Game

Sabres at Blues

Sabres 4, Blues 2 · first star Zach Benson (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 4 at St. Louis Blues 2

Sabres BUF

4 FINAL 2

Blues STL

Monday, December 29, 2025 · 8:00 PM ET · Enterprise Center, St. Louis

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Sabres	1	1	2	4	34
Blues	2	0	0	2	18

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Blues 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; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: BUF 34, STL 18.

BUF in red STL in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 34 shots on goal (4 goals, 18 missed, 18 blocked) attacking left; Blues 18 shots on goal (2 goals, 9 missed, 12 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	STL SOG	STL G	STL ATT
1st	8	1	19	9	2	13
2nd	14	1	24	7	0	16
3rd	12	2	27	2	0	10
Total	34	4	70	18	2	39

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	STL SOG	STL G
Even strength	27	4	16	2
Power play	7	0	2	0
Short-handed	0	0	0	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Sabres took 64.2% of the shot attempts, and 63.4% of the 93 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 Blues 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 Blues
Period	STL CF%	STL FF%
1st	40.6	47.8
2nd	40.0	32.1
3rd	27.0	25.0
Game	35.8	34.2

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

Scoring summary

1st period

02:19 Noah Ostlund (7) Josh Norris (7) · wrist 1–0
05:08 Brayden Schenn (8) Otto Stenberg (4), Jordan Kyrou (9) · wrist 1–1
08:09 Jimmy Snuggerud (6) Robby Fabbri (3), Colton Parayko (11) · wrist 1–2

2nd period

15:17 Alex Tuch (12) Mattias Samuelsson (13) · snap 2–2

3rd period

01:46 Zach Benson (4) Jack Quinn (15), Ryan McLeod (15) · bat 3–2
18:44 Peyton Krebs (3) EN Beck Malenstyn (3) · wrist 4–2

Three stars

Zach Benson BUF · L #6 · 1 G, 0 A
Joel Hofer STL · G #30 · 0 GA, .909 SV%
Alex Tuch BUF · R #89 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	10:31	BUF	Zach Metsa	high sticking	2	Justin Faulk
1st	20:00	STL	Cam Fowler	hooking	2	Josh Dunne
3rd	09:38	STL	Justin Faulk	interference	2	Josh Doan
3rd	15:55	STL	Pavel Buchnevich	high sticking	2	Zach Metsa

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Noah Ostlund #86	C	1	0	1	+1	1	0	0	0	100.0	12:57
Peyton Krebs #19	C	1	0	1	+1	2	0	0	0	100.0	14:12
Zach Benson #6	L	1	0	1	+1	5	0	0	0	0.0	15:39
Alex Tuch #89	R	1	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	0.0	13:54
Josh Norris #9	C	0	1	1	+1	0	0	1	0	53.3	16:26
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	1	1	0	3	1	0	0	66.7	17:09
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	1	1	+1	1	5	2	0	0.0	14:35
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	1	1	+1	4	1	0	0	0.0	14:02
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	1	1	-1	2	0	2	0	0.0	22:14
Josh Dunne #44	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	42.9	13:08
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	56.2	19:12
Jordan Greenway #12	L	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0.0	12:32
Josh Doan #91	R	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	0.0	17:01
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	0	0	+2	0	1	0	0	0.0	22:21
Michael Kesselring #8	D	0	0	0	+1	1	3	0	0	0.0	15:33
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	1	0	0.0	23:42
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	0	0	-1	5	1	0	0	0.0	23:40
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	0	0	+2	0	0	0	2	0.0	10:18

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Alex Lyon #34	W	18	16	2	.889	14/16	2/2	59:25

St. Louis Blues

Blues skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Brayden Schenn #10	C	1	0	1	0	2	3	2	0	46.7	15:51
Jimmy Snuggerud #21	R	1	0	1	0	3	4	1	0	0.0	13:24
Otto Stenberg #28	C	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	14:02
Robby Fabbri #9	C	0	1	1	0	2	4	1	0	0.0	11:52
Jordan Kyrou #25	R	0	1	1	-1	0	0	1	0	100.0	13:12
Colton Parayko #55	D	0	1	1	+1	0	3	2	0	0.0	24:58
Oskar Sundqvist #70	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	40.0	15:41
Robert Thomas #18	C	0	0	0	-2	1	0	0	0	53.3	18:28
Jake Neighbours #63	L	0	0	0	-2	1	6	1	0	0.0	15:33
Pavel Buchnevich #89	L	0	0	0	-2	1	0	0	2	0.0	17:01
Alexey Toropchenko #13	R	0	0	0	0	2	2	4	0	0.0	15:58
Dalibor Dvorsky #54	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	33.3	10:12
Mathieu Joseph #71	R	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0.0	14:39
Cam Fowler #17	D	0	0	0	-4	1	0	0	2	0.0	22:25
Justin Faulk #72	D	0	0	0	0	4	1	1	2	0.0	23:27
Logan Mailloux #23	D	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0.0	08:52
Philip Broberg #6	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	1	0	0.0	25:26
Tyler Tucker #75	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	1	0	0.0	13:30

Blues goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Joel Hofer #30	L	33	30	3	.909	23/26	7/7	59:29

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.