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Tampa Bay Lightning at Buffalo Sabres

Mar 8, 2026 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Tampa Bay Lightning 7 28
Buffalo Sabres 8 42

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
08:26 BUF Josh Doan (20) PP Tage Thompson (33), Bowen Byram (23) 0 - 1
2nd Period
02:15 BUF Jason Zucker (18) PP Rasmus Dahlin (43), Tage Thompson (34) 0 - 2
05:10 BUF Alex Tuch (26) PP Tage Thompson (35), Noah Ostlund (14) 0 - 3
07:55 TBL Corey Perry (13) Nikita Kucherov (69), Darren Raddysh (39) 1 - 3
11:07 BUF Alex Tuch (27) SH Bowen Byram (24) 1 - 4
12:26 TBL Nikita Kucherov (33) PP Darren Raddysh (40) 2 - 4
14:46 TBL Zemgus Girgensons (8) Yanni Gourde (16), J.J. Moser (16) 3 - 4
17:37 TBL J.J. Moser (6) Conor Geekie (2) 4 - 4
3rd Period
00:59 TBL Nikita Kucherov (34) Brandon Hagel (29), J.J. Moser (17) 5 - 4
05:46 TBL Brayden Point (16) Unassisted 6 - 4
06:12 BUF Sam Carrick (5) Zach Benson (21), Michael Kesselring (2) 6 - 5
09:48 TBL Brandon Hagel (30) Anthony Cirelli (23), Darren Raddysh (41) 7 - 5
11:03 BUF Rasmus Dahlin (13) Tage Thompson (36), Bowen Byram (25) 7 - 6
14:29 BUF Jason Zucker (19) Ryan McLeod (33) 7 - 7
15:43 BUF Josh Doan (21) PP Jason Zucker (15), Rasmus Dahlin (44) 7 - 8

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
04:36 TBL Darren Raddysh Slashing 2
04:36 TBL Brandon Hagel Boarding 2
04:36 TBL Darren Raddysh Fighting 5
04:36 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Fighting 5
08:20 TBL Erik Cernak Interference 2
08:54 BUF Sam Carrick Fighting 5
08:54 TBL Scott Sabourin Fighting 5
09:13 TBL Charle-Edouard D'Astous Roughing 2
09:13 BUF Bowen Byram Roughing 2
09:13 TBL Brandon Hagel Fighting 5
09:13 BUF Peyton Krebs Fighting 5
09:13 BUF Bowen Byram Misconduct 10
09:13 TBL Charle-Edouard D'Astous Misconduct 10
10:40 BUF Mattias Samuelsson Slashing 2
10:40 TBL Nikita Kucherov Slashing 2
14:59 TBL Erik Cernak Unsportsmanlike conduct 2
14:59 BUF Michael Kesselring Unsportsmanlike conduct 2
16:41 BUF Noah Ostlund Unsportsmanlike conduct 2
2nd Period
00:02 BUF Michael Kesselring Fighting 5
00:02 TBL Erik Cernak Fighting 5
00:06 TBL Corey Perry Fighting 5
00:06 BUF Beck Malenstyn Fighting 5
01:31 TBL Ryan McDonagh High sticking 2
03:35 TBL Brandon Hagel Roughing 2
03:35 TBL Brandon Hagel Roughing 2
10:56 BUF Owen Power High sticking 2
3rd Period
15:03 TBL Zemgus Girgensons Slashing 2
20:00 TBL Anthony Cirelli Charging 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Tampa Bay Lightning 62 45 29 7 4.0 51.1
Buffalo Sabres 62 53 42 8 4.3 48.9

How the game went

6420246Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadTampa Bay Lightning 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 Tampa Bay Lightning had.

Expected goals

Tampa Bay Lightning: 4.0 expected, 7 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 4.3 expected, 8 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndTBL goal, 7:55 of 2nd, a 15% chanceTBL goal, 12:26 of 2nd, a 5% chanceTBL goal, 14:46 of 2nd, a 16% chanceTBL goal, 17:37 of 2nd, a 16% chanceTBL goal, 0:59 of 3rd, a 9% chanceTBL goal, 5:46 of 3rd, a 30% chanceTBL goal, 9:48 of 3rd, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 8:26 of 1st, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 2:15 of 2nd, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 5:10 of 2nd, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 11:07 of 2nd, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 6:12 of 3rd, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 11:03 of 3rd, a 16% chanceBUF goal, 14:29 of 3rd, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 15:43 of 3rd, a 27% chanceBUF 4.3TBL 4.0

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

Tampa Bay Lightning
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.

