Game

Blues at Sabres

Blues 3, Sabres 0 · first star Joel Hofer (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.

St. Louis Blues 3 at Buffalo Sabres 0

Blues STL

3 FINAL 0

Sabres BUF

Thursday, November 6, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · KeyBank Center, Buffalo

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Blues	1	1	1	3	17
Sabres	0	0	0	0	28

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Blues attack left, Sabres attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 4 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: STL 17, BUF 28.

STL in red BUF in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Blues 17 shots on goal (3 goals, 9 missed, 12 blocked) attacking left; Sabres 28 shots on goal (0 goals, 13 missed, 19 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	STL SOG	STL G	STL ATT	BUF SOG	BUF ATT
1st	4	1	13	7	16
2nd	8	1	18	9	16
3rd	5	1	7	12	28
Total	17	3	38	28	60

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	STL SOG	STL G	BUF SOG
Even strength	12	2	23
Power play	3	0	5
Short-handed	2	1	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0

Attempt share by period

Sabres took 61.2% of the shot attempts, and 63.0% of the 81 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 Blues hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Blues at Sabres
Period	BUF CF%	BUF FF%
1st	55.2	61.1
2nd	47.1	45.8
3rd	80.0	76.0
Game	61.2	61.2

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

Scoring summary

1st period

12:38 Mathieu Joseph (2) SH Unassisted · wrist 1–0

2nd period

02:42 Nick Bjugstad (4) Justin Faulk (5), Mathieu Joseph (3) · wrist 2–0

3rd period

18:58 Justin Faulk (3) EN Mathieu Joseph (4) · wrist 3–0

Three stars

Joel Hofer STL · G #30 · 0 GA, .000 SV%
Mathieu Joseph STL · R #71 · 1 G, 2 A
Nick Bjugstad STL · C #77 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	06:32	BUF	Josh Dunne	fighting (major)	5	Tyler Tucker
1st	06:32	STL	Tyler Tucker	fighting (major)	5	Josh Dunne
1st	11:17	STL	Cam Fowler	hooking	2	Josh Doan
2nd	03:38	BUF	Alex Tuch	tripping	2	Philip Broberg
2nd	13:52	STL	Jimmy Snuggerud	holding	2	Conor Timmins
3rd	02:04	STL	Alexandre Texier	holding	2	Bowen Byram
3rd	16:43	BUF	Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen	tripping	2	Dylan Holloway

Boxscore

St. Louis Blues

Blues skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Mathieu Joseph #71	R	1	2	3	+3	1	0	1	0	0.0	12:21
Justin Faulk #72	D	1	1	2	+2	3	1	1	0	0.0	24:16
Nick Bjugstad #77	C	1	0	1	+1	2	0	0	0	33.3	11:27
Brayden Schenn #10	C	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	60.0	16:43
Pius Suter #22	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	36.4	17:08
Robert Thomas #18	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	66.7	15:28
Alexandre Texier #9	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0.0	12:23
Dylan Holloway #81	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	17:18
Nathan Walker #26	L	0	0	0	+3	1	2	2	0	60.0	12:10
Pavel Buchnevich #89	L	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	17:13
Alexey Toropchenko #13	R	0	0	0	+1	1	4	1	0	0.0	13:12
Dalibor Dvorsky #54	R	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	75.0	12:22
Jimmy Snuggerud #21	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	2	0.0	17:00
Cam Fowler #17	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	2	0.0	24:08
Colton Parayko #55	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	3	0	0.0	25:11
Matthew Kessel #51	D	0	0	0	+1	0	1	0	0	0.0	09:05
Philip Broberg #6	D	0	0	0	+1	0	1	4	0	0.0	27:09
Tyler Tucker #75	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	5	0.0	09:26

Blues goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Joel Hofer #30	W	28	28	0	1.000	23/23	5/5	60:00

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Josh Dunne #44	C	0	1	0	0	5	0.0	08:39
Noah Ostlund #86	C	0	0	0	2	0	27.3	13:46
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	1	2	1	0	40.0	14:41
Ryan McLeod #71	C	-1	1	0	0	0	59.1	19:04
Tage Thompson #72	C	-2	2	2	0	0	33.3	20:00
Tyson Kozak #48	C	-1	1	4	0	0	50.0	10:10
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	-1	2	4	1	0	0.0	10:17
Jordan Greenway #12	L	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	11:25
Alex Tuch #89	R	-1	2	0	0	2	100.0	16:07
Isak Rosen #63	R	-1	3	0	1	0	0.0	17:10
Jack Quinn #22	R	-1	3	0	1	0	0.0	20:16
Josh Doan #91	R	-2	4	0	0	0	0.0	18:24
Bowen Byram #4	D	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	21:03
Conor Timmins #21	D	0	2	0	2	0	0.0	17:19
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	-1	0	0	2	0	0.0	16:09
Michael Kesselring #8	D	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	15:59
Owen Power #25	D	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	22:58
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	-3	3	1	1	0	0.0	22:43

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen #1	L	16	14	2	.875	10/11	3/3	59:50

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.