Game

Sabres at Penguins

Penguins 4, Sabres 2 · first star Kevin Hayes (1 G, 0 A).

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

Buffalo Sabres 2 at Pittsburgh Penguins 4

Sabres BUF

2 FINAL 4

Penguins PIT

Wednesday, November 26, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Sabres	0	0	2	2	31
Penguins	1	0	3	4	19

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Penguins 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; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: BUF 31, PIT 19.

BUF in red PIT in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 31 shots on goal (2 goals, 18 missed, 11 blocked) attacking left; Penguins 19 shots on goal (4 goals, 11 missed, 16 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	PIT SOG	PIT G	PIT ATT
1st	4	0	8	3	1	13
2nd	8	0	17	8	0	18
3rd	19	2	35	8	3	15
Total	31	2	60	19	4	46

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	PIT SOG	PIT G
Even strength	30	2	18	4
Power play	0	0	1	0
Short-handed	1	0	0	0
Into an empty net	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Sabres took 56.6% of the shot attempts, and 56.8% of the 95 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 Penguins 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 Penguins
Period	PIT CF%	PIT FF%
1st	61.9	53.3
2nd	51.4	45.8
3rd	30.0	27.5
Game	43.4	38.0

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

Scoring summary

1st period

17:09 Mathew Dumba (1) Unassisted · wrist 0–1

3rd period

07:20 Jason Zucker (6) Jack Quinn (7), Ryan McLeod (9) · tip-in 1–1
07:51 Bryan Rust (6) Ryan Shea (7) · wrist 1–2
12:34 Kevin Hayes (1) Erik Karlsson (13), Parker Wotherspoon (6) · tip-in 1–3
15:42 Jack Quinn (6) Jason Zucker (7), Mattias Samuelsson (7) · wrist 2–3
19:02 Connor Dewar (5) EN Danton Heinen (1), Ryan Shea (8) · wrist 2–4

Three stars

Kevin Hayes PIT · R #13 · 1 G, 0 A
Jack Quinn BUF · R #22 · 1 G, 1 A
Tristan Jarry PIT · G #35 · 0 GA, .935 SV%

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	08:57	BUF	Conor Timmins	tripping	2	Sidney Crosby

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Jason Zucker #17	L	1	1	2	+1	4	0	0	0	0.0	18:28
Jack Quinn #22	R	1	1	2	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	18:39
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	1	1	+1	1	1	0	0	44.4	18:01
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	1	1	+1	5	1	4	0	0.0	27:47
Josh Dunne #44	C	0	0	0	-1	2	1	0	0	0.0	08:11
Noah Ostlund #86	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	25.0	13:27
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	28.6	09:10
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	0	0	-3	2	1	0	0	37.5	18:33
Tyson Kozak #48	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	4	0	57.1	15:22
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	-1	1	4	1	0	0.0	09:44
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	16:09
Alex Tuch #89	R	0	0	0	-2	2	4	1	0	100.0	17:40
Josh Doan #91	R	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	0.0	16:02
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	20:13
Conor Timmins #21	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	2	2	0.0	14:06
Jacob Bryson #78	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	12:34
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	-1	1	2	0	0	0.0	19:25
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	0	0	0	5	1	1	0	0.0	25:06

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen #1	L	18	15	3	.833	14/17	1/1	59:23

Pittsburgh Penguins

Penguins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	FO%	TOI
Ryan Shea #5	D	0	2	2	+2	0	1	2	0.0	19:10
Connor Dewar #19	C	1	0	1	+1	1	3	0	0.0	17:13
Bryan Rust #17	R	1	0	1	+1	1	0	2	0.0	16:26
Kevin Hayes #13	R	1	0	1	+2	3	1	0	100.0	15:23
Mathew Dumba #24	D	1	0	1	0	1	2	0	0.0	16:16
Danton Heinen #43	L	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0.0	14:59
Erik Karlsson #65	D	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0.0	23:48
Parker Wotherspoon #28	D	0	1	1	0	0	2	2	0.0	22:37
Blake Lizotte #46	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	66.7	12:46
Evgeni Malkin #71	C	0	0	0	+2	1	1	0	50.0	18:46
Sidney Crosby #87	C	0	0	0	+1	4	0	0	58.3	18:46
Tommy Novak #18	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	13:53
Tristan Broz #26	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	50.0	11:30
Joona Koppanen #15	L	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	0.0	13:02
Anthony Mantha #39	R	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	0.0	17:37
Ville Koivunen #41	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	11:33
Kris Letang #58	D	0	0	0	+2	2	1	0	0.0	20:50
Ryan Graves #27	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0.0	15:25

Penguins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Tristan Jarry #35	W	31	29	2	.935	28/30	0/0	60:00

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.