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Buffalo Sabres at Ottawa Senators

Apr 2, 2026 · Canadian Tire Centre

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 1 22
Ottawa Senators 4 24

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
08:49 BUF Mattias Samuelsson (13) Bowen Byram (28), Peyton Krebs (26) 1 - 0
15:18 OTT Dylan Cozens (26) Brady Tkachuk (32), Ridly Greig (19) 1 - 1
3rd Period
05:55 OTT Lars Eller (5) Artem Zub (23), Warren Foegele (4) 1 - 2
17:42 OTT Ridly Greig (12) Jordan Spence (22) 1 - 3
18:42 OTT Shane Pinto (20) Unassisted 1 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
03:39 BUF Zach Benson Holding 2
09:59 OTT Brady Tkachuk Slashing 2
12:36 OTT Jordan Spence Interference 2
17:09 BUF Logan Stanley Fighting 5
17:09 OTT Brady Tkachuk Fighting 5
2nd Period
11:01 BUF Ryan McLeod Cross checking 2
3rd Period
18:42 BUF Josh Norris Abuse of officials 10

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 46 36 22 1 2.1 45.9
Ottawa Senators 54 38 24 4 3.6 54.1

How the game went

864202468Start2nd3rdOttawa Senators 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 Ottawa Senators had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.1 expected, 1 scored · Ottawa Senators: 3.6 expected, 4 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 8:49 of 2nd, a 1% chanceOTT goal, 15:18 of 2nd, a 11% chanceOTT goal, 5:55 of 3rd, a 14% chanceOTT goal, 17:42 of 3rd, a 80% chanceOTT goal, 18:42 of 3rd, a 65% chanceOTT 3.6BUF 2.1

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
Ottawa Senators

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
Josh Norris · Josh Doan · Zach Benson10:2650.046.90-1
Jason Zucker · Ryan McLeod · Jack Quinn9:1841.261.80-0
Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson · Peyton Krebs8:5855.049.31-0
Jordan Greenway · Beck Malenstyn · Josh Dunne6:0640.06.30-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Bowen Byram · Owen Power9:1455.691.80-0
Logan Stanley · Zach Metsa7:3769.242.90-1
Rasmus Dahlin · Bowen Byram6:5740.046.00-1

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
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 1 0 1 0 0 2 3 20:49 0.08 11-18 0.33-0.70
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 1 1 1 0 2 4 12:16 0.21 14-11 0.43-0.78
24 Bowen Byram D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 0 22:58 0.16 16-20 0.62-0.70
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 -2 2 1 1 17:35 0.31 12-10 0.56-0.50
8 Logan Stanley D 0 0 0 -1 5 2 3 13:30 0.04 12-9 0.42-0.61
9 Josh Norris C 0 0 0 -2 10 1 1 16:10 0.12 14-12 0.50-0.73
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 11:39 4-10 0.12-0.30
17 Jason Zucker L 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 16:48 9-14 0.39-0.25
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 15:13 0.24 13-13 0.56-0.23
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 19:34 0.03 10-9 0.42-0.35
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 22:37 0.12 16-18 0.94-0.61
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 09:33 2-6 0.01-0.18
44 Josh Dunne C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 07:17 2-4 0.01-0.17
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 20:41 0.05 11-19 0.56-0.39
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 17:12 0.20 12-12 0.41-0.56
73 Zach Metsa D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 16:04 0.01 13-18 0.26-0.69
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 18:57 0.29 12-16 0.36-0.52
91 Josh Doan R 0 0 0 -2 0 2 1 18:25 0.25 11-11 0.55-0.91
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen L 22 20 2 58:42 2.09 +0.09

Ottawa Senators

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Claude Giroux · Michael Amadio · Shane Pinto11:1652.663.30-0
Fabian Zetterlund · Drake Batherson · Tim Stützle11:0260.041.20-0
Brady Tkachuk · Dylan Cozens · Ridly Greig10:2450.051.31-0
Lars Eller · Nick Cousins · Warren Foegele5:1544.451.51-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jordan Spence · Artem Zub10:1750.046.40-0
Lassi Thomson · Jordan Spence10:0481.092.81-0
Cameron Crotty · Nikolas Matinpalo6:5750.055.00-0

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
71 Ridly Greig C 1 1 2 2 0 1 2 17:08 9-13 0.33-0.54
12 Shane Pinto C 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 20:10 0.16 17-13 0.75-0.42
20 Lars Eller C 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 08:18 0.14 8-7 0.29-0.21
24 Dylan Cozens C 1 0 1 1 0 6 4 16:09 0.53 9-12 0.39-0.44
2 Artem Zub D 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 24:24 16-20 0.78-0.90
8 Brady Tkachuk L 0 1 1 1 7 0 3 15:55 10-11 0.39-0.42
10 Jordan Spence D 0 1 1 3 2 2 2 30:48 0.17 32-19 1.04-0.69
37 Warren Foegele L 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 09:42 0.09 9-6 0.30-0.17
5 Cameron Crotty D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13:37 0.03 4-6 0.26-0.26
18 Tim Stützle C 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 19:57 0.14 14-9 0.48-0.38
19 Drake Batherson R 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 15:18 0.04 10-7 0.27-0.37
20 Fabian Zetterlund L 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 14:12 0.17 13-6 0.38-0.36
21 Nick Cousins C 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 10:25 0.18 14-9 0.54-0.29
22 Michael Amadio R 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 18:53 15-15 0.79-0.53
28 Claude Giroux R 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 13:52 0.48 12-9 0.65-0.35
33 Nikolas Matinpalo D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 24:29 0.01 14-18 0.59-0.63
43 Tyler Kleven D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 01:48 0-2 0.00-0.21
60 Lassi Thomson D 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 20:55 0.03 24-13 0.96-0.30
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark W 22 21 1 60:00 2.03 +1.03