Game

Sabres at Senators

Sabres 3, Senators 2 in overtime · first star Bowen Byram (2 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 3 at Ottawa Senators 2

Sabres BUF

3 FINAL/OT 2

Senators OTT

Tuesday, December 23, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	OT	T	SOG
Sabres	1	1	0	1	3	25
Senators	1	1	0	0	2	26

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Senators 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 25, OTT 26.

BUF in red OTT in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 25 shots on goal (3 goals, 7 missed, 9 blocked) attacking left; Senators 26 shots on goal (2 goals, 19 missed, 18 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	OTT SOG	OTT G	OTT ATT
1st	12	1	18	11	1	23
2nd	8	1	16	8	1	21
3rd	4	0	6	7	0	19
OT	1	1	1	0	0	0
Total	25	3	41	26	2	63

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	OTT SOG	OTT G
Even strength	23	3	22	1
Power play	2	0	4	1
Short-handed	0	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Senators took 60.6% of the shot attempts, and 62.8% of the 86 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 Senators 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 Senators
Period	OTT CF%	OTT FF%
1st	56.1	51.5
2nd	56.8	56.5
3rd	76.0	75.0
OT	0.0	0.0
Game	60.6	58.4

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

Scoring summary

1st period

15:22 Bowen Byram (7) Jordan Greenway (3), Josh Dunne (3) · tip-in 1–0
17:13 Ridly Greig (3) Claude Giroux (18) · backhand 1–1

2nd period

06:11 Noah Ostlund (6) Bowen Byram (9), Alex Tuch (19) · tip-in 2–1
09:27 Tim Stützle (18) PP Drake Batherson (22), Dylan Cozens (17) · wrist 2–2

Overtime

00:31 Bowen Byram (8) Ryan McLeod (14), Mattias Samuelsson (10) · snap 3–2

Three stars

Bowen Byram BUF · D #4 · 2 G, 1 A
Ridly Greig OTT · C #71 · 1 G, 0 A
Alex Lyon BUF · G #34 · 0 GA, .923 SV%

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	18:12	BUF	Michael Kesselring	high sticking	2	Brady Tkachuk
1st	18:12	OTT	Brady Tkachuk	roughing	2	Michael Kesselring
2nd	02:36	OTT	Nikolas Matinpalo	interference	2	Josh Dunne
2nd	09:13	BUF	Michael Kesselring	tripping	2	Fabian Zetterlund
2nd	13:51	BUF	Zach Benson	high sticking	2	Drake Batherson
3rd	18:09	BUF	Alex Tuch	hooking	2	David Perron

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Bowen Byram #4	D	2	1	3	+3	2	0	1	0	0.0	24:18
Noah Ostlund #86	C	1	0	1	+1	2	0	0	0	33.3	15:01
Josh Dunne #44	C	0	1	1	+1	1	2	0	0	50.0	13:13
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	1	1	+1	1	0	0	0	33.3	16:36
Jordan Greenway #12	L	0	1	1	+1	4	1	0	0	0.0	13:36
Alex Tuch #89	R	0	1	1	+2	3	1	2	2	0.0	18:01
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	1	1	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	26:39
Josh Norris #9	C	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	52.9	14:00
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	0	0	-1	0	3	1	0	50.0	14:00
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	2	0	50.0	16:47
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	+1	0	3	2	0	0.0	16:11
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0.0	12:24
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	12:21
Josh Doan #91	R	0	0	0	-1	1	0	2	0	0.0	13:28
Michael Kesselring #8	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	4	0.0	12:39
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0.0	25:10
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	0.0	22:48
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	0	0	+2	0	1	0	0	0.0	08:38

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Alex Lyon #34	W	26	24	2	.923	21/22	3/4	60:31

Ottawa Senators

Senators skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Ridly Greig #71	C	1	0	1	+1	1	1	1	0	37.5	15:11
Tim Stützle #18	C	1	0	1	-2	3	2	1	0	63.6	21:41
Dylan Cozens #24	C	0	1	1	0	2	1	1	0	59.1	19:32
Claude Giroux #28	R	0	1	1	+1	0	1	0	0	66.7	16:10
Drake Batherson #19	R	0	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	0.0	20:42
Nick Cousins #21	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	100.0	08:27
Stephen Halliday #83	C	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	0	50.0	07:46
Brady Tkachuk #7	L	0	0	0	-2	6	2	0	2	50.0	18:42
David Perron #57	L	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	15:21
Fabian Zetterlund #20	L	0	0	0	-1	2	2	1	0	0.0	18:03
Kurtis MacDermid #23	L	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	02:40
Michael Amadio #22	R	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	16:20
Artem Zub #2	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0.0	19:04
Jake Sanderson #85	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	22:25
Jordan Spence #10	D	0	0	0	-2	0	1	0	0	0.0	19:33
Nick Jensen #3	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	17:47
Nikolas Matinpalo #33	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0.0	15:17
Thomas Chabot #72	D	0	0	0	-2	1	1	3	0	0.0	23:23

Senators goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Linus Ullmark #35	O	25	22	3	.880	20/23	2/2	60:31

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.