01/Line score
02/Scoring summary
2nd
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | BUF–NJD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:10 | BUF | Tage Thompson (31) | Peyton Krebs, Bowen Byram | 1–0 |
3rd
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | BUF–NJD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:36 | BUF | Peyton Krebs (8) | Tage Thompson | 2–0 |
| 17:30 | NJD | Timo Meier (15) | Jack Hughes, Jesper Bratt | 2–1 |
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/Buffalo Sabres
| Player | Pos | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | S | H | BLK | FO | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tage Thompson | C | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3-7 | 19:19 |
| Peyton Krebs | C | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1-0 | 13:41 |
| Bowen Byram | D | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – | 23:08 |
| Mattias Samuelsson | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1 | – | 24:15 |
| Rasmus Dahlin | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | 24:07 |
| Owen Power | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – | 21:51 |
| Alex Tuch | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | 19:50 |
| Ryan McLeod | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10-9 | 17:34 |
| Jack Quinn | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | – | 15:45 |
| Noah Ostlund | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0-1 | 15:28 |
| Josh Doan | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0-2 | 14:58 |
| Michael Kesselring | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 14:43 |
| Josh Norris | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6-7 | 14:33 |
| Jason Zucker | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0-1 | 13:28 |
| Tyson Kozak | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5-2 | 12:04 |
| Beck Malenstyn | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | 11:49 |
| NHL 8482623 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 11:15 |
| Zach Metsa | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 8:16 |
| Skaters | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 30 | 21 | 10 |
Goaltending
| Player | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen | 28 | 27 | 1 | .964 | 60:00 |
| Alex Lyon | – | – | – | – | — |
A greyed line is a goaltender who dressed and did not play.
05/New Jersey Devils
| Player | Pos | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | S | H | BLK | FO | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Hughes | C | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3-5 | 21:25 |
| Timo Meier | R | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1-2 | 19:47 |
| Jesper Bratt | L | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | – | 18:49 |
| Simon Nemec | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 22:23 |
| Nico Hischier | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11-13 | 21:11 |
| Brenden Dillon | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | – | 20:15 |
| Dougie Hamilton | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | – | 20:02 |
| Brett Pesce | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | 18:50 |
| Connor Brown | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 18:38 |
| Dawson Mercer | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – | 18:15 |
| Jonas Siegenthaler | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – | 15:59 |
| NHL 8480192 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | – | 15:13 |
| Arseny Gritsyuk | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | 14:25 |
| NHL 8484177 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | – | 12:31 |
| Cody Glass | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11-2 | 11:53 |
| Nick Bjugstad | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2-3 | 10:35 |
| Maxim Tsyplakov | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 9:20 |
| Paul Cotter | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1-0 | 7:45 |
| Skaters | 1 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 28 | 24 | 13 |
Goaltending
| Player | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jake Allen | 30 | 28 | 2 | .933 | 56:44 |
| Jacob Markstrom | – | – | – | – | — |
A greyed line is a goaltender who dressed and did not play.
06/Penalties
| Per | Time | Team | Player | Infraction | Min | Drawn by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 12:44 | BUF | – | Too many men on the ice | 2 | – |
| 1st | 16:35 | NJD | Nico Hischier | Tripping | 2 | Rasmus Dahlin |
| 2nd | 14:44 | NJD | Jonas Siegenthaler | High-sticking | 2 | Jason Zucker |
| 2nd | 14:44 | NJD | Jonas Siegenthaler | Fighting | 5 | Jason Zucker |
| 2nd | 14:44 | BUF | Jason Zucker | Fighting | 5 | Jonas Siegenthaler |
| 2nd | 16:53 | NJD | NHL 8480192 | Hooking | 2 | Josh Doan |
| 3rd | 11:27 | BUF | Owen Power | Holding | 2 | Nick Bjugstad |
07/Game
- Date
- Thu Feb 26, 2026
- Venue
- Prudential Center, Newark
- Season
- 2025-26
- Type
- Regular season
- Decision
- Final
- NHL game id
- 2025020910
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.