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Tampa Bay Lightning at Buffalo Sabres

Apr 6, 2026 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Tampa Bay Lightning 2 25
Buffalo Sabres 4 30

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
05:42 BUF Alex Tuch (30) Bowen Byram (29), Ryan McLeod (39) 0 - 1
11:45 TBL Nikita Kucherov (43) PP Jake Guentzel (49), Darren Raddysh (47) 1 - 1
14:04 BUF Josh Norris (11) Josh Doan (25), Zach Benson (27) 1 - 2
2nd Period
03:56 TBL Jake Guentzel (37) Brayden Point (30), Darren Raddysh (48) 2 - 2
07:38 BUF Jason Zucker (23) Bowen Byram (30), Rasmus Dahlin (52) 2 - 3
3rd Period
18:06 BUF Jack Quinn (19) Jason Zucker (18), Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (1) 2 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
01:56 TBL Pontus Holmberg Holding the stick 2
03:33 BUF Alex Tuch Holding the stick 2
07:19 TBL Charle-Edouard D'Astous Tripping 2
10:03 BUF Jordan Greenway Cross checking 2
10:03 BUF Josh Dunne Roughing 2
10:03 TBL Corey Perry Roughing 2
16:37 BUF Josh Doan Tripping 2
19:25 TBL Zemgus Girgensons Slashing 2
2nd Period
04:06 BUF Jack Quinn High sticking 2
10:05 TBL Erik Cernak Interference 2
16:32 BUF Alex Tuch Tripping 2
3rd Period
10:40 BUF Zach Benson Roughing 2
10:40 TBL Jake Guentzel Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Tampa Bay Lightning 51 41 25 2 2.3 51.4
Buffalo Sabres 54 43 30 4 3.8 48.6

How the game went

0510152025Start2nd3rdBuffalo 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: 2.3 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.8 expected, 4 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndTBL goal, 11:45 of 1st, a 6% chanceTBL goal, 3:56 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 5:42 of 1st, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 14:04 of 1st, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 7:38 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 18:06 of 3rd, a 51% chanceBUF 3.8TBL 2.3

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 · Jake Guentzel · Brayden Point5:5188.995.51-0
Yanni Gourde · Zemgus Girgensons · Pontus Holmberg5:220.00.00-0
Nikita Kucherov · Brayden Point · Gage Goncalves4:5456.352.50-0
Oliver Bjorkstrand · Nick Paul · Gage Goncalves3:2350.067.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Darren Raddysh · J.J. Moser10:5752.071.91-1
Charle-Edouard D'Astous · Emil Lilleberg10:2142.955.30-0
Ryan McDonagh · Erik Cernak8:3745.53.80-0

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
59 Jake Guentzel C 1 1 2 -1 2 6 1 24:54 0.76 19-8 0.86-0.32
43 Darren Raddysh D 0 2 2 -2 0 4 0 25:45 0.23 17-16 1.02-0.64
86 Nikita Kucherov R 1 0 1 -1 0 3 0 23:30 0.34 18-11 1.06-0.62
21 Brayden Point C 0 1 1 -1 0 2 1 20:11 0.34 17-9 1.06-0.52
20 Nick Paul L 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 18:05 0.10 15-14 0.37-0.70
27 Ryan McDonagh D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 16:44 0.08 9-10 0.28-0.67
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 11:29 0-7 0.00-0.27
28 Oliver Bjorkstrand R 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 14:57 0.00 11-6 0.22-0.12
29 Pontus Holmberg R 0 0 0 -2 2 0 1 08:21 1-6 0.01-0.30
37 Yanni Gourde C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 14:53 1-9 0.01-0.31
41 Mitchell Chaffee R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 06:23 3-4 0.08-0.07
46 Scott Sabourin R 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 05:58 5-5 0.09-0.43
51 Charle-Edouard D'Astous D 0 0 0 -1 2 3 2 18:02 0.10 12-10 0.27-0.45
78 Emil Lilleberg D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 16:58 0.01 9-11 0.35-0.33
81 Erik Cernak D 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 13:58 0.03 10-6 0.14-0.55
90 Corey Perry R 0 0 0 -2 2 1 0 12:36 0.08 6-9 0.22-0.63
90 J.J. Moser D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 19:54 0.11 15-15 0.96-0.63
93 Gage Goncalves C 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 19:17 0.15 12-14 0.56-0.61
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
88 Andrei Vasilevskiy L 29 26 3 58:05 3.14 +0.14

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Josh Norris · Josh Doan · Zach Benson8:4848.044.21-0
Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson · Peyton Krebs8:4157.160.70-1
Jordan Greenway · Beck Malenstyn · Josh Dunne6:4450.057.70-0
Jason Zucker · Ryan McLeod · Jack Quinn5:5955.691.51-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Bowen Byram · Owen Power9:3463.670.60-0
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin8:5634.833.60-0
Luke Schenn · Logan Stanley7:3435.764.01-1

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
17 Jason Zucker L 1 1 2 2 0 4 0 13:44 0.59 5-5 0.32-0.14
24 Bowen Byram D 0 2 2 2 0 1 0 21:16 0.00 12-6 0.43-0.21
9 Josh Norris C 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 17:10 0.16 12-15 0.61-0.92
22 Jack Quinn R 1 0 1 2 2 4 0 14:24 0.51 5-7 0.32-0.27
89 Alex Tuch R 1 0 1 0 4 6 2 17:59 0.76 10-7 0.47-0.21
6 Zach Benson L 0 1 1 1 2 3 1 17:44 0.46 13-17 0.71-1.00
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 23:01 0.10 14-16 0.75-0.99
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 17:31 7-5 0.48-0.04
91 Josh Doan R 0 1 1 1 2 0 2 14:40 0.07 12-16 0.61-0.88
2 Luke Schenn D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12:54 0.01 7-12 0.44-0.31
8 Logan Stanley D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:40 0.03 7-9 0.48-0.19
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 11:19 0.06 7-7 0.22-0.16
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 12:37 0.01 9-6 0.37-0.20
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 22:44 0.07 14-21 0.60-1.12
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 19:48 0.08 14-8 0.56-0.21
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 12:53 0.03 7-8 0.22-0.27
44 Josh Dunne C 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 07:58 0.12 7-7 0.22-0.16
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 17:56 0.19 8-8 0.31-0.30
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 25 23 2 60:00 2.23 +0.23