Game

Sabres at Lightning

Lightning 4, Sabres 3 in overtime · first star Jake Guentzel (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 3 at Tampa Bay Lightning 4

Sabres BUF

3 FINAL/OT 4

Lightning TBL

Tuesday, February 3, 2026 · 7:30 PM ET · Benchmark International Arena, Tampa · TV ESPN+ · HULU

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	OT	T	SOG
Sabres	1	0	2	0	3	26
Lightning	1	0	2	1	4	35

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Lightning 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. Boxscore shots on goal: BUF 26, TBL 35.

BUF in red TBL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 26 shots on goal (3 goals, 12 missed, 11 blocked) attacking left; Lightning 35 shots on goal (4 goals, 14 missed, 10 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	TBL SOG	TBL G	TBL ATT
1st	9	1	18	13	1	21
2nd	4	0	12	10	0	17
3rd	8	2	14	11	2	18
OT	5	0	5	1	1	3
Total	26	3	49	35	4	59

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	TBL SOG	TBL G
Even strength	18	2	28	3
Power play	8	1	5	1
Short-handed	0	0	2	0

Attempt share by period

Lightning took 54.6% of the shot attempts, and 60.8% of the 74 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 Lightning 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 Lightning
Period	TBL CF%	TBL FF%
1st	53.9	51.6
2nd	58.6	68.2
3rd	56.3	57.7
OT	37.5	37.5
Game	54.6	56.3

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

Scoring summary

1st period

10:24 Nikita Kucherov (29) Jake Guentzel (34) · wrist 0–1
16:53 Mattias Samuelsson (10) Unassisted · wrist 1–1

3rd period

04:08 Mattias Samuelsson (11) Ryan McLeod (29), Jack Quinn (24) · wrist 2–1
08:53 Oliver Bjorkstrand (9) PP Darren Raddysh (34), Nikita Kucherov (59) · snap 2–2
14:53 Josh Doan (18) PP Tage Thompson (29), Rasmus Dahlin (36) · deflected 3–2
19:34 Darren Raddysh (17) Nikita Kucherov (60), Brandon Hagel (27) · slap 3–3

Overtime

04:45 Jake Guentzel (25) Nikita Kucherov (61), J.J. Moser (14) · snap 3–4

Three stars

Jake Guentzel TBL · C #59 · 1 G, 1 A
Nikita Kucherov TBL · R #86 · 1 G, 3 A
Mattias Samuelsson BUF · D #23 · 2 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	01:10	BUF	Noah Ostlund	holding	2	Jake Guentzel
1st	10:35	TBL	Gage Goncalves	holding	2	Josh Doan
1st	13:55	TBL	J.J. Moser	tripping	2	Jack Quinn
3rd	07:33	BUF	Bowen Byram	hooking	2	Brandon Hagel
3rd	12:55	TBL	Curtis Douglas	hooking	2	Konsta Helenius

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	2	0	2	+1	3	2	0	0	0.0	24:01
Josh Doan #91	R	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	16:29
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	47.4	19:31
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	1	1	-1	5	1	0	0	50.0	22:09
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	1	1	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	17:50
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	1	1	0	7	0	1	0	0.0	27:47
Konsta Helenius #94	C	0	0	0	+1	1	3	1	0	50.0	13:47
Noah Ostlund #86	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	50.0	14:36
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	0	0	-2	1	3	0	0	0.0	17:47
Tyson Kozak #48	C	0	0	0	+1	0	1	1	0	57.1	12:25
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	+1	1	2	0	0	100.0	09:08
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	60.0	17:10
Alex Tuch #89	R	0	0	0	-2	1	0	1	0	50.0	22:38
Isak Rosen #63	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	08:17
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	2	0.0	23:37
Jacob Bryson #78	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	11:01
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	2	0	0.0	21:51
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	11:12

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Colten Ellis #92	O	35	31	4	.886	25/28	4/5	64:24

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lightning skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Nikita Kucherov #86	R	1	3	4	+1	7	0	1	0	0.0	22:24
Jake Guentzel #59	C	1	1	2	+1	1	1	0	0	46.2	26:07
Darren Raddysh #43	D	1	1	2	-1	3	2	2	0	0.0	25:48
Oliver Bjorkstrand #22	R	1	0	1	+1	2	1	0	0	0.0	15:04
Brandon Hagel #38	L	0	1	1	0	4	1	0	0	0.0	25:40
J.J. Moser #90	D	0	1	1	-1	2	0	3	2	0.0	23:51
Curtis Douglas #42	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	0.0	05:45
Dominic James #17	C	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	45.5	13:02
Gage Goncalves #93	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0.0	13:52
Jack Finley #62	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	50.0	07:43
Yanni Gourde #37	C	0	0	0	+1	2	1	0	0	61.1	20:01
Zemgus Girgensons #28	C	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	0	0.0	17:07
Pontus Holmberg #29	R	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0.0	16:31
Scott Sabourin #46	R	0	0	0	0	1	4	1	0	0.0	06:03
Declan Carlile #67	D	0	0	0	+1	1	3	0	0	0.0	15:08
Erik Cernak #81	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	0	0.0	18:04
Ryan McDonagh #27	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	19:40
Victor Hedman #77	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	17:39

Lightning goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy #88	W	26	23	3	.885	16/18	7/8	63:33

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.