BUFFALO SABRES
Away · Win
5
Final/Fri Mar 20, 2026/SAP Center at San Jose, San Jose/2025-26 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2nd3rdT
0325
0000

02/Scoring summary

5 goals

2nd

3 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFSJS
09:05BUFNoah Ostlund (11)Josh Doan, Logan Stanley10
09:41BUFSam Carrick (7)Rasmus Dahlin, Zach Benson20
10:48BUFRasmus Dahlin (14)Jason Zucker, Mattias Samuelsson30

3rd

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFSJS
00:40BUFTage Thompson (35)Peyton Krebs, Alex Tuch40
16:54BUFSam Carrick (8)Logan Stanley, Zach Metsa50

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
BUF
Away / Home
SJS
5
Goals
0
16
Shots on goal
23
10
Missed shots
11
14
Blocked shots
16
43
Shot attempts
49
14
Hits
27
24
Faceoffs won of 48
24
50.0%
Faceoff win %
50.0%
10
Giveaways
19
4
Takeaways
6
2
Penalties
2
4
Penalty minutes
4
2
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
Rasmus DahlinD112+2010019:15
Logan StanleyD022+2011218:06
Sam CarrickC202+203008-113:27
Mattias SamuelssonD011+2010118:36
Alex TuchR011+1001217:36
Tage ThompsonC101+101302-616:50
Noah OstlundC101+102012-216:06
Zach MetsaD011+2000115:48
Josh DoanR011+1020115:17
Peyton KrebsC011+100210-214:17
Jason ZuckerL011+1220014:08
Zach BensonL011+2001011:59
Bowen ByramD000+1011024:07
Owen PowerD000+1200320:47
Ryan McLeodC000+100004-615:58
Jack QuinnR000+1021114:55
Josh NorrisC000+100118-714:54
Beck MalenstynL000+2003013:54
Skaters510154161414

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Alex Lyon232301.00060:00
Colten Ellis

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


05/San Jose Sharks

Home · 18 skaters, 2 goaltenders
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Mario FerraroD000-2013323:06
Macklin CelebriniC000-101318-421:33
Kiefer SherwoodL000-204311-020:43
Will SmithC000-1030020:29
Vincent DesharnaisD000-1013419:51
Dmitry OrlovD000-2011019:15
Sam DickinsonD000-2012319:02
Nick LeddyD000-1020018:15
Alexander WennbergC000-220217-1317:42
Collin GrafR000-101001-017:27
Shakir MukhamadullinD000-2002016:16
William EklundL000-202000-115:54
Michael MisaC000-100124-114:20
NHL 8483630000-100301-014:16
NHL 8482859000-102112-311:40
Barclay GoodrowC000-1232011:36
Adam GaudetteR000-200100-210:54
Tyler ToffoliC000001003:41
Skaters0004232716

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Alex Nedeljkovic16115.68860:00
NHL 8476316

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


06/Penalties

4 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
1st10:56SJSAlexander WennbergHigh-sticking2Tage Thompson
1st16:09BUFJason ZuckerHigh-sticking2Kiefer Sherwood
2nd04:38BUFOwen PowerHolding2NHL 8483630
3rd13:40SJSBarclay GoodrowSlashing2Peyton Krebs

07/Game

Date
Fri Mar 20, 2026
Venue
SAP Center at San Jose, San Jose
Season
2025-26
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final
NHL game id
2025021092

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.