Game

Sabres at Wild

Sabres 3, Wild 2 in a shootout · first star Rasmus Dahlin (0 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 3 at Minnesota Wild 2

Sabres BUF

3 FINAL/SO 2

Wild MIN

Saturday, November 29, 2025 · 8:00 PM ET · Grand Casino Arena, St. Paul

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	1OT	SO	T	SOG
Sabres	1	0	1	0	1	3	33
Wild	2	0	0	0	0	2	24

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Wild 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 33, MIN 24.

BUF in red MIN in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 33 shots on goal (2 goals, 12 missed, 14 blocked) attacking left; Wild 24 shots on goal (2 goals, 12 missed, 10 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	MIN SOG	MIN G	MIN ATT
1st	11	1	16	11	2	20
2nd	12	0	21	8	0	13
3rd	8	1	19	3	0	9
OT	2	0	3	2	0	4
Total	33	2	59	24	2	46

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	MIN SOG	MIN G
Even strength	31	2	19	2
Power play	2	0	4	0
Short-handed	0	0	1	0

Attempt share by period

Sabres took 56.2% of the shot attempts, and 58.5% of the 82 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 Wild 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 Wild
Period	MIN CF%	MIN FF%
1st	55.6	58.1
2nd	38.2	40.7
3rd	32.1	27.8
OT	57.1	40.0
Game	43.8	44.4

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

Scoring summary

1st period

09:37 Kirill Kaprizov (17) Mats Zuccarello (9), Danila Yurov (4) · snap 0–1
12:42 Beck Malenstyn (3) Peyton Krebs (7), Josh Dunne (2) · deflected 1–1
14:05 Matt Boldy (15) Unassisted · wrist 1–2

3rd period

06:01 Josh Doan (8) Alex Tuch (14), Noah Ostlund (3) · wrist 2–2

Shootout

00:00 Noah Ostlund Unassisted · wrist 3–2

Three stars

Rasmus Dahlin BUF · D #26 · 0 G, 0 A
Noah Ostlund BUF · C #86 · 0 G, 1 A
Kirill Kaprizov MIN · L #97 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	03:35	MIN	Jared Spurgeon	tripping	2	Zach Benson
2nd	02:14	BUF	Alex Tuch	tripping	2	Kirill Kaprizov
2nd	10:32	MIN	Zeev Buium	tripping	2	Beck Malenstyn
2nd	13:16	BUF	Mattias Samuelsson	holding	2	Danila Yurov
2nd	13:47	MIN	Matt Boldy	delaying game puck over glass	2	—
3rd	10:00	BUF	Rasmus Dahlin	tripping	2	Matt Boldy

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	1	0	1	+1	3	3	0	0	0.0	12:31
Josh Doan #91	R	1	0	1	0	5	1	0	0	0.0	12:33
Josh Dunne #44	C	0	1	1	+1	0	4	0	0	0.0	10:20
Noah Ostlund #86	C	0	1	1	-1	0	0	0	0	11.1	12:20
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	1	1	+2	4	2	1	0	44.4	12:22
Alex Tuch #89	R	0	1	1	0	4	1	0	2	33.3	16:32
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	63.2	21:43
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	0	0	-1	4	0	1	0	57.1	18:14
Tyson Kozak #48	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	50.0	12:28
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	17:34
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	17:32
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	19:29
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	23:54
Conor Timmins #21	D	0	0	0	+1	1	2	1	0	0.0	21:18
Jacob Bryson #78	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	08:26
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	2	0.0	23:34
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	19:44
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	0	0	-2	4	2	3	2	0.0	28:26

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Colten Ellis #92	W	24	22	2	.917	17/19	4/4	65:00

Minnesota Wild

Wild skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Kirill Kaprizov #97	L	1	0	1	-1	6	1	1	0	0.0	25:01
Matt Boldy #12	L	1	0	1	+1	4	1	1	2	50.0	21:52
Danila Yurov #22	R	0	1	1	-1	1	1	2	0	25.0	14:25
Mats Zuccarello #36	R	0	1	1	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	18:49
Joel Eriksson Ek #14	C	0	0	0	+1	2	2	0	0	75.0	22:20
Nico Sturm #78	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	75.0	08:39
Tyler Pitlick #19	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	04:53
Yakov Trenin #13	C	0	0	0	0	1	7	0	0	100.0	13:43
Liam Ohgren #28	L	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	09:34
Marcus Johansson #90	L	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	17:28
Ryan Hartman #38	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	26.7	17:39
Vladimir Tarasenko #91	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	12:40
Brock Faber #7	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	25:07
Jake Middleton #5	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0.0	19:54
Jared Spurgeon #46	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	2	0.0	21:24
Jonas Brodin #25	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0.0	23:52
Zach Bogosian #24	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	13:47
Zeev Buium #8	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0.0	18:02

Wild goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Filip Gustavsson #32	O	33	31	2	.939	29/31	2/2	64:51

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.