Game

Sabres at Predators

Sabres 5, Predators 3 · first star Konsta Helenius (1 G, 2 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 Nashville Predators 3

Sabres BUF

5 FINAL 3

Predators NSH

Tuesday, January 20, 2026 · 8:00 PM ET · Bridgestone Arena, Nashville

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Sabres	3	1	1	5	33
Predators	0	2	1	3	34

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Predators 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 33, NSH 34.

BUF in red NSH in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 33 shots on goal (5 goals, 6 missed, 8 blocked) attacking left; Predators 34 shots on goal (3 goals, 29 missed, 20 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	NSH SOG	NSH G	NSH ATT
1st	14	3	16	8	0	17
2nd	11	1	16	12	2	32
3rd	8	1	15	14	1	34
Total	33	5	47	34	3	83

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	NSH SOG	NSH G
Even strength	32	5	30	3
Power play	1	0	4	0
Short-handed	0	0	0	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Predators took 63.9% of the shot attempts, and 58.9% of the 107 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 Predators 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 Predators
Period	NSH CF%	NSH FF%
1st	51.5	44.4
2nd	66.7	66.7
3rd	69.4	69.2
Game	63.9	61.8

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

Scoring summary

1st period

08:11 Noah Ostlund (8) Konsta Helenius (1), Rasmus Dahlin (29) · wrist 1–0
11:45 Noah Ostlund (9) Konsta Helenius (2), Owen Power (12) · backhand 2–0
17:24 Konsta Helenius (1) Peyton Krebs (14) · wrist 3–0

2nd period

04:20 Tage Thompson (26) Alex Tuch (24), Josh Doan (20) · snap 4–0
10:09 Ryan O'Reilly (17) Filip Forsberg (19), Brady Skjei (14) · wrist 4–1
11:54 Filip Forsberg (19) Ryan O'Reilly (29) · wrist 4–2

3rd period

09:30 Ryan O'Reilly (18) Luke Evangelista (28), Filip Forsberg (20) · wrist 4–3
18:14 Peyton Krebs (5) EN Mattias Samuelsson (17) · wrist 5–3

Three stars

Konsta Helenius BUF · C #94 · 1 G, 2 A
Noah Ostlund BUF · C #86 · 2 G, 0 A
Ryan O'Reilly NSH · C #90 · 2 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	13:24	BUF	Jason Zucker	tripping	2	Luke Evangelista
2nd	06:20	NSH	Luke Evangelista	tripping	2	Jordan Greenway
2nd	19:43	BUF	Jordan Greenway	holding	2	Nick Blankenburg
3rd	20:00	BUF	Mattias Samuelsson	roughing	2	Ryan O'Reilly
3rd	20:00	NSH	Ryan O'Reilly	high sticking	2	Mattias Samuelsson

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Konsta Helenius #94	C	1	2	3	+2	4	2	1	0	50.0	14:43
Noah Ostlund #86	C	2	0	2	+1	3	0	1	0	14.3	16:58
Peyton Krebs #19	C	1	1	2	+2	2	2	0	0	20.0	12:31
Tage Thompson #72	C	1	0	1	+1	1	0	0	0	63.6	13:33
Alex Tuch #89	R	0	1	1	+1	1	0	0	0	42.9	15:44
Josh Doan #91	R	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	12:57
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	1	1	+2	0	0	2	2	0.0	25:53
Owen Power #25	D	0	1	1	0	3	0	3	0	0.0	23:25
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	1	1	+2	0	5	3	0	0.0	28:02
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	64.7	19:30
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	0	1	5	2	0	33.3	11:25
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	0	0	-2	5	1	1	2	50.0	17:32
Jordan Greenway #12	L	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	2	0.0	11:02
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	+3	2	0	0	0	0.0	15:32
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	-1	5	0	1	0	0.0	16:32
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	23:59
Jacob Bryson #78	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0.0	08:36
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0.0	08:06

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Alex Lyon #34	W	34	31	3	.912	27/30	4/4	60:00

Nashville Predators

Predators skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Ryan O'Reilly #90	C	2	1	3	+2	4	0	0	2	42.3	20:42
Filip Forsberg #9	L	1	2	3	+1	7	1	1	0	100.0	19:38
Luke Evangelista #77	R	0	1	1	0	4	1	0	2	0.0	20:35
Brady Skjei #76	D	0	1	1	+1	2	0	2	0	0.0	26:15
Fedor Svechkov #40	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	75.0	13:19
Michael McCarron #47	C	0	0	0	-1	1	3	0	0	50.0	13:28
Ozzy Wiesblatt #89	C	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	0	0.0	11:24
Steven Stamkos #91	C	0	0	0	-2	1	1	0	0	50.0	18:06
Erik Haula #56	L	0	0	0	-2	1	3	0	0	75.0	13:28
Michael Bunting #58	L	0	0	0	-2	1	0	0	0	0.0	12:39
Cole Smith #36	R	0	0	0	-1	2	5	0	0	0.0	13:21
Jonathan Marchessault #81	R	0	0	0	+1	1	3	0	0	0.0	13:49
Matthew Wood #71	R	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	100.0	13:33
Justin Barron #20	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	08:22
Nick Blankenburg #37	D	0	0	0	-1	2	3	2	0	0.0	18:15
Nick Perbix #48	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	0.0	14:30
Nicolas Hague #41	D	0	0	0	-2	2	1	1	0	0.0	20:09
Roman Josi #59	D	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	0	0.0	28:24

Predators goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Juuse Saros #74	L	19	15	4	.789	15/19	0/0	23:54
Justus Annunen #29	—	13	13	0	1.000	12/12	1/1	34:09

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.