BUFFALO SABRES
Away · Win
3
Final / OT/Wed Dec 24, 2025/Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa/2025-26 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2nd3rdOTT
11013
11002

02/Scoring summary

5 goals

1st

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFOTT
15:22BUFBowen Byram (7)NHL 8478413, NHL 848262310
17:13OTTRidly Greig (3)Claude Giroux11

2nd

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFOTT
06:11BUFNoah Ostlund (6)Bowen Byram, Alex Tuch21
09:27OTTTim Stützle (18)Drake Batherson, Dylan Cozens22

OT

1 goal
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFOTT
00:31BUFBowen Byram (8)Ryan McLeod, Mattias Samuelsson32

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
BUF
Away / Home
OTT
3
Goals
2
25
Shots on goal
26
7
Missed shots
19
16
Blocked shots
9
41
Shot attempts
63
15
Hits
19
28
Faceoffs won of 64
36
43.8%
Faceoff win %
56.3%
10
Giveaways
11
4
Takeaways
5
4
Penalties
2
8
Penalty minutes
4
1
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
Bowen ByramD213+3020124:18
Mattias SamuelssonD0110021126:39
Alex TuchR011+223120-218:01
Ryan McLeodC011+101004-816:36
Noah OstlundC101+102001-215:01
NHL 8478413011+104100-213:36
NHL 8482623011+101206-613:13
Owen PowerD0000012125:10
Rasmus DahlinD000-1010122:48
Tage ThompsonC000-102026-616:47
Beck MalenstynL000+1003216:11
Josh NorrisC000+100009-814:00
Peyton KrebsC000-100312-214:00
Josh DoanR000-1010213:28
Michael KesselringD0000420212:39
Zach BensonL0000220012:24
Jack QuinnR0000011112:21
Zach MetsaD000+200108:38
Skaters3698251516

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Alex Lyon26242.92360:31
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen

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


05/Ottawa Senators

Home · 18 skaters, 2 goaltenders
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Tim StützleC101-203217-421:41
Drake BathersonR0110040020:42
Dylan CozensC0110021113-919:32
Claude GirouxR011+100104-216:10
Ridly GreigC101+101113-515:11
Thomas ChabotD000-2011323:23
Jake SandersonD0000010122:25
Jordan SpenceD000-2001019:33
Artem ZubD0000002119:04
Brady TkachukL000-226205-518:42
Fabian ZetterlundL000-1022118:03
Nick JensenD0000000017:47
Michael AmadioR000+1020016:20
David PerronL0000021015:21
Nikolas MatinpaloD0000220015:17
Nick CousinsC000-100201-08:27
NHL 8483676000-100303-37:46
Kurtis MacDermidL000-100002:40
Skaters235426199

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Linus Ullmark25223.88060:31
Leevi Meriläinen

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


06/Penalties

6 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
1st18:12BUFMichael KesselringHigh-sticking2Brady Tkachuk
1st18:12OTTBrady TkachukRoughing2Michael Kesselring
2nd02:36OTTNikolas MatinpaloInterference2NHL 8482623
2nd09:13BUFMichael KesselringTripping2Fabian Zetterlund
2nd13:51BUFZach BensonHigh-sticking2Drake Batherson
3rd18:09BUFAlex TuchHooking2David Perron

07/Game

Date
Wed Dec 24, 2025
Venue
Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa
Season
2025-26
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final / OT
NHL game id
2025020578

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