Game

Sabres at Maple Leafs

Maple Leafs 4, Sabres 3 in overtime · first star John Tavares (1 G, 1 A).

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

Buffalo Sabres 3 at Toronto Maple Leafs 4

Sabres BUF

3 FINAL/OT 4

Maple Leafs TOR

Saturday, October 25, 2025 · 5:00 PM ET · Scotiabank Arena, Toronto · TV SN1

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	OT	T	SOG
Sabres	1	1	1	0	3	26
Maple Leafs	1	1	1	1	4	23

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Maple Leafs attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 2 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: BUF 26, TOR 23.

BUF in red TOR in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 26 shots on goal (3 goals, 9 missed, 21 blocked) attacking left; Maple Leafs 23 shots on goal (4 goals, 13 missed, 15 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	TOR SOG	TOR G	TOR ATT
1st	12	1	26	6	1	20
2nd	6	1	15	11	1	19
3rd	7	1	13	5	1	11
OT	1	0	2	1	1	1
Total	26	3	56	23	4	51

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	TOR SOG	TOR G
Even strength	19	2	18	4
Power play	7	1	4	0
Short-handed	0	0	1	0

Attempt share by period

Sabres took 52.3% of the shot attempts, and 50.6% of the 79 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 Maple Leafs 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 Maple Leafs
Period	TOR CF%	TOR FF%
1st	43.5	44.8
2nd	55.9	62.5
3rd	45.8	43.8
OT	33.3	50.0
Game	47.7	50.7

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

Scoring summary

1st period

13:40 Tage Thompson (3) Jiri Kulich (2), Mattias Samuelsson (3) · wrist 1–0
18:33 Nick Robertson (1) Easton Cowan (3), Auston Matthews (3) · wrist 1–1

2nd period

01:59 Matias Maccelli (2) John Tavares (7), Matthew Knies (7) · tip-in 1–2
14:23 Bowen Byram (1) Conor Timmins (2), Ryan McLeod (4) · wrist 2–2

3rd period

07:06 Tage Thompson (4) PP Jason Zucker (2), Rasmus Dahlin (7) · wrist 3–2
13:10 Dakota Joshua (2) Jake McCabe (2), Brandon Carlo (2) · wrist 3–3

Overtime

01:28 John Tavares (5) Matthew Knies (8) · wrist 3–4

Three stars

John Tavares TOR · C #91 · 1 G, 1 A
Tage Thompson BUF · C #72 · 2 G, 0 A
Jake McCabe TOR · D #22 · 0 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	02:32	BUF	Josh Dunne	interference	2	Matthew Knies
1st	07:05	TOR	Jake McCabe	high sticking	2	Jiri Kulich
1st	10:09	TOR	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	cross checking	2	Peyton Krebs
1st	14:22	BUF	Alex Tuch	instigator	2	Jake McCabe
1st	14:22	TOR	Jake McCabe	fighting (major)	5	Alex Tuch
1st	14:22	BUF	Alex Tuch	fighting (major)	5	Jake McCabe
1st	14:22	BUF	Alex Tuch	instigator misconduct (misconduct)	10	—
2nd	04:21	BUF	Mattias Samuelsson	cross checking	2	John Tavares
2nd	17:12	TOR	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	interference	2	Josh Doan
3rd	06:25	TOR	Simon Benoit	tripping	2	Josh Dunne

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Tage Thompson #72	C	2	0	2	0	5	0	0	0	100.0	18:35
Bowen Byram #4	D	1	0	1	-1	2	0	2	0	0.0	18:21
Jiri Kulich #20	C	0	1	1	+1	1	2	0	0	26.7	15:24
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	1	1	-2	0	0	0	0	33.3	17:47
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	14:54
Conor Timmins #21	D	0	1	1	0	0	1	3	0	0.0	21:48
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	1	1	-1	1	3	2	2	0.0	22:43
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	1	1	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	23:42
Josh Dunne #44	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	100.0	12:14
Noah Ostlund #86	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	20.0	08:39
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	0	0	-1	2	3	2	0	46.2	15:04
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	0	2	6	1	0	0.0	14:19
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	+1	1	0	1	0	0.0	19:50
Alex Tuch #89	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	17	0.0	13:34
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	-2	3	2	1	0	0.0	15:19
Josh Doan #91	R	0	0	0	-2	0	1	0	0	0.0	15:08
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	1	0	0.0	23:55
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	07:08

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen #1	O	23	19	4	.826	14/18	4/4	61:28

Toronto Maple Leafs

Maple Leafs skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
John Tavares #91	C	1	1	2	+2	5	1	0	0	60.0	17:23
Matthew Knies #23	L	0	2	2	+2	1	1	0	0	0.0	22:26
Dakota Joshua #81	C	1	0	1	0	1	5	0	0	0.0	12:55
Matias Maccelli #63	L	1	0	1	+1	2	0	1	0	100.0	15:27
Nick Robertson #89	L	1	0	1	+1	1	2	0	0	0.0	14:54
Auston Matthews #34	C	0	1	1	+1	2	1	2	0	66.7	23:24
Easton Cowan #53	R	0	1	1	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	10:58
Brandon Carlo #25	D	0	1	1	+2	0	0	1	0	0.0	22:19
Jake McCabe #22	D	0	1	1	+1	2	3	5	7	0.0	19:30
Bobby McMann #74	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	100.0	17:52
Calle Jarnkrok #19	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	0	100.0	10:34
Max Domi #11	C	0	0	0	-2	2	0	1	0	50.0	10:29
Nicolas Roy #55	C	0	0	0	+1	1	1	3	0	90.0	16:07
Steven Lorentz #18	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	0	0.0	08:36
Morgan Rielly #44	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	19:29
Oliver Ekman-Larsson #95	D	0	0	0	+1	0	5	1	4	0.0	20:17
Philippe Myers #51	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	2	0	0.0	16:54
Simon Benoit #2	D	0	0	0	-1	1	2	0	2	0.0	18:09

Maple Leafs goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Cayden Primeau #30	W	26	23	3	.885	17/19	6/7	61:28

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.