BUFFALO SABRES
Home · Win
3
Final/Sat Mar 7, 2026/KeyBank Center, Buffalo/2025-26 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2nd3rdT
0112
0213

02/Scoring summary

5 goals

2nd

3 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsNSHBUF
01:17NSHNHL 8482742 (1)Jonathan Marchessault, Ryan O'Reilly10
12:39BUFTage Thompson (34)Alex Tuch11
14:17BUFJason Zucker (17)Jack Quinn, Rasmus Dahlin12

3rd

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsNSHBUF
00:16BUFJosh Doan (19)Josh Norris, Noah Ostlund13
16:08NSHMatthew Wood (13)Roman Josi, Steven Stamkos23

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
NSH
Away / Home
BUF
2
Goals
3
25
Shots on goal
24
15
Missed shots
19
11
Blocked shots
17
60
Shot attempts
55
15
Hits
20
38
Faceoffs won of 62
24
61.3%
Faceoff win %
38.7%
15
Giveaways
14
8
Takeaways
5
3
Penalties
4
6
Penalty minutes
8
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/Nashville Predators

Away · 18 skaters, 2 goaltenders
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Roman JosiD011-2020025:56
Ryan O'ReillyC0110020011-321:20
Steven StamkosC011-1211111-317:53
Jonathan MarchessaultC0110002017:03
Matthew WoodR101-103026-515:57
NHL 8482742101+102210-113:26
Brady SkjeiD000-2000021:35
Nicolas HagueD000+1031220:59
Filip ForsbergL000-1040018:48
Nick PerbixD0000021318:41
Erik HaulaL000003206-816:12
Luke EvangelistaR000-1030015:48
NHL 84834650000002115:00
NHL 8482715000-1001013:44
Justin BarronD0000001012:49
Tyson JostC000-1400010:47
Fedor SvechkovC000-100114-49:49
Ozzy WiesblattR000-100109:21
Skaters2466251511

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Juuse Saros24213.87558:52
Justus Annunen

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


05/Buffalo Sabres

Home · 18 skaters, 2 goaltenders
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Rasmus DahlinD011+3010024:36
Alex TuchR011+1002121:19
Tage ThompsonC101+104213-618:53
Josh NorrisC011+1000110-1216:37
Josh DoanR101+1032016:11
Noah OstlundC011+100000-214:46
Jason ZuckerL1010050114:42
Jack QuinnR0110222114:10
Mattias SamuelssonD000+1211124:36
Bowen ByramD0000011123:11
Owen PowerD000-1020323:02
Ryan McLeodC000020004-917:32
Peyton KrebsC000+120202-414:27
Zach MetsaD0000010111:38
Michael KesselringD000+1011310:28
Zach BensonL000002109:32
Beck MalenstynL000000421-19:12
Sam CarrickC000001214-48:55
Skaters3588242017

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Alex Lyon25232.92060:00
Colten Ellis

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


06/Penalties

7 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
1st07:12NSHTyson JostRoughing2Peyton Krebs
1st07:12BUFPeyton KrebsRoughing2Tyson Jost
1st08:43NSHSteven StamkosTripping2Josh Norris
2nd06:13BUFRyan McLeodHooking2Fedor Svechkov
3rd07:09BUFMattias SamuelssonBoarding2Matthew Wood
3rd11:27NSHTyson JostSlashing2Beck Malenstyn
3rd15:55BUFJack QuinnInterference2NHL 8483465

07/Game

Date
Sat Mar 7, 2026
Venue
KeyBank Center, Buffalo
Season
2025-26
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final
NHL game id
2025020992

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.