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Buffalo Sabres at Tampa Bay Lightning

Feb 28, 2026 · Benchmark International Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 6 35
Tampa Bay Lightning 2 38

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
05:25 BUF Rasmus Dahlin (12) Owen Power (14) 1 - 0
06:15 BUF Josh Norris (7) Josh Doan (22), Zach Metsa (2) 2 - 0
08:18 BUF Josh Norris (8) Bowen Byram (21), Zach Benson (20) 3 - 0
15:06 BUF Tage Thompson (32) Peyton Krebs (20), Rasmus Dahlin (38) 4 - 0
2nd Period
01:54 BUF Zach Metsa (2) Unassisted 5 - 0
16:03 TBL Dominic James (7) Oliver Bjorkstrand (18), Victor Hedman (14) 5 - 1
3rd Period
03:43 BUF Alex Tuch (24) PP Rasmus Dahlin (39), Jack Quinn (26) 6 - 1
05:27 TBL Victor Hedman (1) Darren Raddysh (37) 6 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
10:44 BUF Zach Benson Cross checking 2
2nd Period
05:47 TBL Brayden Point Slashing 2
05:47 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Cross checking 2
10:26 TBL Emil Lilleberg Roughing 2
12:10 TBL Jake Guentzel Delaying game puck over glass 2
16:03 TBL Victor Hedman Roughing 2
16:03 BUF Mattias Samuelsson Roughing 2
3rd Period
01:28 BUF Alex Tuch Roughing 2
01:28 TBL Charle-Edouard D'Astous Roughing 2
01:28 BUF Michael Kesselring Cross checking 2
02:02 TBL Jake Guentzel Abuse of officials 2
02:02 TBL Jake Guentzel Abusive language 10
06:23 TBL Darren Raddysh Cross checking 2
12:48 TBL Anthony Cirelli Interference 2
17:12 BUF Michael Kesselring Cross checking 2
20:00 TBL Charle-Edouard D'Astous Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 55 50 35 6 4.4 40.9
Tampa Bay Lightning 65 51 38 2 3.4 59.1

How the game went

1050510Start2nd3rdTampa Bay Lightning 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 Tampa Bay Lightning had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 4.4 expected, 6 scored · Tampa Bay Lightning: 3.4 expected, 2 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 5:25 of 1st, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 6:15 of 1st, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 8:18 of 1st, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 15:06 of 1st, a 17% chanceBUF goal, 1:54 of 2nd, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 3:43 of 3rd, a 6% chanceTBL goal, 16:03 of 2nd, a 22% chanceTBL goal, 5:27 of 3rd, a 3% chanceBUF 4.4TBL 3.4

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
Tampa Bay Lightning

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
Beck Malenstyn · Tyson Kozak · Zach Benson8:4825.017.90-0
Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson · Peyton Krebs7:4247.656.01-2
Jason Zucker · Ryan McLeod · Jack Quinn7:3957.162.81-0
Josh Norris · Josh Doan · Noah Ostlund7:2925.031.61-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin9:4147.862.71-0
Bowen Byram · Owen Power6:1964.352.01-0
Rasmus Dahlin · Zach Metsa5:1633.382.40-0

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
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 1 2 3 2 2 2 0 24:32 0.31 17-18 1.07-0.56
9 Josh Norris C 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 15:03 0.26 5-9 0.30-0.34
73 Zach Metsa D 1 1 2 2 0 3 0 13:08 0.34 7-13 0.83-0.66
72 Tage Thompson C 1 0 1 -1 0 6 0 16:00 0.62 14-11 1.20-0.70
89 Alex Tuch R 1 0 1 -1 2 5 1 18:15 0.72 10-19 0.88-1.18
6 Zach Benson L 0 1 1 1 2 0 2 13:39 6-19 0.27-0.94
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 1 1 -1 0 0 5 10:59 0.24 13-15 1.13-1.08
22 Jack Quinn R 0 1 1 2 0 2 1 14:21 0.26 14-10 0.73-0.33
24 Bowen Byram D 0 1 1 2 0 4 0 22:45 0.30 11-12 0.56-0.63
25 Owen Power D 0 1 1 2 0 4 0 19:59 0.20 19-26 1.34-1.92
91 Josh Doan R 0 1 1 2 0 2 1 16:08 0.18 7-10 0.51-0.41
7 Michael Kesselring D 0 0 0 -1 4 0 0 08:40 4-12 0.12-0.55
17 Jason Zucker L 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 12:05 0.18 14-9 0.73-0.33
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 1 24:08 0.08 14-23 0.68-0.92
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 12:26 0.12 5-13 0.17-0.70
48 Tyson Kozak C 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 13:04 5-18 0.24-0.87
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 20:21 0.31 12-11 0.56-0.41
86 Noah Ostlund C 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 14:46 0.28 3-11 0.16-0.41
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 38 36 2 59:41 3.26 +1.26

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Yanni Gourde · Zemgus Girgensons · Pontus Holmberg8:4947.133.10-1
Nikita Kucherov · Brayden Point · Gage Goncalves4:5550.051.20-1
Jake Guentzel · Anthony Cirelli · Brandon Hagel4:4042.942.40-1
Oliver Bjorkstrand · Brandon Hagel · Dominic James4:02100.0100.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Darren Raddysh · J.J. Moser9:1653.347.20-1
Ryan McDonagh · Erik Cernak8:1443.837.00-1
Charle-Edouard D'Astous · Emil Lilleberg7:2183.396.40-0

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
77 Victor Hedman D 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 16:53 0.16 23-12 1.32-0.88
17 Dominic James C 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 13:06 0.22 14-5 0.95-0.29
28 Oliver Bjorkstrand R 0 1 1 -1 0 4 2 16:24 0.48 19-8 1.12-0.38
43 Darren Raddysh D 0 1 1 1 2 3 1 21:18 0.19 16-13 0.56-0.53
21 Brayden Point C 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 17:52 17-8 0.49-0.37
27 Ryan McDonagh D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 0 16:16 8-12 0.42-0.92
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 3 15:03 0.13 8-9 0.25-0.50
29 Pontus Holmberg R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:52 0.08 13-11 0.65-0.67
37 Yanni Gourde C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 5 15:59 0.01 10-11 0.39-0.67
38 Brandon Hagel L 0 0 0 -1 0 8 0 21:05 0.77 23-14 1.16-0.79
51 Charle-Edouard D'Astous D 0 0 0 -2 4 0 3 15:50 22-9 1.27-0.46
59 Jake Guentzel C 0 0 0 -1 14 3 0 13:02 0.32 10-11 0.57-0.91
71 Anthony Cirelli C 0 0 0 -2 2 1 2 14:01 0.37 14-16 0.90-1.23
78 Emil Lilleberg D 0 0 0 -1 2 3 3 16:45 0.05 17-7 0.85-0.63
81 Erik Cernak D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 14:39 0.07 9-10 0.55-0.78
86 Nikita Kucherov R 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 20:11 0.15 19-10 0.72-0.90
90 J.J. Moser D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 15:46 0.09 9-9 0.27-0.39
93 Gage Goncalves C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 08:17 0.28 9-5 0.66-0.19
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Jonas Johansson 21 20 1 38:06 2.37 +1.37
88 Andrei Vasilevskiy L 14 9 5 21:54 1.87 -3.13