BUFFALO SABRES
Away · Win
4
Final/Fri Jan 23, 2026/Centre Bell, Montreal/2025-26 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2nd3rdT
2114
0202

02/Scoring summary

6 goals

1st

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFMTL
00:44BUFJason Zucker (11)Jack Quinn, Ryan McLeod10
14:58BUFBeck Malenstyn (4)Mattias Samuelsson20

2nd

3 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFMTL
02:25BUFZach Benson (6)NHL 8484797, Noah Ostlund30
03:56MTLCole Caufield (26)Nick Suzuki, Mike Matheson31
11:20MTLNick Suzuki (16)Zack Bolduc32

3rd

1 goal
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFMTL
19:16BUFPeyton Krebs (6)Tage Thompson42

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
BUF
Away / Home
MTL
4
Goals
2
17
Shots on goal
34
10
Missed shots
12
18
Blocked shots
16
44
Shot attempts
66
26
Hits
28
20
Faceoffs won of 56
36
35.7%
Faceoff win %
64.3%
9
Giveaways
12
5
Takeaways
3
5
Penalties
4
10
Penalty minutes
8
2
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
Mattias SamuelssonD011-1205223:03
Ryan McLeodC011+100109-1220:53
Tage ThompsonC011-101025-1317:14
Jason ZuckerL101+102110-117:00
Jack QuinnR011+1010016:57
Noah OstlundC011+120000-313:02
Beck MalenstynL101+101621-111:41
Zach BensonL101+1021010:47
Peyton KrebsC101001404-310:38
NHL 8484797011+101111-29:36
Bowen ByramD000+3011027:21
Owen PowerD000+2001226:25
Rasmus DahlinD000-2411222:53
Alex TuchR000004330-119:46
Josh DoanR000-2001015:26
Michael KesselringD000+1220112:04
NHL 8478413000+1000010:57
Jacob BrysonD000+100026:17
Skaters461010172618

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen34322.94160:00
Colten Ellis

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


05/Montréal Canadiens

Home · 18 skaters, 2 goaltenders
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Nick SuzukiC1120032111-1020:14
Mike MathesonD011+1051123:53
Cole CaufieldR1010020017:56
Zack BolducR011-1624214:18
Lane HutsonD000-3240024:14
Noah DobsonD000+1012323:26
Alexandre CarrierD0000030118:53
Juraj SlafkovskýL000-1011018:50
Ivan DemidovR000-1023117:44
Oliver KapanenC000-102037-415:54
Kirby DachC000-1002115:25
Kaiden GuhleD0000002214:17
Josh AndersonR000-1022013:21
Phillip DanaultC000-1011110-413:20
Brendan GallagherR000-1031013:09
Jake EvansC000002105-111:25
Joe VelenoC000001403-110:02
Jayden StrubleD000-200209:06
Skaters2358342816

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Sam Montembeault16133.81358:33
Jakub Dobes

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


06/Penalties

9 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
1st13:01BUFMichael KesselringHigh-sticking2Jake Evans
2nd07:44BUFRasmus DahlinSlashing2Juraj Slafkovský
2nd14:47BUFMattias SamuelssonRoughing2Zack Bolduc
2nd14:47MTLZack BolducRoughing2Mattias Samuelsson
2nd16:55MTLZack BolducSlashing2Rasmus Dahlin
2nd16:55MTLZack BolducRoughing2Rasmus Dahlin
2nd16:55BUFRasmus DahlinRoughing2Zack Bolduc
3rd05:51BUFNoah OstlundSlashing2Kaiden Guhle
3rd07:16MTLLane HutsonSlashing2Alex Tuch

07/Game

Date
Fri Jan 23, 2026
Venue
Centre Bell, Montreal
Season
2025-26
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final
NHL game id
2025020795

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.