Game

Wild at Sabres

Wild 5, Sabres 4 in overtime · first star Quinn Hughes (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.

Minnesota Wild 5 at Buffalo Sabres 4

Wild MIN

5 FINAL/OT 4

Sabres BUF

Saturday, January 17, 2026 · 12:30 PM ET · KeyBank Center, Buffalo · TV NHLN

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	OT	T	SOG
Wild	2	2	0	1	5	36
Sabres	1	3	0	0	4	24

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Wild attack left, Sabres 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: MIN 36, BUF 24.

MIN in red BUF in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Wild 36 shots on goal (5 goals, 13 missed, 20 blocked) attacking left; Sabres 24 shots on goal (4 goals, 14 missed, 10 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	MIN SOG	MIN G	MIN ATT	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT
1st	7	2	15	6	1	17
2nd	18	2	27	9	3	14
3rd	10	0	23	9	0	17
OT	1	1	4	0	0	0
Total	36	5	69	24	4	48

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	MIN SOG	MIN G	BUF SOG	BUF G
Even strength	28	4	19	3
Power play	7	1	5	1
Short-handed	1	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Wild took 59.0% of the shot attempts, and 59.3% 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 Sabres and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Wild hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Wild at Sabres
Period	BUF CF%	BUF FF%
1st	53.1	52.2
2nd	34.1	39.4
3rd	42.5	46.4
OT	0.0	0.0
Game	41.0	43.7

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

Scoring summary

1st period

09:19 Marcus Foligno (3) Vladimir Tarasenko (14), Ben Jones (1) · snap 1–0
10:05 Ryan McLeod (11) Jack Quinn (16), Jason Zucker (12) · deflected 1–1
19:52 Ryan Hartman (13) Quinn Hughes (37), Kirill Kaprizov (28) · tip-in 2–1

2nd period

01:08 Vladimir Tarasenko (9) Jared Spurgeon (10), Danila Yurov (11) · wrist 3–1
10:07 Peyton Krebs (4) Mattias Samuelsson (16) · tip-in 3–2
11:34 Jack Quinn (11) Rasmus Dahlin (28), Jason Zucker (13) · wrist 3–3
16:07 Alex Tuch (17) PP Tage Thompson (25), Ryan McLeod (20) · wrist 3–4
17:04 Quinn Hughes (4) Kirill Kaprizov (29), Mats Zuccarello (17) · slap 4–4

Overtime

01:46 Mats Zuccarello (6) PP Kirill Kaprizov (30), Filip Gustavsson (1) · snap 5–4

Three stars

Quinn Hughes MIN · D #43 · 1 G, 1 A
Mats Zuccarello MIN · R #36 · 1 G, 1 A
Jack Quinn BUF · R #22 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	03:10	BUF	Tage Thompson	hooking	2	Quinn Hughes
1st	10:05	BUF	Michael Kesselring	unsportsmanlike conduct	2	Marcus Foligno
1st	10:05	MIN	Marcus Foligno	unsportsmanlike conduct	2	Michael Kesselring
1st	12:11	MIN	Marcus Foligno	fighting (major)	5	Michael Kesselring
1st	12:11	BUF	Michael Kesselring	fighting (major)	5	Marcus Foligno
1st	15:25	MIN	Quinn Hughes	hooking	2	Tage Thompson
1st	16:26	MIN	Danila Yurov	hooking	2	Rasmus Dahlin
2nd	01:47	BUF	Bowen Byram	slashing	2	Danila Yurov
2nd	04:08	BUF	Michael Kesselring	hooking	2	Vinnie Hinostroza
2nd	12:19	MIN	David Jiricek	roughing	2	Michael Kesselring
2nd	15:01	MIN	Danila Yurov	holding	2	Peyton Krebs
3rd	19:46	BUF	Peyton Krebs	hooking	2	Vladimir Tarasenko

Boxscore

Minnesota Wild

Wild skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Kirill Kaprizov #97	L	0	3	3	+1	3	1	0	0	0.0	24:28
Mats Zuccarello #36	R	1	1	2	+1	4	0	0	0	75.0	25:35
Vladimir Tarasenko #91	R	1	1	2	+2	5	3	0	0	0.0	15:55
Quinn Hughes #43	D	1	1	2	+1	4	0	1	2	0.0	29:52
Marcus Foligno #17	L	1	0	1	0	2	2	0	7	0.0	14:25
Ryan Hartman #38	R	1	0	1	+1	4	1	1	0	46.2	22:10
Ben Jones #39	C	0	1	1	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	08:54
Danila Yurov #22	R	0	1	1	+1	1	2	1	4	38.5	16:27
Jared Spurgeon #46	D	0	1	1	0	2	2	0	0	0.0	16:16
Hunter Haight #37	C	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	100.0	08:06
Nico Sturm #78	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	75.0	10:55
Tyler Pitlick #19	C	0	0	0	-1	2	4	0	0	0.0	06:08
Vinnie Hinostroza #18	C	0	0	0	-1	3	0	0	0	50.0	12:28
Yakov Trenin #13	C	0	0	0	+1	0	9	0	0	0.0	15:33
Brock Faber #7	D	0	0	0	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	28:41
Daemon Hunt #48	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	11:36
David Jiricek #55	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0.0	09:12
Jake Middleton #5	D	0	0	0	0	3	3	4	0	0.0	21:17

Wild goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Filip Gustavsson #32	W	24	20	4	.833	16/19	4/5	61:46

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	1	0	68.8	16:30
Jack Quinn #22	R	1	1	2	0	4	0	0	0	0.0	16:03
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	2	2	+1	3	2	0	0	0.0	17:49
Peyton Krebs #19	C	1	0	1	0	1	1	2	2	25.0	10:31
Alex Tuch #89	R	1	0	1	0	2	1	2	0	100.0	18:40
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	1	1	-1	6	0	0	2	43.5	22:17
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	1	1	-1	0	2	3	0	0.0	26:30
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	1	1	0	2	3	0	0	0.0	27:10
Noah Ostlund #86	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	25.0	16:09
Tyson Kozak #48	C	0	0	0	-1	1	3	0	0	66.7	08:32
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	0	0.0	09:56
Jordan Greenway #12	L	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	0.0	10:43
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	16:31
Josh Doan #91	R	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	0.0	15:14
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	0	0	-2	1	0	3	2	0.0	25:36
Michael Kesselring #8	D	0	0	0	+1	0	2	1	9	0.0	10:16
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	-1	0	2	2	0	0.0	21:33
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	07:04

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen #1	O	36	31	5	.861	24/28	6/7	61:46

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.