Game

Sabres at Canadiens

Canadiens 4, Sabres 2 · first star Juraj Slafkovský (1 G, 0 A).

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

Buffalo Sabres 2 at Montreal Canadiens 4

Sabres BUF

2 FINAL 4

Canadiens MTL

Monday, October 20, 2025 · 7:30 PM ET · Centre Bell, Montreal · TV Prime

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Sabres	0	1	1	2	32
Canadiens	1	0	3	4	32

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Canadiens attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 1 mark in a team's own end is an attempt logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: BUF 32, MTL 32.

BUF in red MTL in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 32 shots on goal (2 goals, 19 missed, 22 blocked) attacking left; Canadiens 32 shots on goal (4 goals, 15 missed, 12 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	MTL SOG	MTL G	MTL ATT
1st	6	0	23	14	1	27
2nd	11	1	20	4	0	14
3rd	15	1	30	14	3	18
Total	32	2	73	32	4	59

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	MTL SOG	MTL G
Even strength	28	2	30	4
Power play	4	0	2	0
Short-handed	0	0	0	0
Into an empty net	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Sabres took 55.3% of the shot attempts, and 52.7% of the 110 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 Canadiens and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Sabres hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Sabres at Canadiens
Period	MTL CF%	MTL FF%
1st	54.0	58.3
2nd	41.2	34.8
3rd	37.5	46.1
Game	44.7	48.0

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

Scoring summary

1st period

08:29 Oliver Kapanen (4) Ivan Demidov (4), Alex Newhook (2) · backhand 0–1

2nd period

06:51 Jiri Kulich (2) Zach Benson (6) · backhand 1–1

3rd period

02:57 Juraj Slafkovský (3) Noah Dobson (3), Nick Suzuki (8) · snap 1–2
11:38 Lane Hutson (1) Alex Newhook (3) · wrist 1–3
12:30 Tyson Kozak (1) Jack Quinn (1), Rasmus Dahlin (5) · snap 2–3
19:29 Jake Evans (1) EN Nick Suzuki (9) · snap 2–4

Three stars

Juraj Slafkovský MTL · L #20 · 1 G, 0 A
Jake Evans MTL · C #71 · 1 G, 0 A
Jakub Dobes MTL · G #75 · 0 GA, .938 SV%

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	16:09	MTL	Juraj Slafkovský	roughing	2	Zach Metsa
1st	16:09	BUF	Zach Metsa	roughing	2	Juraj Slafkovský
2nd	10:49	MTL	Brendan Gallagher	slashing	2	Alex Lyon
3rd	08:12	BUF	Zach Benson	tripping	2	Cole Caufield
3rd	15:16	MTL	Juraj Slafkovský	roughing	2	Tage Thompson
3rd	15:16	BUF	Tage Thompson	roughing	2	Juraj Slafkovský

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Jiri Kulich #20	C	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	30.0	18:00
Tyson Kozak #48	C	1	0	1	+1	2	2	0	0	75.0	10:59
Zach Benson #6	L	0	1	1	-1	7	1	0	2	0.0	21:11
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	13:17
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	1	1	-1	4	0	0	0	0.0	26:52
Josh Dunne #44	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	06:35
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	0	0	-1	1	4	1	0	44.4	13:29
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	0	47.6	19:58
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	0	0	-2	3	2	1	2	16.7	20:18
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	0	0	-2	1	0	0	0	0.0	12:35
Mason Geertsen #55	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	05:27
Alex Tuch #89	R	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	20:08
Josh Doan #91	R	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	15:53
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	1	0	0.0	23:07
Conor Timmins #21	D	0	0	0	-2	0	0	1	0	0.0	18:47
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	0	0	-1	1	2	2	0	0.0	19:13
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	-2	2	1	0	0	0.0	21:17
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	1	2	0.0	09:02

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Alex Lyon #34	L	31	28	3	.903	26/29	2/2	57:52

Montreal Canadiens

Canadiens skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Alex Newhook #15	C	0	2	2	+1	1	1	2	0	57.1	15:44
Nick Suzuki #14	C	0	2	2	+2	1	0	1	0	60.0	21:37
Jake Evans #71	C	1	0	1	+1	8	2	2	0	58.8	18:16
Oliver Kapanen #91	C	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	66.7	12:34
Juraj Slafkovský #20	L	1	0	1	+1	3	3	1	4	0.0	17:17
Lane Hutson #48	D	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	19:59
Ivan Demidov #93	R	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	12:27
Noah Dobson #53	D	0	1	1	+1	3	0	1	0	0.0	20:46
Joe Veleno #90	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	50.0	09:27
Owen Beck #62	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	0	40.0	08:01
Brendan Gallagher #11	R	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	2	0.0	15:46
Cole Caufield #13	R	0	0	0	+1	1	3	0	0	0.0	17:48
Josh Anderson #17	R	0	0	0	+2	4	2	1	0	0.0	15:55
Zachary Bolduc #76	R	0	0	0	-1	2	2	0	0	0.0	11:03
Alexandre Carrier #45	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	5	0	0.0	18:36
Arber Xhekaj #72	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	13:08
Jayden Struble #47	D	0	0	0	+1	2	2	1	0	0.0	19:09
Mike Matheson #8	D	0	0	0	+2	0	2	4	0	0.0	26:30

Canadiens goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jakub Dobes #75	W	32	30	2	.938	26/28	4/4	59:57

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.