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Buffalo Sabres at Toronto Maple Leafs

Oct 25, 2025 · Scotiabank Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 3 26
Toronto Maple Leafs 4 23

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
13:40 BUF Tage Thompson (3) Jiri Kulich (2), Mattias Samuelsson (3) 1 - 0
18:33 TOR Nick Robertson (1) Easton Cowan (3), Auston Matthews (3) 1 - 1
2nd Period
01:59 TOR Matias Maccelli (2) John Tavares (7), Matthew Knies (7) 1 - 2
14:23 BUF Bowen Byram (1) Conor Timmins (2), Ryan McLeod (4) 2 - 2
3rd Period
07:06 BUF Tage Thompson (4) PP Jason Zucker (2), Rasmus Dahlin (7) 3 - 2
13:10 TOR Dakota Joshua (2) Jake McCabe (2), Brandon Carlo (2) 3 - 3
Overtime
01:28 TOR John Tavares (5) Matthew Knies (8) 3 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
02:32 BUF Josh Dunne Interference 2
07:05 TOR Jake McCabe High sticking 2
10:09 TOR Oliver Ekman-Larsson Cross checking 2
14:22 BUF Alex Tuch Instigator 2
14:22 TOR Jake McCabe Fighting 5
14:22 BUF Alex Tuch Fighting 5
14:22 BUF Alex Tuch Instigator misconduct 10
2nd Period
04:21 BUF Mattias Samuelsson Cross checking 2
17:12 TOR Oliver Ekman-Larsson Interference 2
3rd Period
06:25 TOR Simon Benoit Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 53 35 26 3 2.2 46.8
Toronto Maple Leafs 54 36 23 4 2.2 53.2

How the game went

10505Start2nd3rdOTToronto Maple Leafs aheadBuffalo Sabres ahead

The gap in shot attempts as the game went on: how many more one team had taken than the other. The line is above the middle and red while Toronto Maple Leafs had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.2 expected, 3 scored · Toronto Maple Leafs: 2.2 expected, 4 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 13:40 of 1st, a 4% chanceBUF goal, 14:23 of 2nd, a 1% chanceBUF goal, 7:06 of 3rd, a 21% chanceTOR goal, 18:33 of 1st, a 15% chanceTOR goal, 1:59 of 2nd, a 6% chanceTOR goal, 13:10 of 3rd, a 4% chanceTOR goal, 1:28 of overtime, a 16% chanceBUF 2.2TOR 2.2

Each line climbs with every chance a team had: a small step for a shot from far out, a big one for a dangerous chance. A dot is a goal. Expected goals adds up how likely each shot was to go in, judged by where it was taken from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. Blocked shots and the shootout are not counted.

Where the attempts came from

Buffalo Sabres
Toronto Maple Leafs

There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from.

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tage Thompson · Jiri Kulich · Zach Benson10:4558.874.61-0
Beck Malenstyn · Peyton Krebs · Josh Dunne10:1350.068.40-0
Alex Tuch · Ryan McLeod · Josh Doan6:4642.944.31-1
Jason Zucker · Jack Quinn · Noah Ostlund6:1440.096.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin8:3433.321.30-1
Conor Timmins · Owen Power8:0250.087.80-0
Conor Timmins · Bowen Byram5:5172.762.31-1

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

xG is the expected goals of a skater's own shots. CF-CA and xGF-xGA are the shot attempts and the expected goals for and against while he was on the ice at five-on-five. For a goalie, xGA is what the shots he faced were expected to produce, and the last column is how many of those he saved. What these numbers mean

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
72 Tage Thompson C 2 0 2 0 0 5 0 18:35 0.60 11-7 0.33-0.11
24 Bowen Byram D 1 0 1 -1 0 2 0 18:21 0.11 15-11 0.46-0.30
17 Jason Zucker L 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 14:54 0.35 5-13 0.14-0.30
20 Jiri Kulich C 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 15:24 0.03 15-9 0.59-0.12
21 Conor Timmins D 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 21:48 0.03 18-16 0.68-0.40
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 1 1 -1 2 1 3 22:43 0.06 13-19 0.38-0.55
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 -1 0 2 0 23:42 0.18 9-13 0.15-0.24
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 1 1 -2 0 0 0 17:47 7-16 0.25-0.83
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 19:50 0.01 13-9 0.53-0.12
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 15:04 0.01 11-11 0.22-0.25
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 -2 0 3 2 15:19 0.30 7-10 0.15-0.11
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 23:55 0.08 15-16 0.54-0.34
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 14:19 0.10 10-10 0.23-0.10
44 Josh Dunne C 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 12:14 0.08 8-8 0.20-0.09
73 Zach Metsa D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 07:08 4-9 0.07-0.32
86 Noah Ostlund C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 08:39 0.09 6-9 0.11-0.02
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 0 17 1 0 13:34 0.23 9-9 0.43-0.33
91 Josh Doan R 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 15:08 9-15 0.26-0.83
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen OTL 23 19 4 61:28 2.08 -1.92

Toronto Maple Leafs

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Auston Matthews · Nick Robertson · Bobby McMann11:5460.019.10-0
John Tavares · Matias Maccelli · Matthew Knies9:2968.884.01-0
Dakota Joshua · Nicolas Roy · Easton Cowan6:5244.432.81-0
Calle Jarnkrok · Max Domi · Steven Lorentz4:5130.04.60-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jake McCabe · Brandon Carlo14:3336.030.91-0
Oliver Ekman-Larsson · Morgan Rielly12:5450.041.10-0
Philippe Myers · Simon Benoit11:1462.540.91-2

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
91 John Tavares C 1 1 2 2 0 5 1 17:23 0.56 14-5 0.44-0.08
89 Matthew Knies L 0 2 2 2 0 1 1 22:26 0.24 13-6 0.42-0.12
14 Nick Robertson L 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 14:54 0.19 13-9 0.30-0.65
63 Matias Maccelli L 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 15:27 0.28 14-7 0.44-0.09
81 Dakota Joshua C 1 0 1 0 0 1 5 12:55 0.04 7-11 0.07-0.23
22 Jake McCabe D 0 1 1 1 7 2 3 19:30 0.02 10-17 0.25-0.57
25 Brandon Carlo D 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 22:19 15-18 0.60-0.57
34 Auston Matthews C 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 23:24 0.20 13-11 0.30-0.66
53 Easton Cowan R 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 10:58 0.09 8-6 0.48-0.17
10 Nicolas Roy C 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 16:07 0.05 11-12 0.17-0.22
11 Max Domi C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 10:29 0.09 9-11 0.19-0.21
18 Steven Lorentz C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 08:36 0.17 5-8 0.27-0.14
19 Calle Jarnkrok C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 10:34 4-9 0.01-0.15
44 Morgan Rielly D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 19:29 0.07 14-11 0.47-0.42
44 Simon Benoit D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 2 18:09 0.03 15-8 0.29-0.15
51 Philippe Myers D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 16:54 0.01 15-8 0.17-0.16
74 Bobby McMann C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17:52 0.07 15-15 0.17-0.70
95 Oliver Ekman-Larsson D 0 0 0 1 4 0 5 20:17 0.05 15-13 0.38-0.43
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Cayden Primeau W 26 23 3 61:28 2.16 -0.84