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Scoring Summary

Period Time Team Goal Strength Score
1 05:25 BUF Rasmus Dahlin (12) — Owen Power (14) EV 1-0
1 06:15 BUF Josh Norris (7) — Josh Doan (22) , Zach Metsa (2) EV 2-0
1 08:18 BUF Josh Norris (8) — Bowen Byram (21) , Zach Benson (20) EV 3-0
1 15:06 BUF Tage Thompson (32) — Peyton Krebs (20) , Rasmus Dahlin (38) EV 4-0
2 01:54 BUF Zach Metsa (2) EV 5-0
2 16:03 TBL Dominic James (7) — Oliver Bjorkstrand (18) , Victor Hedman (14) EV 5-1
3 03:43 BUF Alex Tuch (24) — Rasmus Dahlin (39) , Jack Quinn (26) PP 6-1
3 05:27 TBL Victor Hedman (1) — Darren Raddysh (37) EV 6-2

Penalty Summary

Period Per Time Team Player Penalty Min M
1 10:44 BUF Zach Benson Cross Checking 2
2 05:47 TBL Brayden Point Slashing 2
2 05:47 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Cross Checking 2
2 10:26 TBL Emil Lilleberg Roughing 2
2 12:10 TBL Jake Guentzel Delaying Game Puck Over Glass 2
2 16:03 TBL Victor Hedman Roughing 2
2 16:03 BUF Mattias Samuelsson Roughing 2
3 01:28 BUF Alex Tuch Roughing 2
3 01:28 TBL Charle-Edouard D'Astous Roughing 2
3 01:28 BUF Michael Kesselring Cross Checking 2
3 02:02 TBL Jake Guentzel Abuse Of Officials 2
3 02:02 TBL Jake Guentzel Abusive Language 10
3 06:23 TBL Darren Raddysh Cross Checking 2
3 12:48 TBL Anthony Cirelli Interference 2
3 17:12 BUF Michael Kesselring Cross Checking 2
3 20:00 TBL Charle-Edouard D'Astous Roughing 2

Team Statistics

Statistic Buffalo Sabres Tampa Bay Lightning
Shots 35 38
Faceoff % 48.4% 51.6%
Hits 16 28
Blocked Shots 14 5
Giveaways 15 11
Takeaways 2 6

Skaters

Buffalo Sabres

# Player Pos G A PTS +/- PIM S HIT BLK GV TK SHFT TOI
6 Zach Benson L 0 1 1 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 19 13:39
9 Josh Norris C 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 22 15:03
17 Jason Zucker L 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 17 12:05
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 1 1 -1 0 0 5 0 0 0 18 10:59
22 Jack Quinn R 0 1 1 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 20 14:21
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 2 0 0 19 12:26
48 Tyson Kozak C 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 19 13:04
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 27 20:21
72 Tage Thompson C 1 0 1 -1 0 6 0 0 1 1 20 16:00
86 Noah Ostlund C 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 20 14:46
89 Alex Tuch R 1 0 1 -1 2 5 1 0 0 0 25 18:15
91 Josh Doan R 0 1 1 2 0 2 1 1 1 0 24 16:08
4 Bowen Byram D 0 1 1 2 0 4 0 2 0 0 25 22:45
8 Michael Kesselring D 0 0 0 -1 4 0 0 0 0 0 15 08:40
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 1 2 1 1 28 24:08
25 Owen Power D 0 1 1 2 0 4 0 0 2 0 27 19:59
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 1 2 3 2 2 2 0 0 3 0 29 24:32
73 Zach Metsa D 1 1 2 2 0 3 0 2 2 0 18 13:08

Tampa Bay Lightning

# Player Pos G A PTS +/- PIM S HIT BLK GV TK SHFT TOI
17 Dominic James C 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 17 13:06
21 Brayden Point C 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 20 17:52
22 Oliver Bjorkstrand R 0 1 1 -1 0 4 2 0 0 1 18 16:24
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 3 0 0 0 23 15:03
29 Pontus Holmberg R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 20 13:52
37 Yanni Gourde C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 5 0 1 0 21 15:59
38 Brandon Hagel L 0 0 0 -1 0 8 0 1 4 0 28 21:05
59 Jake Guentzel C 0 0 0 -1 14 3 0 0 3 0 16 13:02
71 Anthony Cirelli C 0 0 0 -2 2 1 2 0 1 0 22 14:01
86 Nikita Kucherov R 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 0 1 0 21 20:11
93 Gage Goncalves C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 0 0 0 11 08:17
27 Ryan McDonagh D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 16:16
43 Darren Raddysh D 0 1 1 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 21 21:18
51 Charle-Edouard D'Astous D 0 0 0 -2 4 0 3 0 0 1 18 15:50
77 Victor Hedman D 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 22 16:53
78 Emil Lilleberg D 0 0 0 -1 2 3 3 0 0 1 21 16:45
81 Erik Cernak D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 1 0 1 21 14:39
90 J.J. Moser D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 1 1 0 20 15:46

Goalies

Buffalo Sabres

# Goalie SA SV GA SV% EV PP SH TOI
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen 38 36 2 .947 31/33 4/4 1/1 59:41
92 Colten Ellis 0 0 0 — 0/0 0/0 0/0 00:00

Tampa Bay Lightning

# Goalie SA SV GA SV% EV PP SH TOI
31 Jonas Johansson 21 20 1 .952 13/13 6/7 1/1 38:06
88 Andrei Vasilevskiy 14 9 5 .643 9/14 0/0 0/0 21:54
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