Game

Sabres at Islanders

Sabres 5, Islanders 0 · first star Alex Lyon (0 GA, .000 SV%).

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 Islanders 0

Sabres BUF

5 FINAL 0

Islanders NYI

Saturday, January 24, 2026 · 1:00 PM ET · UBS Arena, Elmont · TV SN

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Sabres	0	2	3	5	21
Islanders	0	0	0	0	26

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Islanders 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 21, NYI 26.

BUF in red NYI in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 21 shots on goal (5 goals, 11 missed, 14 blocked) attacking left; Islanders 26 shots on goal (0 goals, 15 missed, 13 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	NYI SOG	NYI ATT
1st	6	0	17	13	21
2nd	7	2	19	7	17
3rd	8	3	10	6	16
Total	21	5	46	26	54

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	NYI SOG
Even strength	21	5	23
Power play	0	0	0
Short-handed	0	0	3
Into an empty net	1	1	0

Attempt share by period

Islanders took 54.0% of the shot attempts, and 48.2% of the 83 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 Islanders 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 Islanders
Period	NYI CF%	NYI FF%
1st	55.3	60.7
2nd	47.2	53.9
3rd	61.5	52.6
Game	54.0	56.2

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

Scoring summary

2nd period

00:33 Jason Zucker (12) Jack Quinn (19), Ryan McLeod (22) · snap 1–0
19:47 Tage Thompson (27) Zach Benson (18), Mattias Samuelsson (19) · snap 2–0

3rd period

00:25 Jason Zucker (13) Ryan McLeod (23) · snap 3–0
14:02 Rasmus Dahlin (8) EN Peyton Krebs (15) · wrist 4–0
14:38 Alex Tuch (18) Mattias Samuelsson (20), Michael Kesselring (1) · deflected 5–0

Three stars

Alex Lyon BUF · G #34 · 0 GA, .000 SV%
Jason Zucker BUF · L #17 · 2 G, 0 A
Tage Thompson BUF · C #72 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	11:17	BUF	Alex Lyon	hooking	2	Mathew Barzal
2nd	01:18	NYI	Anders Lee	tripping	2	Konsta Helenius
2nd	11:46	NYI	Matthew Schaefer	hooking	2	Noah Ostlund
2nd	14:57	BUF	Mattias Samuelsson	holding	2	Mathew Barzal
3rd	15:24	BUF	Michael Kesselring	cross checking	2	Jean-Gabriel Pageau
3rd	17:53	BUF	Zach Benson	slashing	2	Scott Mayfield
3rd	17:53	NYI	Scott Mayfield	cross checking	2	Zach Benson

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Jason Zucker #17	L	2	0	2	+2	3	0	2	0	33.3	13:44
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	2	2	+2	1	0	0	0	21.1	18:14
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	2	2	+4	1	2	1	2	0.0	21:32
Tage Thompson #72	C	1	0	1	+1	3	2	0	0	37.5	17:06
Alex Tuch #89	R	1	0	1	+2	1	0	2	0	0.0	17:57
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	1	0	1	+4	3	2	0	0	0.0	24:44
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	1	1	+2	0	2	0	0	20.0	12:44
Zach Benson #6	L	0	1	1	+1	0	2	0	2	0.0	17:32
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	1	1	+2	2	0	0	0	0.0	13:12
Michael Kesselring #8	D	0	1	1	+1	1	0	3	2	0.0	13:45
Konsta Helenius #94	C	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	100.0	11:03
Noah Ostlund #86	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	16.7	16:56
Tyson Kozak #48	C	0	0	0	+1	0	2	0	0	33.3	09:44
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	12:26
Josh Doan #91	R	0	0	0	+2	0	0	1	0	0.0	15:19
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	21:18
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	24:30
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	10:14

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Alex Lyon #34	W	26	26	0	1.000	23/23	0/0	60:00

New York Islanders

Islanders skaters · by points
Player	Pos	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Bo Horvat #14	C	-2	4	2	0	0	77.8	19:20
Calum Ritchie #64	C	-2	3	3	0	0	100.0	15:01
Casey Cizikas #53	C	-1	1	3	2	0	80.0	12:43
Jean-Gabriel Pageau #44	C	-1	1	1	1	0	75.0	16:58
Kyle MacLean #32	C	-1	1	2	1	0	0.0	12:35
Mathew Barzal #13	C	-1	0	0	0	0	50.0	12:45
Anders Lee #27	L	-1	3	1	0	2	66.7	11:28
Anthony Duclair #11	L	-1	0	0	4	0	0.0	12:15
Emil Heineman #51	L	-2	6	3	0	0	0.0	16:36
Jonathan Drouin #29	L	-2	0	0	0	0	0.0	17:18
Max Shabanov #49	R	-1	1	1	0	0	0.0	14:43
Simon Holmstrom #10	R	-2	1	0	0	0	0.0	19:51
Adam Boqvist #34	D	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	15:54
Adam Pelech #3	D	-3	1	3	1	0	0.0	20:26
Isaiah George #36	D	-1	0	0	1	0	0.0	13:56
Matthew Schaefer #48	D	-1	1	1	1	2	0.0	23:14
Scott Mayfield #24	D	-2	1	2	2	2	0.0	19:26
Tony DeAngelo #77	D	-2	2	0	0	0	0.0	21:28

Islanders goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
David Rittich #33	L	20	16	4	.800	16/20	0/0	58:03

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.