BUFFALO SABRES
Away · Win
5
Final/Wed Jan 21, 2026/Bridgestone Arena, Nashville/2025-26 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2nd3rdT
3115
0213

02/Scoring summary

8 goals

1st

3 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFNSH
08:11BUFNoah Ostlund (8)NHL 8484797, Rasmus Dahlin10
11:45BUFNoah Ostlund (9)NHL 8484797, Owen Power20
17:24BUFNHL 8484797 (1)Peyton Krebs30

2nd

3 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFNSH
04:20BUFTage Thompson (26)Alex Tuch, Josh Doan40
10:09NSHRyan O'Reilly (17)Filip Forsberg, Brady Skjei41
11:54NSHFilip Forsberg (19)Ryan O'Reilly42

3rd

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFNSH
09:30NSHRyan O'Reilly (18)Luke Evangelista, Filip Forsberg43
18:14BUFPeyton Krebs (5)Mattias Samuelsson53

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
BUF
Away / Home
NSH
5
Goals
3
33
Shots on goal
34
6
Missed shots
29
19
Blocked shots
8
47
Shot attempts
83
17
Hits
27
27
Faceoffs won of 60
33
45.0%
Faceoff win %
55.0%
15
Giveaways
10
4
Takeaways
6
3
Penalties
2
6
Penalty minutes
4
1
Power plays
2

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
NHL 8484797123+204211-114:43
Noah OstlundC202+103011-616:58
Peyton KrebsC112+202202-812:31
Rasmus DahlinD011+2005328:02
Mattias SamuelssonD011+2200225:53
Owen PowerD0110030323:25
Alex TuchR011+101003-415:44
Tage ThompsonC101+101007-413:33
Josh DoanR0110010112:57
Bowen ByramD0000020023:59
Ryan McLeodC000-1000011-619:30
Jason ZuckerL000-225111-117:32
Jack QuinnR000-1050116:32
Zach BensonL000+3020015:32
Beck MalenstynL000001521-211:25
NHL 8478413000023200-111:02
Jacob BrysonD000000028:36
Zach MetsaD000000028:06
Skaters58136331719

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Alex Lyon34313.91260:00
Colten Ellis

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


05/Nashville Predators

Home · 18 skaters, 2 goaltenders
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Ryan O'ReillyC213+2240011-1520:42
Filip ForsbergL123+107111-019:38
Brady SkjeiD011+1020226:15
Luke EvangelistaR0110241020:35
Roman JosiD0000040128:24
Nicolas HagueD000-2021120:09
Nick BlankenburgD000-1023218:15
Steven StamkosC000-201102-218:06
Nick PerbixD000-1011014:30
Jonathan MarchessaultC000+1013013:49
Matthew WoodR000000111-013:33
Erik HaulaL000-201306-213:28
Michael McCarronR000-101306-613:28
Cole SmithL000-1025013:21
Fedor SvechkovC000-101106-213:19
Michael BuntingL000-2010012:39
Ozzy WiesblattR000-1003011:24
Justin BarronD000-100008:22
Skaters358434278

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Justus Annunen131301.00034:09
Juuse Saros19154.78923:54

06/Penalties

5 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
1st13:24BUFJason ZuckerTripping2Luke Evangelista
2nd06:20NSHLuke EvangelistaTripping2NHL 8478413
2nd19:43BUFNHL 8478413Holding2Nick Blankenburg
3rd20:00BUFMattias SamuelssonRoughing2Ryan O'Reilly
3rd20:00NSHRyan O'ReillyHigh-sticking2Mattias Samuelsson

07/Game

Date
Wed Jan 21, 2026
Venue
Bridgestone Arena, Nashville
Season
2025-26
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final
NHL game id
2025020784

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.