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Vegas Golden Knights at Buffalo Sabres

Mar 3, 2026 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Vegas Golden Knights 2 29
Buffalo Sabres 3 28

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
04:02 BUF Jason Zucker (16) Ryan McLeod (32), Rasmus Dahlin (40) 0 - 1
2nd Period
00:46 BUF Owen Power (5) Noah Ostlund (11) 0 - 2
05:44 BUF Tage Thompson (33) Alex Tuch (28), Rasmus Dahlin (41) 0 - 3
06:50 VGK Ivan Barbashev (18) Shea Theodore (21), Jack Eichel (48) 1 - 3
08:27 VGK Pavel Dorofeyev (29) Reilly Smith (9) 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
07:39 BUF Alex Tuch Tripping 2
3rd Period
12:50 VGK Rasmus Andersson Delaying game puck over glass 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Vegas Golden Knights 60 48 29 2 4.2 50.5
Buffalo Sabres 57 46 28 3 3.9 49.5

How the game went

20246810Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadVegas Golden Knights 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 Buffalo Sabres had taken more, and below it and blue while Vegas Golden Knights had.

Expected goals

Vegas Golden Knights: 4.2 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.9 expected, 3 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndVGK goal, 6:50 of 2nd, a 24% chanceVGK goal, 8:27 of 2nd, a 14% chanceBUF goal, 4:02 of 1st, a 31% chanceBUF goal, 0:46 of 2nd, a 2% chanceBUF goal, 5:44 of 2nd, a 8% chanceVGK 4.2BUF 3.9

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

Vegas Golden Knights
Buffalo Sabres

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.

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ivan Barbashev · Jack Eichel · Braeden Bowman14:0250.046.61-1
Reilly Smith · Mitch Marner · Pavel Dorofeyev13:5656.053.81-0
Brandon Saad · Tomas Hertl · Keegan Kolesar5:1250.043.30-2
Colton Sissons · Cole Reinhardt · Raphael Lavoie5:1050.052.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brayden McNabb · Shea Theodore13:3456.562.11-0
Noah Hanifin · Kaedan Korczak9:5460.066.10-0
Rasmus Andersson · Jeremy Lauzon8:1750.032.71-1

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
16 Pavel Dorofeyev R 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 20:48 0.42 14-13 0.82-0.78
49 Ivan Barbashev L 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 17:41 0.38 14-16 0.92-1.13
9 Jack Eichel C 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 21:19 0.09 16-17 1.13-1.19
19 Reilly Smith R 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 19:04 0.28 17-15 0.97-1.19
27 Shea Theodore D 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 24:29 0.21 21-17 1.28-1.07
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 20:36 0.09 15-15 0.98-0.48
4 Rasmus Andersson D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 18:16 0.07 25-24 1.34-1.84
5 Jeremy Lauzon D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 4 15:59 0.07 16-20 0.78-1.47
6 Kaedan Korczak D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17:26 0.02 12-14 0.90-0.55
15 Colton Sissons C 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 13:01 0.06 11-12 0.68-0.55
15 Noah Hanifin D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 19:10 0.05 20-16 1.03-0.99
20 Brandon Saad L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 08:14 0.07 10-12 0.33-0.54
29 Cole Reinhardt L 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 11:01 0.20 13-10 0.89-0.34
36 Raphael Lavoie C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 08:34 0.04 11-7 0.33-0.28
42 Braeden Bowman R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 18:15 1.36 15-17 0.92-1.34
48 Tomas Hertl C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 2 11:47 0.19 10-7 0.33-0.41
55 Keegan Kolesar R 0 0 0 -2 0 1 7 11:40 0.65 13-16 0.93-0.80
93 Mitch Marner R 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 22:11 17-17 0.97-1.05
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Akira Schmid L 28 25 3 58:29 3.28 +0.28

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson · Peyton Krebs15:1440.027.01-0
Josh Norris · Josh Doan · Noah Ostlund12:1363.667.01-1
Jason Zucker · Ryan McLeod · Jack Quinn11:2861.580.91-0
Beck Malenstyn · Tyson Kozak · Zach Benson6:4940.034.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Bowen Byram · Owen Power10:3621.727.91-2
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin8:5053.881.51-0
Rasmus Dahlin · Zach Metsa7:1340.051.31-0

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
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 2 2 2 0 1 3 25:50 0.01 25-20 1.48-0.86
17 Jason Zucker L 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 13:36 0.43 16-12 1.46-0.36
25 Owen Power D 1 0 1 -1 0 2 0 22:54 0.04 22-23 1.06-1.52
72 Tage Thompson C 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 21:07 0.15 16-18 0.57-1.13
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 15:51 0.35 16-13 1.46-0.47
86 Noah Ostlund C 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 14:19 0.18 14-8 0.74-0.36
89 Alex Tuch R 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 19:36 0.14 12-20 0.42-1.24
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 09:46 6-13 0.29-0.89
7 Michael Kesselring D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 11:19 0.31 15-6 0.78-0.37
9 Josh Norris C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 15:35 0.17 15-11 0.88-0.62
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 20:04 0.20 17-20 0.72-1.39
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 15:05 0.82 18-15 1.48-0.79
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 25:15 0.26 24-13 1.76-0.82
24 Bowen Byram D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 22:42 11-28 0.70-2.03
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 08:57 0.04 6-9 0.29-0.54
48 Tyson Kozak C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 08:34 6-12 0.29-0.88
73 Zach Metsa D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 10:58 0.02 9-18 0.61-0.61
91 Josh Doan R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16:32 0.27 17-11 1.01-0.64
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Alex Lyon W 29 27 2 60:00 4.09 +2.09