Game

Panthers at Sabres

Sabres 3, Panthers 0 · first star Alex Lyon (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.

Florida Panthers 0 at Buffalo Sabres 3

Panthers FLA

0 FINAL 3

Sabres BUF

Saturday, October 18, 2025 · 1:00 PM ET · KeyBank Center, Buffalo · TV SN

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Panthers	0	0	0	0	32
Sabres	1	2	0	3	31

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Panthers attack left, Sabres attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 3 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: FLA 32, BUF 31.

FLA in red BUF in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Panthers 32 shots on goal (0 goals, 24 missed, 22 blocked) attacking left; Sabres 31 shots on goal (3 goals, 15 missed, 17 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	FLA SOG	FLA ATT	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT
1st	12	30	8	1	23
2nd	10	21	13	2	22
3rd	10	27	10	0	18
Total	32	78	31	3	63

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	FLA SOG	BUF SOG	BUF G
Even strength	16	24	1
Power play	15	6	2
Short-handed	1	1	0

Attempt share by period

Panthers took 55.3% of the shot attempts, and 47.4% of the 95 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 Panthers hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Panthers at Sabres
Period	BUF CF%	BUF FF%
1st	43.4	42.4
2nd	51.2	56.3
3rd	40.0	37.8
Game	44.7	45.1

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

Scoring summary

1st period

07:13 Josh Doan (1) PP Tage Thompson (3), Rasmus Dahlin (4) · deflected 0–1

2nd period

11:12 Josh Doan (2) PP Jason Zucker (1), Zach Benson (5) · tip-in 0–2
14:20 Owen Power (1) Alex Tuch (3), Peyton Krebs (2) · tip-in 0–3

Three stars

Alex Lyon BUF · G #34 · 0 GA, .000 SV%
Josh Doan BUF · R #91 · 2 G, 0 A
Owen Power BUF · D #25 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	00:09	BUF	Zach Benson	tripping	2	Sam Bennett
1st	03:51	BUF	Bowen Byram	interference	2	Seth Jones
1st	07:07	FLA	Uvis Balinskis	interference	2	Jiri Kulich
1st	13:28	BUF	Bench	too many men on the ice	2	—
1st	19:45	BUF	Peyton Krebs	tripping	2	Niko Mikkola
2nd	00:53	FLA	Anton Lundell	hooking	2	Alex Tuch
2nd	04:14	FLA	Niko Mikkola	holding	2	Tyson Kozak
2nd	05:00	BUF	Jason Zucker	hooking	2	Gustav Forsling
2nd	10:40	FLA	Brad Marchand	interference	2	Rasmus Dahlin
2nd	10:40	FLA	Brad Marchand	roughing	2	Rasmus Dahlin
2nd	10:40	BUF	Tage Thompson	roughing	2	Brad Marchand
2nd	17:04	BUF	Mason Geertsen	abusive language (misconduct)	10	—
2nd	19:48	BUF	Josh Doan	roughing	2	Carter Verhaeghe
2nd	19:48	BUF	Mattias Samuelsson	roughing	2	Eetu Luostarinen
2nd	19:48	FLA	Eetu Luostarinen	roughing	2	Mattias Samuelsson
3rd	07:10	BUF	Conor Timmins	delaying game puck over glass	2	—

Boxscore

Florida Panthers

Panthers skaters · by points
Player	Pos	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Anton Lundell #15	C	-1	0	1	1	2	61.1	18:30
Carter Verhaeghe #23	C	0	4	0	0	0	0.0	20:54
Eetu Luostarinen #27	C	-1	1	1	1	2	0.0	12:30
Evan Rodrigues #17	C	0	2	2	2	0	25.0	15:33
Jesper Boqvist #70	C	0	0	5	3	0	100.0	10:44
Luke Kunin #71	C	0	0	1	1	0	57.1	10:47
Sam Bennett #9	C	0	1	1	1	0	47.1	19:08
Sam Reinhart #13	C	0	2	3	1	0	40.0	23:33
A.J. Greer #10	L	0	1	2	0	0	0.0	09:12
Brad Marchand #63	L	-1	4	0	0	4	0.0	15:37
Jonah Gadjovich #12	L	0	0	4	0	0	0.0	09:14
Mackie Samoskevich #11	R	0	7	1	0	0	0.0	17:46
Aaron Ekblad #5	D	-1	3	2	4	0	0.0	23:07
Gustav Forsling #42	D	-1	1	1	0	0	0.0	21:06
Jeff Petry #2	D	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	18:16
Niko Mikkola #77	D	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	06:53
Seth Jones #3	D	0	4	3	0	0	0.0	23:48
Uvis Balinskis #26	D	0	1	2	3	2	0.0	18:53

Panthers goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Sergei Bobrovsky #72	L	31	28	3	.903	23/24	4/6	59:51

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Josh Doan #91	R	2	0	2	0	6	2	0	2	0.0	13:55
Owen Power #25	D	1	0	1	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	23:44
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	1	1	+1	2	3	0	2	50.0	14:25
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	1	1	0	2	3	0	2	50.0	15:34
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	2	66.7	14:39
Zach Benson #6	L	0	1	1	0	2	1	0	2	0.0	17:25
Alex Tuch #89	R	0	1	1	+1	2	1	0	0	0.0	20:22
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	1	1	0	4	1	2	0	0.0	22:36
Jiri Kulich #20	C	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	47.1	15:37
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	0	0	+1	0	1	1	0	57.1	18:15
Tyson Kozak #48	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	36.4	09:47
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	0.0	09:23
Mason Geertsen #55	L	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	10	0.0	02:06
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	16:20
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	2	0.0	24:17
Conor Timmins #21	D	0	0	0	+1	3	1	6	2	0.0	24:30
Jacob Bryson #78	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	01:16
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	2	0.0	22:01

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Alex Lyon #34	W	32	32	0	1.000	16/16	15/15	59:48

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.