Final / OT/Wed Feb 4, 2026/Benchmark International Arena, Tampa/2025-26 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2nd3rdOTT
10203
10214

02/Scoring summary

7 goals

1st

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFTBL
10:24TBLNikita Kucherov (29)Jake Guentzel01
16:53BUFMattias Samuelsson (10)unassisted11

3rd

4 goals

OT

1 goal
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFTBL
04:45TBLJake Guentzel (25)Nikita Kucherov, J.J. Moser34

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
BUF
Away / Home
TBL
3
Goals
4
26
Shots on goal
35
12
Missed shots
14
9
Blocked shots
10
49
Shot attempts
59
13
Hits
26
30
Faceoffs won of 61
31
49.2%
Faceoff win %
50.8%
22
Giveaways
15
9
Takeaways
6
2
Penalties
3
4
Penalty minutes
6
3
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
Mattias SamuelssonD202+1032024:01
Rasmus DahlinD0110070127:47
Tage ThompsonC011-105105-522:09
Ryan McLeodC011002019-1019:31
Jack QuinnR0110021017:50
Josh DoanR1010010016:29
Bowen ByramD000-1200123:37
Alex TuchR000-201011-122:38
Owen PowerD000-1010221:51
Peyton KrebsC000-201300-317:47
Jason ZuckerL000000003-217:10
Noah OstlundC000020003-314:36
NHL 8484797000+101314-413:47
Tyson KozakC000+100114-312:25
Zach MetsaD0000000111:12
Jacob BrysonD0000010011:01
Beck MalenstynL000+101201-09:08
NHL 8482765000000008:17
Skaters347426139

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Colten Ellis35314.88664:24
Alex Lyon

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


05/Tampa Bay Lightning

Home · 18 skaters, 2 goaltenders
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Nikita KucherovR134+1070122:24
Jake GuentzelC112+1011012-1426:07
Darren RaddyshD112-1032225:48
Brandon HagelL0110041025:40
J.J. MoserD011-1220323:51
Oliver BjorkstrandR101+1021015:04
Yanni GourdeC000+1021011-720:01
Ryan McDonaghD0000020019:40
Erik CernakD0000020318:04
Victor HedmanD000+1010017:39
Zemgus GirgensonsC0000024017:07
Pontus HolmbergR0000003016:31
NHL 8483398000+1013015:08
Gage GoncalvesC0000211013:52
Dominic JamesC000002205-613:02
Jack FinleyC000001103-37:43
NHL 8477149000001416:03
Curtis DouglasC000021205:45
Skaters47116352610

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy26233.88563:33
Jonas Johansson

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


06/Penalties

5 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
1st01:10BUFNoah OstlundHolding2Jake Guentzel
1st10:35TBLGage GoncalvesHolding2Josh Doan
1st13:55TBLJ.J. MoserTripping2Jack Quinn
3rd07:33BUFBowen ByramHooking2Brandon Hagel
3rd12:55TBLCurtis DouglasHooking2NHL 8484797

07/Game

Date
Wed Feb 4, 2026
Venue
Benchmark International Arena, Tampa
Season
2025-26
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final / OT
NHL game id
2025020886

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. 4 players are not in the player index and appear by NHL id rather than under an invented name.