01/Line score
02/Scoring summary
1st
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | VAN–BUF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02:01 | BUF | Tage Thompson (21) | Bowen Byram, Owen Power | 0–1 |
| 11:24 | BUF | Ryan McLeod (8) | Alex Tuch, Mattias Samuelsson | 0–2 |
2nd
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | VAN–BUF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:37 | BUF | Alex Tuch (13) | Bowen Byram, Josh Norris | 0–3 |
3rd
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | VAN–BUF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06:13 | BUF | Zach Metsa (1) | Beck Malenstyn, NHL 8478413 | 0–4 |
| 10:17 | VAN | Jake DeBrusk (11) | Kiefer Sherwood, Brock Boeser | 1–4 |
| 15:16 | VAN | Elias Pettersson (11) | Brock Boeser, Filip Hronek | 2–4 |
| 15:55 | VAN | NHL 8483499 (3) | Marcus Pettersson, Linus Karlsson | 3–4 |
| 18:36 | BUF | Josh Doan (13) | unassisted | 3–5 |
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/Vancouver Canucks
| Player | Pos | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | S | H | BLK | FO | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brock Boeser | R | 0 | 2 | 2 | -3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2-1 | 18:34 |
| Filip Hronek | D | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 26:20 |
| Elias Pettersson | C | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9-15 | 18:41 |
| Marcus Pettersson | D | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 18:37 |
| Kiefer Sherwood | L | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | – | 17:37 |
| Jake DeBrusk | L | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | – | 16:58 |
| Linus Karlsson | C | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | – | 15:25 |
| NHL 8483499 | – | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0-1 | 13:09 |
| Zeev Buium | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | 22:50 |
| Evander Kane | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1-0 | 18:11 |
| Tom Willander | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 16:40 |
| Tyler Myers | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 16:26 |
| P.O Joseph | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – | 15:34 |
| Max Sasson | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5-3 | 14:52 |
| NHL 8480144 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3-8 | 13:50 |
| Drew O'Connor | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | 12:23 |
| Aatu Raty | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6-2 | 12:09 |
| Nils Hoglander | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | – | 10:53 |
| Skaters | 3 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 37 | 17 | 8 |
Goaltending
| Player | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thatcher Demko | 19 | 15 | 4 | .789 | 58:51 |
| Kevin Lankinen | – | – | – | – | — |
A greyed line is a goaltender who dressed and did not play.
05/Buffalo Sabres
| Player | Pos | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | S | H | BLK | FO | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowen Byram | D | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – | 24:29 |
| Alex Tuch | R | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1-0 | 19:42 |
| Mattias Samuelsson | D | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | – | 24:36 |
| Owen Power | D | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | 22:09 |
| Tage Thompson | C | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6-3 | 18:37 |
| Josh Doan | R | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | – | 18:11 |
| Ryan McLeod | C | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10-7 | 14:30 |
| Josh Norris | C | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5-8 | 14:28 |
| Zach Metsa | D | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 12:16 |
| Beck Malenstyn | L | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | – | 11:56 |
| NHL 8478413 | – | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0-1 | 10:11 |
| Rasmus Dahlin | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – | 21:49 |
| Peyton Krebs | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4-2 | 17:12 |
| Jason Zucker | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-0 | 14:11 |
| Zach Benson | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | 12:52 |
| Jacob Bryson | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | 12:50 |
| Jack Quinn | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | 11:11 |
| Noah Ostlund | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3-5 | 10:59 |
| Skaters | 5 | 8 | 13 | 8 | 20 | 16 | 14 |
Goaltending
| Player | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen | 37 | 34 | 3 | .919 | 60:00 |
| Colten Ellis | – | – | – | – | — |
A greyed line is a goaltender who dressed and did not play.
06/Penalties
| Per | Time | Team | Player | Infraction | Min | Drawn by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 03:21 | BUF | Josh Norris | Hooking | 2 | Elias Pettersson |
| 1st | 10:49 | BUF | Bowen Byram | Interference | 2 | Brock Boeser |
| 2nd | 05:09 | VAN | Tom Willander | Hooking | 2 | Jason Zucker |
| 3rd | 08:26 | BUF | Tage Thompson | High-sticking (double minor) | 4 | Jake DeBrusk |
07/Game
- Date
- Wed Jan 7, 2026
- Venue
- KeyBank Center, Buffalo
- Season
- 2025-26
- Type
- Regular season
- Decision
- Final
- NHL game id
- 2025020667
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.