Game

Sabres at Oilers

Sabres 4, Oilers 3 in overtime · first star Josh Doan (2 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 4 at Edmonton Oilers 3

Sabres BUF

4 FINAL/OT 3

Oilers EDM

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 · 9:00 PM ET · Rogers Place, Edmonton

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	OT	T	SOG
Sabres	1	2	0	1	4	28
Oilers	0	0	3	0	3	30

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Oilers attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 2 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: BUF 28, EDM 30.

BUF in red EDM in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 28 shots on goal (4 goals, 8 missed, 17 blocked) attacking left; Oilers 30 shots on goal (3 goals, 14 missed, 14 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	EDM SOG	EDM G	EDM ATT
1st	7	1	12	8	0	16
2nd	14	2	24	10	0	17
3rd	6	0	15	12	3	25
OT	1	1	2	0	0	0
Total	28	4	53	30	3	58

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	EDM SOG	EDM G
Even strength	17	2	23	3
Power play	11	2	6	0
Short-handed	0	0	1	0

Attempt share by period

Oilers took 52.3% of the shot attempts, and 52.0% of the 73 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 Oilers 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 Oilers
Period	EDM CF%	EDM FF%
1st	57.1	55.0
2nd	41.5	41.9
3rd	62.5	71.4
OT	0.0	0.0
Game	52.3	55.0

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

Scoring summary

1st period

19:01 Josh Doan (9) PP Rasmus Dahlin (19), Tage Thompson (11) · tip-in 1–0

2nd period

11:03 Tage Thompson (14) Unassisted · snap 2–0
11:59 Josh Doan (10) PP Tage Thompson (12), Rasmus Dahlin (20) · between-legs 3–0

3rd period

00:10 Connor McDavid (15) Mattias Ekholm (13) · wrist 3–1
01:56 Vasily Podkolzin (6) Leon Draisaitl (21), Ty Emberson (6) · wrist 3–2
19:58 Connor McDavid (16) Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (16), Evan Bouchard (23) · snap 3–3

Overtime

00:33 Alex Tuch (11) Ryan McLeod (10), Rasmus Dahlin (21) · wrist 4–3

Three stars

Josh Doan BUF · R #91 · 2 G, 0 A
Connor McDavid EDM · C #97 · 2 G, 0 A
Alex Tuch BUF · R #89 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	12:51	EDM	Darnell Nurse	boarding	2	Peyton Krebs
1st	18:28	EDM	David Tomasek	interference goalkeeper	2	Colten Ellis
2nd	05:27	BUF	Jack Quinn	hooking	2	Evan Bouchard
2nd	11:19	EDM	Zach Hyman	interference	2	Josh Doan
2nd	15:31	BUF	Beck Malenstyn	delaying game puck over glass	2	—
3rd	07:51	BUF	Rasmus Dahlin	tripping	2	Leon Draisaitl
3rd	12:51	EDM	Zach Hyman	hooking	2	Conor Timmins
3rd	13:59	EDM	Adam Henrique	tripping	2	Tage Thompson
3rd	15:11	BUF	Alex Tuch	hooking	2	Zach Hyman
3rd	17:17	EDM	Ryan Nugent-Hopkins	hooking	2	Beck Malenstyn

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Tage Thompson #72	C	1	2	3	+1	4	0	0	0	55.6	19:11
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	3	3	0	4	0	0	2	0.0	22:58
Josh Doan #91	R	2	0	2	-2	5	1	0	0	0.0	15:07
Alex Tuch #89	R	1	0	1	+2	2	0	1	2	0.0	22:37
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	1	1	-1	2	0	1	0	31.2	22:37
Josh Dunne #44	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	40.0	07:45
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	0	0	+1	1	2	0	0	37.5	16:10
Tyson Kozak #48	C	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	0	50.0	11:35
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	-1	0	4	0	2	0.0	11:23
Jordan Greenway #12	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	09:40
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	-1	2	0	2	0	0.0	16:50
Isak Rosen #63	R	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	09:05
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	2	0.0	15:07
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	3	0	0.0	21:14
Conor Timmins #21	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	22:09
Jacob Bryson #78	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	0	0.0	06:08
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0.0	26:09
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	17:54

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Colten Ellis #92	—	6	6	0	1.000	6/6	0/0	19:01
Alex Lyon #34	W	24	21	3	.875	14/17	6/6	41:32

Edmonton Oilers

Oilers skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Connor McDavid #97	C	2	0	2	+1	6	0	1	0	27.3	25:51
Vasily Podkolzin #92	R	1	0	1	+2	3	3	0	0	0.0	15:08
Leon Draisaitl #29	C	0	1	1	+1	7	0	0	0	68.2	24:19
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins #93	C	0	1	1	+2	2	0	1	2	40.0	21:29
Evan Bouchard #2	D	0	1	1	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	28:34
Mattias Ekholm #14	D	0	1	1	0	3	2	1	0	0.0	22:40
Ty Emberson #49	D	0	1	1	+1	0	1	3	0	0.0	13:22
Adam Henrique #19	C	0	0	0	-1	1	2	1	2	100.0	12:32
Curtis Lazar #20	C	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	87.5	08:17
Matt Savoie #22	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	100.0	17:27
Mattias Janmark #13	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	10:07
Trent Frederic #10	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	50.0	06:57
Andrew Mangiapane #88	L	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	0	0.0	09:00
Zach Hyman #18	L	0	0	0	+2	2	0	0	4	0.0	23:24
David Tomasek #86	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0.0	05:41
Alec Regula #75	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0.0	14:46
Brett Kulak #27	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0.0	14:35
Darnell Nurse #25	D	0	0	0	+1	3	0	0	2	0.0	19:28

Oilers goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Stuart Skinner #74	O	28	24	4	.857	15/17	9/11	59:22

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.