Game

Rangers at Sabres

Rangers 4, Sabres 0 · first star Igor Shesterkin (0 GA, .000 SV%).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

New York Rangers 4 at Buffalo Sabres 0

Rangers NYR

4 FINAL 0

Sabres BUF

Thursday, October 9, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · KeyBank Center, Buffalo

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Rangers	1	0	3	4	33
Sabres	0	0	0	0	37

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Rangers attack left, Sabres attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 5 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: NYR 33, BUF 37.

NYR in red BUF in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Rangers 33 shots on goal (4 goals, 13 missed, 14 blocked) attacking left; Sabres 37 shots on goal (0 goals, 15 missed, 16 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	NYR SOG	NYR G	NYR ATT	BUF SOG	BUF ATT
1st	16	1	27	11	18
2nd	5	0	12	14	29
3rd	12	3	21	12	21
Total	33	4	60	37	68

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	NYR SOG	NYR G	BUF SOG
Even strength	26	4	28
Power play	6	0	9
Short-handed	1	0	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0

Attempt share by period

Sabres took 53.1% of the shot attempts, and 55.0% of the 91 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Sabres and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Rangers hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Rangers at Sabres
Period	BUF CF%	BUF FF%
1st	40.0	42.9
2nd	70.7	70.0
3rd	50.0	48.5
Game	53.1	53.1

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

1st period

11:43 Alexis Lafrenière (1) Vincent Trocheck (1), Artemi Panarin (1) · wrist 1–0

3rd period

14:46 Carson Soucy (1) Will Borgen (1), J.T. Miller (1) · wrist 2–0
17:11 J.T. Miller (1) Braden Schneider (1), Alexis Lafrenière (1) · tip-in 3–0
17:25 Adam Fox (1) EN Sam Carrick (1) · wrist 4–0

Three stars

Igor Shesterkin NYR · G #31 · 0 GA, .000 SV%
Alexis Lafrenière NYR · L #13 · 1 G, 1 A
Carson Soucy NYR · D #24 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	07:14	BUF	Mason Geertsen	tripping	2	Mika Zibanejad
2nd	00:28	NYR	Will Cuylle	tripping	2	Peyton Krebs
2nd	06:22	NYR	Urho Vaakanainen	interference	2	Josh Doan
2nd	14:28	NYR	Braden Schneider	roughing	2	Jason Zucker
2nd	14:28	BUF	Jason Zucker	roughing	2	Braden Schneider
2nd	17:58	NYR	Will Borgen	roughing removing opponents helmet	2	Jason Zucker
3rd	00:04	BUF	Tage Thompson	high sticking	2	Will Cuylle
3rd	06:54	NYR	Will Cuylle	tripping	2	Josh Doan
3rd	09:24	BUF	Justin Danforth	hooking	2	Urho Vaakanainen

Boxscore

New York Rangers

Rangers skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
J.T. Miller #8	C	1	1	2	+3	1	4	0	0	66.7	19:52
Alexis Lafrenière #13	L	1	1	2	+2	5	1	0	0	0.0	15:54
Adam Fox #23	D	1	0	1	+1	4	0	4	0	0.0	23:17
Carson Soucy #24	D	1	0	1	+2	2	1	0	0	0.0	19:40
Sam Carrick #39	C	0	1	1	+1	0	3	2	0	50.0	12:36
Vincent Trocheck #16	C	0	1	1	+1	1	0	2	0	63.6	07:48
Artemi Panarin #10	L	0	1	1	+3	2	0	0	0	0.0	21:10
Braden Schneider #4	D	0	1	1	+1	3	6	0	2	0.0	18:49
Will Borgen #17	D	0	1	1	+2	1	2	1	2	0.0	16:23
Adam Edstrom #84	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	09:45
Matt Rempe #73	C	0	0	0	+1	1	5	1	0	0.0	09:30
Mika Zibanejad #93	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	71.4	18:57
Noah Laba #42	C	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	77.8	13:21
Conor Sheary #43	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	15:21
Will Cuylle #50	L	0	0	0	+1	2	2	2	4	100.0	16:24
Taylor Raddysh #14	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	14:50
Urho Vaakanainen #18	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	2	0.0	15:00
Vladislav Gavrikov #44	D	0	0	0	+2	2	0	0	0	0.0	21:23

Rangers goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Igor Shesterkin #31	W	37	37	0	1.000	28/28	9/9	60:00

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Jiri Kulich #20	C	0	2	0	1	0	25.0	16:42
Josh Norris #9	C	0	4	1	0	0	33.3	18:51
Peyton Krebs #19	C	-2	0	2	0	0	33.3	11:55
Ryan McLeod #71	C	-3	2	0	1	0	37.5	18:22
Tage Thompson #72	C	-1	5	1	0	2	28.6	19:34
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	-2	1	4	0	0	0.0	08:24
Jason Zucker #17	L	-1	5	3	0	2	0.0	19:23
Mason Geertsen #55	L	-1	0	2	0	2	0.0	04:26
Alex Tuch #89	R	-1	6	0	0	0	0.0	22:32
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	17:56
Josh Doan #91	R	-1	2	1	0	0	0.0	12:21
Justin Danforth #15	R	-1	2	0	2	2	50.0	09:33
Bowen Byram #4	D	-2	1	3	0	0	0.0	24:46
Conor Timmins #21	D	-1	1	1	1	0	0.0	19:38
Jacob Bryson #78	D	-1	0	0	1	0	0.0	11:58
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	-1	1	3	2	0	0.0	19:26
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	-2	4	3	1	0	0.0	25:06
Ryan Johnson #33	D	-1	0	0	2	0	0.0	11:16

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Alex Lyon #34	L	32	29	3	.906	22/25	6/6	59:51

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.