01/Line score
02/Scoring summary
1st
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | MTL–BUF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03:11 | MTL | Cole Caufield (22) | Noah Dobson | 1–0 |
| 04:05 | BUF | Tage Thompson (23) | Noah Ostlund, Jason Zucker | 1–1 |
| 10:30 | BUF | Josh Doan (15) | Tage Thompson, Noah Ostlund | 1–2 |
| 14:20 | MTL | Ivan Demidov (11) | Lane Hutson, Nick Suzuki | 2–2 |
2nd
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | MTL–BUF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03:05 | MTL | Nick Suzuki (15) | Lane Hutson, Cole Caufield | 3–2 |
| 08:55 | BUF | Alex Tuch (16) | Tage Thompson, Rasmus Dahlin | 3–3 |
3rd
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | MTL–BUF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05:12 | BUF | Tage Thompson (24) | Josh Doan | 3–4 |
| 18:20 | BUF | Tage Thompson (25) | Zach Benson | 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/Montréal Canadiens
| Player | Pos | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | S | H | BLK | FO | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lane Hutson | D | 0 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – | 25:55 |
| Nick Suzuki | C | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 14-8 | 22:17 |
| Cole Caufield | R | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1-0 | 19:17 |
| Noah Dobson | D | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – | 21:39 |
| Ivan Demidov | R | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | 16:10 |
| Mike Matheson | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 22:32 |
| Alexandre Carrier | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – | 21:00 |
| Juraj Slafkovský | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0-1 | 18:14 |
| Oliver Kapanen | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8-7 | 16:02 |
| Phillip Danault | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5-6 | 14:58 |
| Kaiden Guhle | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – | 14:56 |
| Alexandre Texier | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | – | 13:45 |
| Josh Anderson | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 13:27 |
| Zack Bolduc | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1-0 | 12:04 |
| Joe Veleno | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4-1 | 11:12 |
| Brendan Gallagher | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | 10:58 |
| Arber Xhekaj | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | – | 10:29 |
| Sammy Blais | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | – | 7:29 |
| Skaters | 3 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 23 | 26 | 18 |
Goaltending
| Player | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NHL 8484170 | 26 | 22 | 4 | .846 | 58:08 |
| Sam Montembeault | – | – | – | – | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tage Thompson | C | 3 | 2 | 5 | +2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7-10 | 20:43 |
| Noah Ostlund | C | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1-4 | 17:21 |
| Josh Doan | R | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0-1 | 16:55 |
| Rasmus Dahlin | D | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – | 27:39 |
| Alex Tuch | R | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | – | 18:44 |
| Zach Benson | L | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | 16:06 |
| Jason Zucker | L | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1-3 | 14:27 |
| Mattias Samuelsson | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | – | 25:24 |
| Bowen Byram | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 25:05 |
| Owen Power | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | – | 23:04 |
| Ryan McLeod | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10-8 | 18:29 |
| Jack Quinn | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 14:21 |
| NHL 8478413 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0-1 | 11:10 |
| Peyton Krebs | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-2 | 10:55 |
| Tyson Kozak | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3-4 | 9:22 |
| Beck Malenstyn | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | – | 8:45 |
| Zach Metsa | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 7:38 |
| Jacob Bryson | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 6:02 |
| Skaters | 5 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 27 | 21 | 6 |
Goaltending
| Player | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colten Ellis | 23 | 20 | 3 | .870 | 59:47 |
| Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen | – | – | – | – | — |
A greyed line is a goaltender who dressed and did not play.
06/Penalties
| Per | Time | Team | Player | Infraction | Min | Drawn by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 03:46 | MTL | Lane Hutson | High-sticking | 2 | Beck Malenstyn |
| 1st | 09:21 | MTL | Kaiden Guhle | Interference | 2 | Josh Doan |
| 1st | 12:50 | BUF | Zach Benson | Slashing | 2 | Brendan Gallagher |
| 1st | 13:46 | BUF | Bowen Byram | High-sticking | 2 | Lane Hutson |
| 2nd | 02:32 | BUF | Jacob Bryson | Holding | 2 | Zack Bolduc |
| 2nd | 10:20 | BUF | Bowen Byram | Roughing | 2 | Mike Matheson |
| 2nd | 10:20 | MTL | Mike Matheson | Roughing | 2 | Bowen Byram |
| 3rd | 00:37 | MTL | Phillip Danault | Tripping | 2 | Jack Quinn |
| 3rd | 07:08 | BUF | NHL 8478413 | Roughing | 2 | Brendan Gallagher |
| 3rd | 07:08 | MTL | Brendan Gallagher | Roughing | 2 | NHL 8478413 |
| 3rd | 08:39 | MTL | Oliver Kapanen | Tripping | 2 | Tage Thompson |
07/Game
- Date
- Fri Jan 16, 2026
- Venue
- KeyBank Center, Buffalo
- Season
- 2025-26
- Type
- Regular season
- Decision
- Final
- NHL game id
- 2025020740
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.