BUFFALO SABRES
Home · Win
3
Final / SO/Sat Dec 20, 2025/KeyBank Center, Buffalo/2025-26 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2nd3rdOTSOT
011002
110013

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

4 goals

1st

1 goal
TimeTeamGoalAssistsNYIBUF
01:47BUFRasmus Dahlin (4)Alex Lyon01

2nd

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsNYIBUF
08:55BUFTage Thompson (18)Josh Doan, Peyton Krebs02
19:37NYIMathew Barzal (10)Anders Lee, Simon Holmstrom12

3rd

1 goal
TimeTeamGoalAssistsNYIBUF
19:31NYIEmil Heineman (12)Mathew Barzal, Matthew Schaefer22

Shootout

3 converted

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
NYI
Away / Home
BUF
2
Goals
3
34
Shots on goal
32
19
Missed shots
15
8
Blocked shots
11
66
Shot attempts
56
25
Hits
18
33
Faceoffs won of 60
27
55.0%
Faceoff win %
45.0%
21
Giveaways
18
4
Takeaways
5
4
Penalties
3
8
Penalty minutes
6
3
Power plays
4

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

Away · 18 skaters, 2 goaltenders
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Mathew BarzalC112+124017-623:33
Matthew SchaeferD011-1031123:36
Anders LeeL011+100101-120:04
Emil HeinemanL101-10104118:49
Simon HolmstromR011+1020017:49
Adam PelechD000+1214026:25
Tony DeAngeloD0000032022:55
Ryan PulockD000-1022120:18
Scott MayfieldD000+1012117:48
Jonathan DrouinL000-100005-117:16
Casey CizikasC000000225-916:18
Jean-Gabriel PageauC000-123109-415:34
Kyle MacLeanC0000001113:55
NHL 8484221000002002-412:57
Maxim TsyplakovR000001103-012:08
NHL 84835530000013011:14
Anthony DuclairL000000001-210:48
Marshall WarrenD000021109:51
Skaters246834258

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
David Rittich32302.93862:39
Ilya Sorokin

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


05/Buffalo Sabres

Home · 18 skaters, 2 goaltenders
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Rasmus DahlinD101+1051025:52
Tage ThompsonC1010040012-722:48
Josh DoanR0110020019:09
Peyton KrebsC011000312-313:29
Mattias SamuelssonD000+1001124:12
Bowen ByramD0000013122:49
Alex TuchR000025111-221:06
Josh NorrisC000002003-619:39
Zach BensonL0000020018:25
Michael KesselringD000-1221317:28
Ryan McLeodC000000102-1317:06
Owen PowerD000-1020217:05
Jack QuinnR0000020015:24
Noah OstlundC000001003-014:42
Zach MetsaD0000010014:05
NHL 8482623000001113-210:20
NHL 8478413000001101-09:33
Beck MalenstynL000021518:55
Skaters2246321811

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Alex Lyon34322.94164:55
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen

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


06/Penalties

7 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
1st01:27NYIMathew BarzalTripping2Jack Quinn
1st02:43BUFBeck MalenstynHooking2Mathew Barzal
1st05:01NYIAdam PelechDelay of game (puck over the glass)2
3rd04:24NYIJean-Gabriel PageauTripping2Bowen Byram
3rd09:41NYIMarshall WarrenDelay of game (puck over the glass)2
3rd18:33BUFMichael KesselringSlashing2Anders Lee
OT04:43BUFAlex TuchTripping2Matthew Schaefer

07/Game

Date
Sat Dec 20, 2025
Venue
KeyBank Center, Buffalo
Season
2025-26
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final / SO
NHL game id
2025020553

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