01/Line score
02/Scoring summary
1st
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | BUF–DAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:15 | DAL | Mavrik Bourque (6) | Jason Robertson, Miro Heiskanen | 0–1 |
2nd
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | BUF–DAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07:44 | BUF | Josh Doan (11) | Tage Thompson | 1–1 |
| 17:05 | BUF | Bowen Byram (9) | Noah Ostlund, Alex Tuch | 2–1 |
3rd
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | BUF–DAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:21 | BUF | Tage Thompson (19) | Josh Doan, Bowen Byram | 3–1 |
| 11:35 | BUF | Tage Thompson (20) | Noah Ostlund, Owen Power | 4–1 |
03/Team stats
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
| Player | Pos | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | S | H | BLK | FO | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tage Thompson | C | 2 | 1 | 3 | +3 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 5-6 | 18:45 |
| Bowen Byram | D | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | – | 24:36 |
| Josh Doan | R | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | – | 15:27 |
| Noah Ostlund | C | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2-1 | 12:56 |
| Owen Power | D | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – | 24:12 |
| Alex Tuch | R | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1-0 | 18:21 |
| Rasmus Dahlin | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | – | 24:43 |
| Mattias Samuelsson | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | – | 22:56 |
| Ryan McLeod | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10-2 | 16:35 |
| Zach Benson | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | 16:11 |
| Jack Quinn | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 15:21 |
| Peyton Krebs | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0-1 | 13:59 |
| Beck Malenstyn | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | – | 13:36 |
| Josh Norris | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8-5 | 13:07 |
| NHL 8478413 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0-1 | 12:28 |
| Michael Kesselring | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – | 12:04 |
| NHL 8482623 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2-4 | 11:15 |
| Zach Metsa | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 9:28 |
| Skaters | 4 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 31 | 24 | 9 |
Goaltending
| Player | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen | 29 | 28 | 1 | .966 | 60:00 |
| Colten Ellis | – | – | – | – | — |
A greyed line is a goaltender who dressed and did not play.
05/Dallas Stars
| Player | Pos | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | S | H | BLK | FO | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miro Heiskanen | D | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – | 24:50 |
| Jason Robertson | L | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | – | 21:16 |
| Mavrik Bourque | C | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0-4 | 15:17 |
| Esa Lindell | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | 22:58 |
| Thomas Harley | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 22:58 |
| Mikko Rantanen | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 20:36 |
| Wyatt Johnston | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3-4 | 16:59 |
| Ilya Lyubushkin | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | 16:37 |
| Roope Hintz | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8-7 | 16:32 |
| Nils Lundkvist | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | 15:53 |
| Matt Duchene | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1-1 | 15:43 |
| Alexander Petrovic | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | – | 13:27 |
| Sam Steel | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2-5 | 13:17 |
| Oskar Bäck | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 12:54 |
| Colin Blackwell | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3-5 | 12:33 |
| Radek Faksa | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3-2 | 12:33 |
| Jamie Benn | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – | 11:27 |
| Justin Hryckowian | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – | 10:10 |
| Skaters | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 29 | 15 | 12 |
Goaltending
| Player | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Casey DeSmith | 31 | 27 | 4 | .871 | 60:00 |
| Jake Oettinger | – | – | – | – | — |
A greyed line is a goaltender who dressed and did not play.
06/Penalties
| Per | Time | Team | Player | Infraction | Min | Drawn by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 00:38 | DAL | Radek Faksa | High-sticking | 2 | NHL 8482623 |
| 2nd | 01:41 | DAL | Justin Hryckowian | Tripping | 2 | Owen Power |
| 2nd | 04:44 | BUF | Josh Doan | Tripping | 2 | Thomas Harley |
| 3rd | 03:59 | BUF | Tage Thompson | Hooking | 2 | Jason Robertson |
07/Game
- Date
- Thu Jan 1, 2026
- Venue
- American Airlines Center, Dallas
- Season
- 2025-26
- Type
- Regular season
- Decision
- Final
- NHL game id
- 2025020628
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.