Game

Blue Jackets at Sabres

Blue Jackets 4, Sabres 3 in overtime · first star Miles Wood (2 G, 0 A).

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

Columbus Blue Jackets 4 at Buffalo Sabres 3

Blue Jackets CBJ

4 FINAL/OT 3

Sabres BUF

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 · 6:45 PM ET · KeyBank Center, Buffalo

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	OT	T	SOG
Blue Jackets	1	1	1	1	4	39
Sabres	0	2	1	0	3	38

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Blue Jackets attack left, Sabres 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: CBJ 39, BUF 38.

CBJ in red BUF in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Blue Jackets 39 shots on goal (4 goals, 17 missed, 21 blocked) attacking left; Sabres 38 shots on goal (3 goals, 12 missed, 16 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	CBJ SOG	CBJ G	CBJ ATT	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT
1st	14	1	24	9	0	19
2nd	10	1	30	12	2	21
3rd	13	1	21	16	1	25
OT	2	1	2	1	0	1
Total	39	4	77	38	3	66

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	CBJ SOG	CBJ G	BUF SOG	BUF G
Even strength	38	3	35	3
Power play	1	1	3	0
Short-handed	0	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Blue Jackets took 53.9% of the shot attempts, and 54.5% of the 134 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 Blue Jackets hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Blue Jackets at Sabres
Period	BUF CF%	BUF FF%
1st	44.2	37.5
2nd	41.2	50.0
3rd	54.4	53.9
OT	33.3	33.3
Game	46.1	47.2

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

Scoring summary

1st period

06:09 Egor Chinakhov (2) Unassisted · backhand 1–0

2nd period

11:39 Josh Doan (3) Alex Tuch (5), Conor Timmins (3) · wrist 1–1
14:12 Ryan McLeod (3) Bowen Byram (4), Alex Tuch (6) · wrist 1–2
19:44 Zach Werenski (2) PP Kirill Marchenko (4), Sean Monahan (4) · slap 2–2

3rd period

02:40 Josh Dunne (1) Beck Malenstyn (1), Mattias Samuelsson (4) · poke 2–3
13:55 Miles Wood (2) Egor Chinakhov (2), Dante Fabbro (2) · tip-in 3–3

Overtime

02:53 Miles Wood (3) Zach Werenski (4), Isac Lundeström (2) · tip-in 4–3

Three stars

Miles Wood CBJ · L #11 · 2 G, 0 A
Josh Dunne BUF · C #44 · 1 G, 0 A
Jet Greaves CBJ · G #73 · 0 GA, .921 SV%

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	18:27	CBJ	Damon Severson	roughing	2	Beck Malenstyn
2nd	19:20	BUF	Alex Tuch	interference	2	Denton Mateychuk
2nd	20:00	CBJ	Kirill Marchenko	roughing	2	Josh Dunne
2nd	20:00	BUF	Bowen Byram	roughing	2	Kirill Marchenko
2nd	20:00	CBJ	Dmitri Voronkov	roughing	2	Josh Dunne

Boxscore

Columbus Blue Jackets

Blue Jackets skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Miles Wood #11	L	2	0	2	+3	3	4	0	0	50.0	13:24
Egor Chinakhov #59	R	1	1	2	+2	2	1	0	0	0.0	12:49
Zach Werenski #8	D	1	1	2	+1	5	0	3	0	0.0	27:59
Isac Lundeström #21	C	0	1	1	+3	1	0	1	0	66.7	13:48
Sean Monahan #23	C	0	1	1	-1	2	1	0	0	58.8	16:05
Kirill Marchenko #86	R	0	1	1	-1	6	0	1	2	0.0	15:52
Dante Fabbro #15	D	0	1	1	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	14:54
Adam Fantilli #19	C	0	0	0	-1	1	4	1	0	83.3	17:31
Boone Jenner #38	C	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	0	57.1	16:56
Charlie Coyle #3	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	46.7	14:44
Cole Sillinger #4	C	0	0	0	-2	1	2	0	0	0.0	15:33
Kent Johnson #91	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	15:38
Dmitri Voronkov #10	L	0	0	0	-1	3	3	0	2	0.0	13:59
Mathieu Olivier #24	R	0	0	0	-1	2	3	0	0	0.0	15:24
Damon Severson #78	D	0	0	0	-2	1	2	2	2	0.0	20:07
Denton Mateychuk #5	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	3	0	0.0	22:55
Ivan Provorov #9	D	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	0	0.0	26:13
Jake Christiansen #2	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	10:48

Blue Jackets goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jet Greaves #73	W	38	35	3	.921	32/35	3/3	62:53

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Alex Tuch #89	R	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	15:39
Josh Dunne #44	C	1	0	1	+1	3	1	1	0	0.0	12:45
Ryan McLeod #71	C	1	0	1	+1	1	0	0	0	50.0	16:17
Josh Doan #91	R	1	0	1	+1	5	0	1	0	0.0	13:50
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	1	1	0	2	4	2	0	0.0	13:48
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	1	1	+1	1	0	2	2	0.0	19:19
Conor Timmins #21	D	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	18:42
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	1	1	+1	1	0	3	0	0.0	19:48
Jiri Kulich #20	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	2	0	47.8	19:56
Noah Ostlund #86	C	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	50.0	12:16
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	41.7	12:47
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	0	0	0	6	0	2	0	0.0	19:26
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	33.3	16:20
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	19:13
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	16:03
Michael Kesselring #8	D	0	0	0	+1	3	1	0	0	0.0	17:58
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	-2	2	0	2	0	0.0	21:07
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	0	0	0	6	1	2	0	0.0	23:01

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Alex Lyon #34	O	39	35	4	.897	35/38	0/1	62:53

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.