Game

Sabres at Flyers

Flyers 5, Sabres 2 · first star Noah Cates (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 2 at Philadelphia Flyers 5

Sabres BUF

2 FINAL 5

Flyers PHI

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 · 7:30 PM ET · Xfinity Mobile Arena, Philadelphia · TV TNT · HBO MAX

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Sabres	1	1	0	2	29
Flyers	3	2	0	5	35

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Flyers 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 29, PHI 35.

BUF in red PHI in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 29 shots on goal (2 goals, 20 missed, 16 blocked) attacking left; Flyers 35 shots on goal (5 goals, 12 missed, 21 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	PHI SOG	PHI G	PHI ATT
1st	4	1	11	11	3	29
2nd	14	1	28	12	2	18
3rd	11	0	26	12	0	21
Total	29	2	65	35	5	68

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	PHI SOG	PHI G
Even strength	22	1	23	3
Power play	6	1	11	2
Short-handed	1	0	1	0

Attempt share by period

Flyers took 51.1% of the shot attempts, and 48.4% of the 91 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 Flyers 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 Flyers
Period	PHI CF%	PHI FF%
1st	72.5	73.1
2nd	39.1	36.1
3rd	44.7	44.1
Game	51.1	49.0

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

Scoring summary

1st period

04:08 Jason Zucker (8) PP Josh Doan (11), Josh Norris (2) · snap 1–0
08:26 Travis Konecny (6) PP Matvei Michkov (7), Travis Sanheim (8) · snap 1–1
09:04 Trevor Zegras (10) PP Travis Sanheim (9), Travis Konecny (16) · snap 1–2
09:25 Bobby Brink (7) Noah Cates (9), Nikita Grebenkin (3) · wrist 1–3

2nd period

01:45 Noah Cates (6) Bobby Brink (5), Jamie Drysdale (9) · snap 1–4
11:48 Bowen Byram (6) Alex Tuch (15), Jack Quinn (9) · wrist 2–4
12:43 Owen Tippett (9) Matvei Michkov (8), Sean Couturier (12) · bat 2–5

Three stars

Noah Cates PHI · L #27 · 1 G, 1 A
Trevor Zegras PHI · C #46 · 1 G, 0 A
Sean Couturier PHI · C #14 · 0 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	03:20	PHI	Cam York	delaying game puck over glass	2	—
1st	04:38	PHI	Matvei Michkov	interference	2	Zach Benson
1st	05:30	BUF	Tage Thompson	hooking	2	Rodrigo Abols
1st	06:46	BUF	Conor Timmins	cross checking	2	Sean Couturier
1st	08:26	BUF	Bench	delaying game unsuccessful challenge	2	—
1st	17:19	PHI	Rodrigo Abols	tripping	2	Bowen Byram
1st	19:40	BUF	Peyton Krebs	high sticking	2	Sean Couturier
2nd	09:24	PHI	Nicolas Deslauriers	roughing	2	Josh Dunne
2nd	09:24	PHI	Garnet Hathaway	roughing	2	Josh Dunne
2nd	09:24	BUF	Josh Dunne	roughing	2	Garnet Hathaway
2nd	16:50	BUF	Rasmus Dahlin	boarding (major)	5	Trevor Zegras
2nd	16:50	BUF	Rasmus Dahlin	game misconduct	10	—
3rd	02:46	PHI	Travis Sanheim	holding	2	Jason Zucker
3rd	06:21	PHI	Matvei Michkov	tripping	2	Jason Zucker

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Jason Zucker #17	L	1	0	1	-1	3	2	0	0	0.0	18:12
Bowen Byram #4	D	1	0	1	0	2	0	3	0	0.0	23:49
Josh Norris #9	C	0	1	1	-2	2	2	0	0	69.2	17:35
Alex Tuch #89	R	0	1	1	+1	2	0	4	0	0.0	19:31
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	1	1	0	1	2	0	0	0.0	15:26
Josh Doan #91	R	0	1	1	0	6	0	0	0	0.0	16:32
Josh Dunne #44	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0.0	07:32
Noah Ostlund #86	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	40.0	10:34
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	0	0	-1	1	4	1	2	77.8	09:31
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	36.4	20:13
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	0	0	-1	2	1	0	2	33.3	17:34
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	-1	0	2	3	0	0.0	11:09
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	13:57
Conor Timmins #21	D	0	0	0	-2	0	0	5	2	0.0	16:56
Jacob Bryson #78	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	11:06
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	0	0	-2	3	1	2	0	0.0	20:57
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	+1	3	1	0	0	0.0	21:34
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	15	0.0	16:34

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Colten Ellis #92	L	35	30	5	.857	20/23	9/11	60:00

Philadelphia Flyers

Flyers skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Noah Cates #27	L	1	1	2	+2	5	0	4	0	25.0	17:43
Bobby Brink #10	R	1	1	2	+2	3	0	0	0	0.0	13:52
Travis Konecny #11	R	1	1	2	0	2	2	0	0	0.0	16:35
Matvei Michkov #39	R	0	2	2	+1	2	0	0	4	0.0	15:37
Travis Sanheim #6	D	0	2	2	-1	2	0	2	2	0.0	23:42
Trevor Zegras #46	C	1	0	1	-1	4	0	0	0	71.4	14:06
Owen Tippett #74	R	1	0	1	0	5	2	1	0	0.0	16:34
Sean Couturier #14	C	0	1	1	+2	1	1	1	0	65.2	20:27
Nikita Grebenkin #29	R	0	1	1	+1	0	5	1	0	0.0	12:02
Jamie Drysdale #9	D	0	1	1	+3	0	0	0	0	0.0	23:05
Christian Dvorak #22	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	1	0	50.0	13:16
Rodrigo Abols #18	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	50.0	12:28
Nicolas Deslauriers #44	L	0	0	0	0	2	5	0	2	0.0	09:32
Garnet Hathaway #19	R	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	0.0	12:17
Cam York #8	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	2	0.0	10:37
Egor Zamula #5	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	17:32
Emil Andrae #36	D	0	0	0	+3	3	1	0	0	0.0	18:47
Nick Seeler #24	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	21:03

Flyers goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Samuel Ersson #33	W	29	27	2	.931	21/22	5/6	59:57

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.