BUFFALO SABRES
Home · Win
3
Final/Wed Mar 4, 2026/KeyBank Center, Buffalo/2025-26 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2ndT
022
123

02/Scoring summary

5 goals

1st

1 goal
TimeTeamGoalAssistsVGKBUF
04:02BUFJason Zucker (16)Ryan McLeod, Rasmus Dahlin01

2nd

4 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsVGKBUF
00:46BUFOwen Power (5)Noah Ostlund02
05:44BUFTage Thompson (33)Alex Tuch, Rasmus Dahlin03
06:50VGKIvan Barbashev (18)Shea Theodore, Jack Eichel13
08:27VGKPavel Dorofeyev (29)Reilly Smith23

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
VGK
Away / Home
BUF
2
Goals
3
29
Shots on goal
28
19
Missed shots
18
10
Blocked shots
10
59
Shot attempts
58
28
Hits
15
27
Faceoffs won of 61
34
44.3%
Faceoff win %
55.7%
14
Giveaways
15
5
Takeaways
9
1
Penalties
1
2
Penalty minutes
2
1
Power plays
1

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/Vegas Golden Knights

Away · 18 skaters, 2 goaltenders
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Shea TheodoreD0110010124:29
Jack EichelC011002008-1121:19
Pavel DorofeyevR101+1040020:48
Reilly SmithR011+1022019:04
Ivan BarbashevL101003001-217:41
Mitch MarnerR000+100016-922:11
Brayden McNabbD000+1023120:36
Noah HanifinD000-1030319:10
Rasmus AnderssonD000-1210118:16
NHL 84838900000011018:15
Kaedan KorczakD0000011017:26
Jeremy LauzonD000-1024115:59
Colton SissonsC000002319-313:01
Tomas HertlC000-202203-811:47
Keegan KolesarR000-2017111:40
Cole ReinhardtL0000014011:01
NHL 8481534000000100-18:34
Brandon SaadL000-201008:14
Skaters2352292810

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Akira Schmid28253.89358:29
Adin Hill

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


05/Buffalo Sabres

Home · 18 skaters, 2 goaltenders
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Rasmus DahlinD022+2013125:50
Owen PowerD101-1020222:54
Tage ThompsonC101+102007-821:07
Alex TuchR011+1211119:36
Ryan McLeodC011+102019-1015:51
Noah OstlundC011001002-014:19
Jason ZuckerL101+102001-113:36
Mattias SamuelssonD000+1041125:15
Bowen ByramD000-1001022:42
Peyton KrebsC000+100405-120:04
Josh DoanR0000011116:32
Josh NorrisC000002007-515:35
Jack QuinnR0000050015:05
Michael KesselringD0000030011:19
Zach MetsaD000+1010110:58
Zach BensonL000-100109:46
Beck MalenstynL000001218:57
Tyson KozakC000-100113-28:34
Skaters3582281510

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Alex Lyon29272.93160:00
Colten Ellis

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


06/Penalties

2 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
1st07:39BUFAlex TuchTripping2Jeremy Lauzon
3rd12:50VGKRasmus AnderssonDelay of game (puck over the glass)2

07/Game

Date
Wed Mar 4, 2026
Venue
KeyBank Center, Buffalo
Season
2025-26
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final
NHL game id
2025020960

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.