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nikita Kucherov · Anthony Cirelli · Brandon Hagel9:0250.053.11-0
Yanni Gourde · Zemgus Girgensons · Pontus Holmberg7:4464.749.91-1
Jake Guentzel · Oliver Bjorkstrand · Brayden Point5:1955.656.30-0
Corey Perry · Scott Sabourin · Conor Geekie3:3440.053.71-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Darren Raddysh · J.J. Moser11:0052.444.72-1
Ryan McDonagh · Charle-Edouard D'Astous9:2142.155.21-2
Victor Hedman · Charle-Edouard D'Astous6:0935.339.10-0

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
86 Nikita Kucherov R 2 1 3 1 2 5 5 19:15 0.44 15-14 1.39-0.97
90 J.J. Moser D 1 2 3 2 0 3 2 26:17 0.47 19-15 1.15-1.19
43 Darren Raddysh D 0 3 3 2 7 4 1 23:13 0.19 20-12 1.49-0.84
38 Brandon Hagel L 1 1 2 1 11 2 0 16:42 0.60 14-12 1.17-0.81
21 Brayden Point C 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 17:13 0.72 11-11 0.71-0.34
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 1 0 1 0 2 1 4 15:48 0.22 16-11 0.65-0.71
90 Corey Perry R 1 0 1 2 5 1 0 08:54 0.15 6-9 0.70-0.36
37 Yanni Gourde C 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 18:39 0.20 16-14 0.68-0.85
71 Anthony Cirelli C 0 1 1 1 2 1 4 18:55 0.20 12-13 1.00-0.72
94 Conor Geekie C 0 1 1 0 0 1 6 07:33 0.07 7-6 0.53-0.29
27 Ryan McDonagh D 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 20:41 0.01 13-15 1.02-0.49
28 Oliver Bjorkstrand R 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 14:02 0.16 13-14 0.79-0.42
29 Pontus Holmberg R 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 13:17 0.06 13-12 0.61-0.76
46 Scott Sabourin R 0 0 0 0 5 0 4 04:17 3-4 0.22-0.17
51 Charle-Edouard D'Astous D 0 0 0 -1 12 1 4 18:37 0.08 16-23 1.09-1.05
59 Jake Guentzel C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 17:44 0.26 9-9 0.33-0.19
77 Victor Hedman D 0 0 0 2 0 3 1 20:07 0.15 18-17 1.00-0.77
81 Erik Cernak D 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 06:47 4-4 0.09-0.04
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Jonas Johansson L 42 34 8 58:54 3.86 -4.14

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jason Zucker · Ryan McLeod · Jack Quinn10:4070.888.41-0
Josh Norris · Josh Doan · Noah Ostlund7:1518.24.20-1
Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson · Peyton Krebs5:2145.515.90-1
Sam Carrick · Beck Malenstyn · Zach Benson4:2050.055.81-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Owen Power8:4133.324.80-3
Bowen Byram · Owen Power7:3142.916.00-2
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin5:4425.010.90-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
72 Tage Thompson C 0 4 4 -1 0 3 4 19:39 0.19 13-13 0.66-0.79
17 Jason Zucker L 2 1 3 1 0 6 0 16:42 0.90 17-9 1.20-0.30
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 1 2 3 2 5 1 0 26:16 0.16 18-15 1.19-1.02
24 Bowen Byram D 0 3 3 0 12 7 1 20:12 0.42 18-11 0.95-1.02
89 Alex Tuch R 2 0 2 0 0 4 3 18:54 0.39 11-13 0.21-0.98
91 Josh Doan R 2 0 2 -2 0 4 2 18:25 0.42 7-13 0.09-1.13
10 Sam Carrick C 1 0 1 -2 5 3 3 06:03 0.24 4-8 0.24-0.83
6 Zach Benson L 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 14:15 0.10 12-13 0.76-0.51
7 Michael Kesselring D 0 1 1 1 7 1 0 06:03 0.05 6-2 0.48-0.03
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 1 1 2 0 2 1 21:03 0.18 19-10 1.20-0.49
86 Noah Ostlund C 0 1 1 -1 2 2 1 16:34 0.23 8-15 0.52-1.10
9 Josh Norris C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 17:55 0.05 7-13 0.09-0.85
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -3 5 1 0 08:46 0.03 7-12 0.14-1.07
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 15:19 0.47 20-10 1.23-0.25
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -3 2 3 2 24:57 0.14 20-29 0.77-1.69
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 -4 2 0 0 27:08 0.01 22-28 0.97-1.86
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 -1 5 0 3 06:03 4-6 0.24-0.47
73 Zach Metsa D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 08:55 2-5 0.02-0.24
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 28 22 7 59:21 3.83 -3.17