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Buffalo Sabres at New Jersey Devils

Feb 25, 2026 · Prudential Center

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 30
New Jersey Devils 1 28

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
08:10 BUF Tage Thompson (31) Peyton Krebs (19), Bowen Byram (19) 1 - 0
3rd Period
10:36 BUF Peyton Krebs (8) Tage Thompson (30) 2 - 0
17:30 NJD Timo Meier (15) Jack Hughes (25), Jesper Bratt (29) 2 - 1

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
12:44 BUF Team Too many men on the ice 2
16:35 NJD Nico Hischier Tripping 2
2nd Period
14:44 NJD Jonas Siegenthaler High sticking 2
14:44 NJD Jonas Siegenthaler Fighting 5
14:44 BUF Jason Zucker Fighting 5
16:53 NJD Johnathan Kovacevic Hooking 2
3rd Period
11:27 BUF Owen Power Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 60 46 30 2 3.2 60.9
New Jersey Devils 56 46 28 1 4.1 39.1

How the game went

1510505Start2nd3rdNew Jersey Devils 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 New Jersey Devils had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 3.2 expected, 2 scored · New Jersey Devils: 4.1 expected, 1 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 8:10 of 2nd, a 17% chanceBUF goal, 10:36 of 3rd, a 11% chanceNJD goal, 17:30 of 3rd, a 64% chanceNJD 4.1BUF 3.2

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
New Jersey Devils

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
Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson · Peyton Krebs11:0472.052.21-0
Jason Zucker · Ryan McLeod · Jack Quinn10:2360.064.10-0
Josh Norris · Josh Doan · Noah Ostlund8:1876.586.70-0
Beck Malenstyn · Josh Dunne · Tyson Kozak7:5171.462.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin13:3180.880.50-0
Bowen Byram · Owen Power13:0147.838.81-0
Michael Kesselring · Zach Metsa6:1130.031.00-0

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
19 Peyton Krebs C 1 1 2 2 0 1 0 13:41 0.12 19-9 0.59-0.73
72 Tage Thompson C 1 1 2 2 0 3 1 19:19 0.36 19-12 0.59-0.67
24 Bowen Byram D 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 23:08 0.01 17-14 1.05-0.94
7 Michael Kesselring D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:43 0.03 17-12 1.11-0.49
9 Josh Norris C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:33 0.11 15-4 0.96-0.15
17 Jason Zucker L 0 0 0 0 5 3 1 13:28 0.77 15-13 1.05-0.82
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 15:45 0.24 16-11 1.21-0.65
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 24:15 0.14 35-12 1.49-0.45
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 21:51 0.01 15-19 0.88-1.07
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 24:07 0.03 24-7 1.21-0.40
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 11:49 5-4 0.13-0.08
44 Josh Dunne C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 11:15 0.08 5-5 0.13-0.11
48 Tyson Kozak C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 12:04 0.02 5-4 0.13-0.10
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 17:34 0.36 17-16 1.27-1.03
73 Zach Metsa D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 08:16 0.03 5-9 0.28-0.64
86 Noah Ostlund C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 15:28 0.11 15-8 0.96-0.18
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 19:50 0.04 22-15 0.65-1.05
91 Josh Doan R 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 14:58 0.77 14-6 1.02-0.16
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 28 27 1 60:00 3.95 +2.95

New Jersey Devils

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Timo Meier · Nico Hischier · Dawson Mercer11:4428.652.90-0
Connor Brown · Jesper Bratt · Jack Hughes9:2646.744.90-1
Cody Glass · Arseny Gritsyuk · Lenni Hameenaho7:4664.376.60-0
Nick Bjugstad · Paul Cotter · Maxim Tsyplakov6:5445.538.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Dougie Hamilton · Jonas Siegenthaler13:2340.045.00-0
Brenden Dillon · Simon Nemec13:2039.350.60-0
Brett Pesce · Johnathan Kovacevic12:0336.433.50-2

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
28 Timo Meier R 1 0 1 1 0 6 4 19:47 1.38 8-19 0.52-0.71
63 Jesper Bratt L 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 18:49 0.50 7-10 0.32-0.77
86 Jack Hughes C 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 21:25 0.13 8-19 0.32-1.05
5 Brenden Dillon D 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 20:15 11-19 0.71-1.07
7 Dougie Hamilton D 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 20:02 0.08 13-20 0.50-0.72
8 Johnathan Kovacevic D 0 0 0 -2 2 0 1 15:13 10-17 0.44-1.08
12 Cody Glass C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 11:53 0.02 9-6 0.22-0.24
13 Nico Hischier C 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 21:11 0.33 9-19 0.76-0.64
16 Connor Brown R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 18:38 0.35 7-8 0.32-0.39
22 Brett Pesce D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 18:50 0.00 9-15 0.48-0.97
29 Lenni Hameenaho R 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 12:31 0.13 10-13 0.32-0.34
47 Paul Cotter L 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 07:45 0.01 12-13 0.88-0.96
71 Jonas Siegenthaler D 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 15:59 0.05 14-22 0.65-1.15
71 Simon Nemec D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 22:23 0.05 14-19 1.02-0.89
72 Nick Bjugstad C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 10:35 0.47 10-12 0.54-0.88
72 Maxim Tsyplakov R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 09:20 0.05 10-17 0.54-1.61
81 Arseny Gritsyuk R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 14:25 0.06 10-15 0.32-0.65
91 Dawson Mercer C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 18:15 0.49 9-17 0.86-0.59
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Jake Allen L 30 28 2 56:44 3.12 +1.12