Game

Sabres at Rangers

Sabres 5, Rangers 2 · first star Jason Zucker (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 5 at New York Rangers 2

Sabres BUF

5 FINAL 2

Rangers NYR

Thursday, January 8, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Madison Square Garden, New York

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Sabres	1	2	2	5	21
Rangers	0	1	1	2	32

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Rangers 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; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: BUF 21, NYR 32.

BUF in red NYR in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 21 shots on goal (5 goals, 15 missed, 12 blocked) attacking left; Rangers 32 shots on goal (2 goals, 13 missed, 21 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	NYR SOG	NYR G	NYR ATT
1st	4	1	17	7	0	17
2nd	14	2	21	11	1	16
3rd	3	2	10	14	1	33
Total	21	5	48	32	2	66

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	NYR SOG	NYR G
Even strength	14	3	25	2
Power play	6	1	7	0
Short-handed	1	1	0	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Rangers took 57.9% of the shot attempts, and 60.0% of the 90 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 Rangers 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 Rangers
Period	NYR CF%	NYR FF%
1st	50.0	50.0
2nd	43.2	40.6
3rd	76.7	75.9
Game	57.9	55.6

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

Scoring summary

1st period

04:07 Josh Doan (14) Mattias Samuelsson (15), Jason Zucker (10) · wrist 1–0

2nd period

06:58 Alex Tuch (14) Bowen Byram (14), Josh Norris (10) · snap 2–0
09:34 Mika Zibanejad (16) Artemi Panarin (31) · slap 2–1
12:34 Jason Zucker (10) PP Rasmus Dahlin (25), Tage Thompson (18) · deflected 3–1

3rd period

00:51 Vincent Trocheck (11) J.T. Miller (13), Artemi Panarin (32) · wrist 3–2
14:38 Mattias Samuelsson (7) SH Ryan McLeod (16) · snap 4–2
18:30 Ryan McLeod (9) EN Unassisted · wrist 5–2

Three stars

Jason Zucker BUF · L #17 · 1 G, 1 A
Mattias Samuelsson BUF · D #23 · 1 G, 1 A
Colten Ellis BUF · G #92 · 0 GA, .938 SV%

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
2nd	06:58	NYR	Vincent Trocheck	abuse of officials	2	—
2nd	11:53	NYR	Matthew Robertson	holding	2	Zach Benson
2nd	18:28	BUF	Noah Ostlund	tripping	2	Artemi Panarin
3rd	14:24	BUF	Peyton Krebs	high sticking double minor	4	Vincent Trocheck

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Ryan McLeod #71	C	1	1	2	+2	2	0	0	0	52.6	17:30
Jason Zucker #17	L	1	1	2	+2	3	1	0	0	0.0	15:00
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	1	1	2	+1	1	2	4	0	0.0	23:56
Alex Tuch #89	R	1	0	1	+2	1	0	0	0	0.0	17:30
Josh Doan #91	R	1	0	1	0	2	3	0	0	0.0	16:09
Josh Norris #9	C	0	1	1	+2	1	1	1	0	57.1	13:27
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	1	1	-1	2	1	1	0	28.6	16:39
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	1	1	+3	0	0	2	0	0.0	23:45
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	1	1	-2	3	1	3	0	0.0	23:41
Noah Ostlund #86	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0.0	12:59
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	0	0	-1	1	4	1	4	25.0	11:29
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	-1	0	1	2	0	0.0	12:01
Jordan Greenway #12	L	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0.0	13:49
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	100.0	16:04
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	14:12
Jacob Bryson #78	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	10:55
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	1	0	0.0	22:15
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0.0	12:39

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Colten Ellis #92	W	32	30	2	.938	23/25	7/7	60:00

New York Rangers

Rangers skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Artemi Panarin #10	L	0	2	2	-3	4	0	0	0	0.0	20:53
Mika Zibanejad #93	C	1	0	1	-2	3	2	1	0	58.3	19:33
Vincent Trocheck #16	C	1	0	1	0	3	4	1	2	71.4	19:47
J.T. Miller #8	C	0	1	1	-1	3	2	0	0	66.7	20:24
Jonny Brodzinski #22	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	37.5	14:12
Matt Rempe #73	C	0	0	0	0	1	6	0	0	0.0	09:43
Sam Carrick #39	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	71.4	10:08
Alexis Lafrenière #13	L	0	0	0	-2	1	0	0	0	0.0	14:38
Anton Blidh #25	L	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0.0	07:35
Will Cuylle #50	L	0	0	0	-1	3	3	1	0	0.0	16:34
Gabe Perreault #94	R	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	100.0	15:11
Taylor Raddysh #14	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	16:30
Braden Schneider #4	D	0	0	0	0	2	4	2	0	0.0	21:19
Carson Soucy #24	D	0	0	0	+1	0	2	3	0	0.0	14:30
Matthew Robertson #29	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	0.0	18:21
Scott Morrow #60	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	16:51
Vladislav Gavrikov #44	D	0	0	0	-3	4	2	1	0	0.0	24:37
Will Borgen #17	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	3	0	0.0	18:08

Rangers goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jonathan Quick #32	L	20	16	4	.800	11/13	5/6	58:25

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.