BUFFALO SABRES
Away · Win
3
Final/Fri Dec 12, 2025/Rogers Arena, Vancouver/2025-26 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2ndT
123
112

02/Scoring summary

5 goals

1st

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFVAN
07:36BUFRasmus Dahlin (3)Ryan McLeod, Jack Quinn10
19:49VANKiefer Sherwood (13)Conor Garland, Quinn Hughes11

2nd

3 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFVAN
06:15VANMax Sasson (6)Jake DeBrusk, Elias Pettersson12
09:12BUFTage Thompson (15)Rasmus Dahlin22
14:46BUFZach Benson (1)Josh Doan, Tage Thompson32

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
BUF
Away / Home
VAN
3
Goals
2
15
Shots on goal
32
13
Missed shots
24
26
Blocked shots
7
37
Shot attempts
84
13
Hits
22
17
Faceoffs won of 42
25
40.5%
Faceoff win %
59.5%
17
Giveaways
14
8
Takeaways
4
5
Penalties
4
10
Penalty minutes
8
2
Power plays
3

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 DahlinD112+2031324:51
Tage ThompsonC112+105023-819:06
Ryan McLeodC011+100005-1020:52
Josh DoanR011+1010018:45
Zach BensonL101+1210016:13
Jack QuinnR011+142010-115:39
Mattias SamuelssonD000+1001126:32
Conor TimminsD0000001521:27
Bowen ByramD000-1000120:47
Owen PowerD0000010319:46
Peyton KrebsC000+101113-318:43
Tyson KozakC000001354-216:45
NHL 8478413000020120-116:01
Beck MalenstynL000-1204112:48
NHL 8482765000000008:42
NHL 8482623000-100002-06:21
NHL 8482479000-100105:12
Jacob BrysonD000000015:02
Skaters35810151326

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Alex Lyon32302.93859:56
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen

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


05/Vancouver Canucks

Home · 18 skaters, 2 goaltenders
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Quinn HughesD011-1030030:03
Conor GarlandR011-1021020:41
Kiefer SherwoodL101-1022019:24
Jake DeBruskL011+104101-116:16
Max SassonC101+105003-414:46
Elias PetterssonD011+1014013:11
Filip HronekD0000223123:33
Brock BoeserR000-101012-120:26
Tyler MyersD0000011220:06
Evander KaneL000-104200-117:29
Marcus PetterssonD000-1011117:25
NHL 8480144000-1010011-314:07
Nils HoglanderL0000012013:11
Drew O'ConnorL000-122003-312:56
Tom WillanderD000-1210212:04
Aatu RatyC000000305-311:40
Linus KarlssonC000+1012010:51
Arshdeep BainsL000020000-19:20
Skaters246832227

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Thatcher Demko15123.80057:54
Kevin Lankinen

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


06/Penalties

9 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
1st13:40VANArshdeep BainsInterference2Peyton Krebs
1st19:17BUFJack QuinnHigh-sticking2Tom Willander
1st19:17VANTom WillanderHigh-sticking2Jack Quinn
1st19:17BUFJack QuinnHigh-sticking2Tom Willander
2nd14:09VANFilip HronekRoughing (removing an opponent’s helmet)2NHL 8482765
2nd15:44VANDrew O'ConnorRoughing2Zach Benson
2nd15:44BUFZach BensonRoughing2Kiefer Sherwood
2nd19:13BUFNHL 8478413Tripping2Conor Garland
3rd06:31BUFBeck MalenstynSlashing2Nils Hoglander

07/Game

Date
Fri Dec 12, 2025
Venue
Rogers Arena, Vancouver
Season
2025-26
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final
NHL game id
2025020492

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