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Buffalo Sabres at Vegas Golden Knights

Mar 17, 2026 · T-Mobile Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 25
Vegas Golden Knights 0 29

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
18:02 BUF Josh Doan (22) Unassisted 1 - 0
3rd Period
19:02 BUF Josh Norris (10) Peyton Krebs (22), Mattias Samuelsson (25) 2 - 0

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
01:30 BUF Owen Power Hooking 2
13:08 VGK Braeden Bowman Holding 2
2nd Period
01:23 VGK Brayden McNabb High sticking 2
08:37 BUF Bowen Byram Cross checking 2
3rd Period
03:46 BUF Sam Carrick Boarding 2
09:01 BUF Noah Ostlund Roughing 2
09:01 VGK Brett Howden Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 51 38 25 2 3.1 44.6
Vegas Golden Knights 62 48 29 0 3.2 55.4

How the game went

50510Start2nd3rdVegas Golden Knights 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 Vegas Golden Knights had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 3.1 expected, 2 scored · Vegas Golden Knights: 3.2 expected, 0 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 18:02 of 1st, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 19:02 of 3rd, a 53% chanceVGK 3.2BUF 3.1

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
Vegas Golden Knights

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 · Noah Ostlund · Zach Benson11:3441.451.30-0
Jason Zucker · Ryan McLeod · Jack Quinn10:3425.015.80-0
Sam Carrick · Beck Malenstyn · Tyson Kozak7:3353.827.30-0
Josh Norris · Peyton Krebs · Josh Doan6:5457.181.21-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Bowen Byram · Owen Power15:2135.023.90-0
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin14:0941.943.80-0
Logan Stanley · Zach Metsa9:4352.448.21-0

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
9 Josh Norris C 1 0 1 2 0 5 0 13:28 0.63 12-7 0.98-0.18
91 Josh Doan R 1 0 1 2 0 3 1 13:30 0.26 11-9 0.98-0.24
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 11:10 11-8 0.83-0.24
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 22:20 0.10 16-24 0.86-0.79
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 17:17 0.45 15-17 0.78-0.72
8 Logan Stanley D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 16:18 0.00 12-14 0.46-0.63
10 Sam Carrick C 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 13:40 9-12 0.18-0.62
17 Jason Zucker L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:55 0.07 4-14 0.14-0.90
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 15:41 0.28 7-16 0.36-0.90
24 Bowen Byram D 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 21:31 0.03 9-16 0.60-0.81
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 21:41 11-18 0.41-1.07
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 22:51 0.26 19-21 1.04-0.91
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 12:30 0.05 11-8 0.18-0.47
48 Tyson Kozak C 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 11:10 0.10 7-10 0.16-0.48
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 16:58 7-13 0.20-0.73
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 19:21 0.30 15-18 0.81-0.74
73 Zach Metsa D 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 11:53 0.01 16-10 0.87-0.49
86 Noah Ostlund C 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 15:46 0.07 13-20 0.76-0.82
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W, SO 29 29 0 60:00 3.12 +3.12

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Colton Sissons · Brett Howden · Braeden Bowman10:2147.871.30-0
Tomas Hertl · Mitch Marner · Pavel Dorofeyev10:0278.663.50-0
Mark Stone · Ivan Barbashev · Jack Eichel9:5952.028.90-1
Nic Dowd · Keegan Kolesar · Cole Smith7:2645.544.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brayden McNabb · Shea Theodore15:2256.747.90-0
Noah Hanifin · Rasmus Andersson15:0552.443.70-1
Jeremy Lauzon · Kaedan Korczak12:4861.586.90-0

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
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 18:37 0.25 17-14 0.85-0.98
4 Rasmus Andersson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 21:15 0.21 24-22 0.77-1.03
5 Jeremy Lauzon D 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 15:40 0.06 10-5 0.73-0.10
6 Kaedan Korczak D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:03 9-5 0.68-0.10
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 20:06 0.09 13-13 0.35-0.87
15 Colton Sissons C 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 13:49 0.13 13-17 0.86-0.56
15 Noah Hanifin D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 20:23 0.02 24-21 0.81-1.04
16 Pavel Dorofeyev R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 17:18 0.25 16-3 0.80-0.40
21 Brett Howden C 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 13:56 0.10 12-13 0.82-0.32
22 Cole Smith R 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 10:03 0.07 9-7 0.37-0.23
26 Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 11:17 0.10 7-10 0.25-0.48
27 Shea Theodore D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 20:37 0.20 18-15 0.85-0.97
42 Braeden Bowman R 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 14:04 0.35 14-16 0.87-0.42
48 Tomas Hertl C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 5 17:39 0.45 17-3 0.88-0.40
49 Ivan Barbashev L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 14:31 0.04 19-14 0.47-0.91
55 Keegan Kolesar R 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 10:40 0.06 8-9 0.29-0.43
61 Mark Stone R 0 0 0 -2 0 3 1 19:10 0.57 14-13 0.39-0.87
93 Mitch Marner R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 22:23 0.30 11-5 0.70-0.45
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
33 Adin Hill L 24 23 1 59:29 2.51 +1.51