Game

Sabres at Hurricanes

Hurricanes 2, Sabres 1 · first star Brandon Bussi (0 GA, .944 SV%).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Buffalo Sabres 1 at Carolina Hurricanes 2

Sabres BUF

1 FINAL 2

Hurricanes CAR

Monday, January 19, 2026 · 1:30 PM ET · Lenovo Center, Raleigh · TV TNT · truTV · HBO MAX

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Sabres	1	0	0	1	18
Hurricanes	1	0	1	2	29

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Hurricanes attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 4 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 18, CAR 29.

BUF in red CAR in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 18 shots on goal (1 goal, 12 missed, 6 blocked) attacking left; Hurricanes 29 shots on goal (2 goals, 11 missed, 12 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	CAR SOG	CAR G	CAR ATT
1st	3	1	9	12	1	22
2nd	8	0	13	8	0	13
3rd	7	0	14	9	1	17
Total	18	1	36	29	2	52

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	CAR SOG	CAR G
Even strength	17	1	25	1
Power play	1	0	4	1
Short-handed	0	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Hurricanes took 59.1% of the shot attempts, and 60.3% 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 Hurricanes 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 Hurricanes
Period	CAR CF%	CAR FF%
1st	71.0	68.0
2nd	50.0	50.0
3rd	54.8	52.2
Game	59.1	57.1

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

Scoring summary

1st period

01:33 Rasmus Dahlin (7) Jack Quinn (17), Jason Zucker (14) · snap 1–0
07:04 Andrei Svechnikov (17) Sebastian Aho (34), Sean Walker (10) · tip-in 1–1

3rd period

02:10 Seth Jarvis (22) PP Andrei Svechnikov (25), Sebastian Aho (35) · wrist 1–2

Three stars

Brandon Bussi CAR · G #32 · 0 GA, .944 SV%
Seth Jarvis CAR · C #24 · 1 G, 0 A
Andrei Svechnikov CAR · R #37 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
2nd	07:15	CAR	Andrei Svechnikov	roughing	2	Rasmus Dahlin
2nd	11:35	CAR	Andrei Svechnikov	roughing	2	Rasmus Dahlin
2nd	11:35	BUF	Rasmus Dahlin	roughing	2	Andrei Svechnikov
2nd	16:10	BUF	Rasmus Dahlin	hooking	2	Nikolaj Ehlers
3rd	02:03	BUF	Owen Power	tripping	2	Logan Stankoven
3rd	17:31	CAR	Andrei Svechnikov	roughing	2	Rasmus Dahlin
3rd	17:31	BUF	Ryan McLeod	tripping	2	Sebastian Aho

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	1	0	1	3	3	1	4	0.0	25:03
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	50.0	14:59
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0.0	14:31
Konsta Helenius #94	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	10:47
Noah Ostlund #86	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	15:23
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	33.3	11:04
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	58.3	14:44
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	0	0	6	1	2	0	41.7	22:47
Tyson Kozak #48	C	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	54.5	10:28
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0.0	10:23
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	17:07
Alex Tuch #89	R	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	50.0	19:55
Josh Doan #91	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	17:30
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	25:01
Jacob Bryson #78	D	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	08:00
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	27:33
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	2	1	1	2	0.0	22:07
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	08:41

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen #1	L	29	27	2	.931	24/25	3/4	57:50

Carolina Hurricanes

Hurricanes skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Andrei Svechnikov #37	R	1	1	2	1	4	0	6	0.0	17:17
Sebastian Aho #20	C	0	2	2	0	1	0	0	30.0	19:38
Seth Jarvis #24	R	1	0	1	6	5	0	0	100.0	21:43
Sean Walker #26	D	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	0.0	19:16
Jordan Staal #11	C	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	61.9	19:44
Logan Stankoven #22	C	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	80.0	12:37
Eric Robinson #50	L	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	02:02
Jordan Martinook #48	L	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	16:49
Mark Jankowski #77	L	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	45.5	09:45
Nikolaj Ehlers #27	L	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	18:35
Taylor Hall #71	L	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	0.0	12:53
William Carrier #28	L	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0.0	09:36
Jackson Blake #53	R	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	16:05
Alexander Nikishin #21	D	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	0.0	17:48
Jaccob Slavin #74	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	22:53
Jalen Chatfield #5	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	22:50
Joel Nystrom #64	D	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	13:08
K'Andre Miller #19	D	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	21:57

Hurricanes goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Brandon Bussi #32	W	18	17	1	.944	16/17	1/1	59:24

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.