Game

Red Wings at Sabres

Sabres 4, Red Wings 2 · first star Colten Ellis (0 GA, .935 SV%).

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

Detroit Red Wings 2 at Buffalo Sabres 4

Red Wings DET

2 FINAL 4

Sabres BUF

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 · 7:30 PM ET · KeyBank Center, Buffalo · TV TNT · truTV · HBO MAX

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Red Wings	0	2	0	2	31
Sabres	0	2	2	4	31

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Red Wings 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: DET 31, BUF 31.

DET in red BUF in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Red Wings 31 shots on goal (2 goals, 20 missed, 22 blocked) attacking left; Sabres 31 shots on goal (4 goals, 23 missed, 16 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	DET SOG	DET G	DET ATT	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT
1st	5	0	14	11	0	27
2nd	11	2	27	13	2	28
3rd	15	0	32	7	2	15
Total	31	2	73	31	4	70

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	DET SOG	DET G	BUF SOG	BUF G
Even strength	30	2	20	3
Power play	1	0	9	1
Short-handed	0	0	2	0

Attempt share by period

Red Wings took 51.0% of the shot attempts, and 53.9% of the 104 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 Red Wings hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Red Wings at Sabres
Period	BUF CF%	BUF FF%
1st	65.8	70.4
2nd	50.9	48.8
3rd	31.9	40.0
Game	49.0	51.4

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

Scoring summary

2nd period

03:00 J.T. Compher (1) Albert Johansson (2), Jonatan Berggren (1) · wrist 1–0
11:37 Jason Zucker (4) Jack Quinn (2), Conor Timmins (1) · wrist 1–1
16:28 Tyson Kozak (2) Jack Quinn (3), Mattias Samuelsson (2) · wrist 1–2
18:20 Emmitt Finnie (3) Dylan Larkin (7), Lucas Raymond (4) · tip-in 2–2

3rd period

04:15 Jack Quinn (3) PP Ryan McLeod (1), Bowen Byram (2) · slap 2–3
08:10 Alex Tuch (2) Josh Doan (4), Ryan McLeod (2) · tip-in 2–4

Three stars

Colten Ellis BUF · G #92 · 0 GA, .935 SV%
Jack Quinn BUF · R #22 · 1 G, 2 A
Tyson Kozak BUF · C #48 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	00:35	DET	Simon Edvinsson	tripping	2	Beck Malenstyn
1st	03:04	DET	James van Riemsdyk	hooking	2	Jiri Kulich
1st	19:41	BUF	Zach Benson	slashing	2	Lucas Raymond
2nd	03:33	DET	Dylan Larkin	high sticking	2	Mattias Samuelsson
3rd	02:22	DET	Michael Rasmussen	tripping	2	Tyson Kozak
3rd	09:17	DET	Moritz Seider	interference	2	Zach Benson
3rd	12:49	BUF	Jiri Kulich	holding	2	Jacob Bernard-Docker

Boxscore

Detroit Red Wings

Red Wings skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Emmitt Finnie #58	C	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	13:05
J.T. Compher #37	L	1	0	1	+1	3	0	0	0	42.9	14:53
Dylan Larkin #71	C	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	2	52.0	19:48
Lucas Raymond #23	L	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	18:09
Jonatan Berggren #48	R	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	14:59
Albert Johansson #20	D	0	1	1	+1	1	1	2	0	0.0	15:15
Andrew Copp #18	C	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	68.8	15:41
Marco Kasper #92	C	0	0	0	-2	1	1	2	0	66.7	14:21
Mason Appleton #22	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	0	100.0	13:23
Michael Rasmussen #27	C	0	0	0	-1	3	3	0	2	66.7	14:04
James van Riemsdyk #21	L	0	0	0	+1	1	0	1	2	0.0	13:52
Alex DeBrincat #93	R	0	0	0	-1	3	0	0	0	0.0	16:42
Michael Brandsegg-Nygård #28	R	0	0	0	-1	3	0	0	0	0.0	11:02
Axel Sandin-Pellikka #44	D	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0.0	17:35
Ben Chiarot #8	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	4	0	0.0	22:50
Jacob Bernard-Docker #25	D	0	0	0	+1	3	2	1	0	0.0	13:41
Moritz Seider #53	D	0	0	0	0	5	1	1	2	0.0	26:15
Simon Edvinsson #77	D	0	0	0	-2	0	0	3	2	0.0	17:43

Red Wings goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
John Gibson #36	L	31	27	4	.871	17/20	8/9	56:49

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Jack Quinn #22	R	1	2	3	+2	3	0	0	0	0.0	11:40
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	40.0	17:57
Tyson Kozak #48	C	1	0	1	+1	1	5	2	0	47.6	15:46
Jason Zucker #17	L	1	0	1	0	2	2	0	0	20.0	08:28
Alex Tuch #89	R	1	0	1	0	4	0	4	0	100.0	19:19
Josh Doan #91	R	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	100.0	18:58
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	1	1	+1	3	1	0	0	0.0	19:42
Conor Timmins #21	D	0	1	1	+2	1	1	1	0	0.0	22:39
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	1	1	+1	1	0	2	0	0.0	20:41
Jiri Kulich #20	C	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	2	41.7	15:41
Noah Ostlund #86	C	0	0	0	+2	1	1	1	0	37.5	09:58
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	10:40
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	0	0	-1	5	0	0	0	66.7	19:36
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	0	3	3	2	0	0.0	13:08
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	100.0	21:03
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	19:34
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	0	0.0	21:50
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	09:26

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Colten Ellis #92	W	31	29	2	.935	28/30	1/1	59:54

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.