0113017-8
Dougie HamiltonD000221
Stefan NoesenR0000000-1
Luke GlendeningC0000026-4
Juho LammikkoC0000120-1
Jonas SiegenthalerD000070
Jesper BrattL000200
Cody GlassC0002008-5
Luke HughesD000002
Simon NemecD000102
Skaters5712232018

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Jake Allen424201.000

05/Buffalo Sabres

Home · 18 skaters, 1 goaltender
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Jason ZuckerL0004012-1
Alex TuchR0005311-1
NHL 8478413000020
Beck MalenstynL000331
Tage ThompsonC0003202-8
Conor TimminsD000111
Jacob BrysonD000100
Ryan McLeodC0002017-7
Mattias SamuelssonD000431
Rasmus DahlinD000530
Peyton KrebsC0002104-7
Bowen ByramD000100
Jack QuinnR000111
Josh DoanR000310
Owen PowerD000500
Tyson KozakC0001327-3
Noah OstlundC0000002-5
Zach BensonL000110
Skaters00042249

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Alex Lyon23185.783

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

PlayerTOIPIM+/-
NHL 8478841

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

5 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
1st02:24NJDStefan NoesenFighting5Tage Thompson
1st02:24BUFTage ThompsonFighting5Stefan Noesen
2nd08:01NJDCody GlassHooking2Noah Ostlund
2nd13:39BUFJack QuinnHolding2Jesper Bratt
2nd15:13NJDArseny GritsyukGoaltender interference2Alex Lyon

08/Game

Date
Fri Nov 28, 2025
Venue
KeyBank Center, Buffalo
Season
2025-26
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final
NHL game id
2025020379

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. No box score is on file for this game, so time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus are blank throughout. The counting columns are unaffected: they are read off the play-by-play. 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. 2 players are not in the player index and appear by NHL id rather than under an invented name.