Game

Sabres at Red Wings

Sabres 5, Red Wings 4 in overtime · first star Tage Thompson (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 5 at Detroit Red Wings 4

Sabres BUF

5 FINAL/OT 4

Red Wings DET

Saturday, November 15, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · Little Caesars Arena, Detroit

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	OT	T	SOG
Sabres	1	1	2	1	5	27
Red Wings	1	3	0	0	4	28

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Red Wings 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. Boxscore shots on goal: BUF 27, DET 28.

BUF in red DET in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 27 shots on goal (5 goals, 10 missed, 17 blocked) attacking left; Red Wings 28 shots on goal (4 goals, 14 missed, 16 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	DET SOG	DET G	DET ATT
1st	5	1	15	5	1	17
2nd	8	1	18	15	3	23
3rd	13	2	19	8	0	18
OT	1	1	2	0	0	0
Total	27	5	54	28	4	58

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	DET SOG	DET G
Even strength	20	4	20	3
Power play	6	0	8	1
Short-handed	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Red Wings took 51.8% of the shot attempts, and 49.4% 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 Red Wings 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 Red Wings
Period	DET CF%	DET FF%
1st	53.1	52.4
2nd	56.1	65.5
3rd	48.6	42.9
OT	0.0	0.0
Game	51.8	53.2

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

Scoring summary

1st period

10:23 Patrick Kane (3) Ben Chiarot (3) · snap 0–1
10:52 Alex Tuch (7) Unassisted · backhand 1–1

2nd period

03:52 Alex DeBrincat (7) Lucas Raymond (12) · wrist 1–2
05:56 Dylan Larkin (11) Lucas Raymond (13), Moritz Seider (7) · wrist 1–3
08:50 Alex DeBrincat (8) PP Lucas Raymond (14), Moritz Seider (8) · snap 1–4
17:58 Josh Doan (5) Rasmus Dahlin (9), Bowen Byram (6) · tip-in 2–4

3rd period

04:25 Tage Thompson (8) Josh Doan (7), Colten Ellis (1) · wrist 3–4
09:28 Ryan McLeod (4) SH Unassisted · wrist 4–4

Overtime

01:05 Mattias Samuelsson (3) Tage Thompson (8), Rasmus Dahlin (10) · snap 5–4

Three stars

Tage Thompson BUF · C #72 · 1 G, 1 A
Lucas Raymond DET · L #23 · 0 G, 3 A
Josh Doan BUF · R #91 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
2nd	05:26	BUF	Noah Ostlund	tripping	2	Nate Danielson
2nd	05:40	DET	Patrick Kane	tripping	2	Ryan McLeod
2nd	08:29	BUF	Josh Dunne	holding	2	Axel Sandin-Pellikka
2nd	15:37	BUF	Jordan Greenway	interference	2	Axel Sandin-Pellikka
2nd	18:23	DET	Simon Edvinsson	hooking	2	Tage Thompson
3rd	05:37	DET	Simon Edvinsson	high sticking	2	Alex Tuch
3rd	08:05	BUF	Peyton Krebs	tripping	2	J.T. Compher
3rd	10:13	DET	Jonatan Berggren	interference	2	Josh Doan
3rd	17:27	BUF	Bench	too many men on the ice	2	—

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Tage Thompson #72	C	1	1	2	+2	6	1	0	0	43.5	18:07
Josh Doan #91	R	1	1	2	+2	4	2	0	0	0.0	16:10
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	2	2	+1	0	1	1	0	0.0	27:05
Ryan McLeod #71	C	1	0	1	+1	2	0	0	0	37.5	19:20
Alex Tuch #89	R	1	0	1	+1	4	1	1	0	0.0	18:20
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	1	0	1	+2	1	1	5	0	0.0	22:31
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	1	1	-1	3	1	0	0	0.0	20:28
Josh Dunne #44	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	2	0.0	08:14
Noah Ostlund #86	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	28.6	15:14
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	2	10.0	13:22
Tyson Kozak #48	C	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	38.5	12:58
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0.0	11:28
Jordan Greenway #12	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	100.0	13:01
Isak Rosen #63	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0.0	14:32
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0.0	16:42
Conor Timmins #21	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0.0	18:51
Michael Kesselring #8	D	0	0	0	+1	0	1	0	0	0.0	10:59
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	1	0	0.0	17:35

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Colten Ellis #92	W	28	24	4	.857	17/20	7/8	61:02

Detroit Red Wings

Red Wings skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Lucas Raymond #23	L	0	3	3	-1	3	0	1	0	0.0	16:47
Alex DeBrincat #93	R	2	0	2	-3	5	2	1	0	0.0	18:04
Moritz Seider #53	D	0	2	2	-1	4	0	2	0	0.0	24:39
Dylan Larkin #71	C	1	0	1	-1	3	0	1	0	66.7	21:53
Patrick Kane #88	R	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	2	0.0	17:06
Ben Chiarot #8	D	0	1	1	+1	0	4	4	0	0.0	23:59
Andrew Copp #18	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	2	0	69.2	12:20
Emmitt Finnie #58	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	14:26
Marco Kasper #92	C	0	0	0	-1	1	3	0	0	66.7	15:47
Mason Appleton #22	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	15:27
Michael Rasmussen #27	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	100.0	11:25
Nate Danielson #29	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	33.3	12:12
J.T. Compher #37	L	0	0	0	+1	3	2	1	0	60.0	15:44
Jonatan Berggren #48	R	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	0.0	09:25
Albert Johansson #20	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	0	0.0	13:36
Axel Sandin-Pellikka #44	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	22:59
Jacob Bernard-Docker #25	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	13:56
Simon Edvinsson #77	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0	16:05

Red Wings goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
John Gibson #36	O	27	22	5	.815	16/20	6/6	60:30

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.