Game

Sabres at Panthers

Sabres 3, Panthers 2 · first star Beck Malenstyn (1 G, 0 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 Florida Panthers 2

Sabres BUF

3 FINAL 2

Panthers FLA

Friday, February 27, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Amerant Bank Arena, Sunrise · TV SN

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Sabres	1	0	2	3	39
Panthers	0	1	1	2	29

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Panthers 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; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: BUF 39, FLA 29.

BUF in red FLA in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 39 shots on goal (3 goals, 14 missed, 17 blocked) attacking left; Panthers 30 shots on goal (2 goals, 18 missed, 18 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	FLA SOG	FLA G	FLA ATT
1st	16	1	26	11	0	21
2nd	12	0	29	11	1	24
3rd	11	2	15	8	1	21
Total	39	3	70	30	2	66

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	FLA SOG	FLA G
Even strength	35	2	17	1
Power play	4	1	12	1
Short-handed	0	0	1	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Sabres took 51.5% of the shot attempts, and 59.4% of the 101 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 Panthers 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 Panthers
Period	FLA CF%	FLA FF%
1st	44.7	45.7
2nd	45.3	43.6
3rd	58.3	55.6
Game	48.5	47.5

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

Scoring summary

1st period

17:48 Alex Tuch (23) PP Ryan McLeod (31), Bowen Byram (20) · snap 1–0

2nd period

13:51 Matthew Tkachuk (5) PP Brad Marchand (26), Sam Bennett (25) · snap 1–1

3rd period

11:38 Beck Malenstyn (5) Josh Norris (12), Noah Ostlund (10) · slap 2–1
18:43 Peyton Krebs (9) EN Tage Thompson (31), Alex Tuch (27) · wrist 3–1
19:25 Sam Bennett (20) Unassisted 3–2

Three stars

Beck Malenstyn BUF · L #29 · 1 G, 0 A
Alex Lyon BUF · G #34 · 0 GA, .966 SV%
Matthew Tkachuk FLA · L #19 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	02:00	BUF	Beck Malenstyn	tripping	2	Donovan Sebrango
1st	15:57	FLA	A.J. Greer	hooking	2	Josh Dunne
2nd	09:47	BUF	Bench	too many men on the ice	2	—
2nd	13:45	BUF	Michael Kesselring	hooking	2	Sam Bennett
2nd	17:55	FLA	Gustav Forsling	holding	2	Josh Doan
3rd	05:20	BUF	Josh Dunne	hooking	2	Aaron Ekblad
3rd	11:38	FLA	Bench	delaying game unsuccessful challenge	2	—

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Alex Tuch #89	R	1	1	2	+1	6	1	3	0	0.0	19:23
Peyton Krebs #19	C	1	0	1	+1	2	1	0	0	66.7	14:37
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	1	0	1	+1	3	1	1	2	0.0	10:57
Josh Norris #9	C	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	47.4	17:46
Noah Ostlund #86	C	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	33.3	14:23
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	30.8	15:58
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	1	1	+1	1	0	1	0	26.7	19:39
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	1	1	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	23:42
Josh Dunne #44	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	75.0	08:54
Tyson Kozak #48	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	0	22.2	10:45
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	15:52
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	14:35
Josh Doan #91	R	0	0	0	-1	3	3	1	0	0.0	16:23
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	0	0	+1	3	3	2	0	0.0	23:42
Michael Kesselring #8	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	2	0.0	12:19
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	0	3	0	4	0	0.0	23:46
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	25:04
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	06:13

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Alex Lyon #34	W	29	28	2	.966	16/16	11/12	60:00

Florida Panthers

Panthers skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Sam Bennett #9	C	1	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	61.1	21:19
Matthew Tkachuk #19	L	1	0	1	0	5	0	0	0	0.0	21:34
Brad Marchand #63	L	0	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	0.0	16:10
Anton Lundell #15	C	0	0	0	+1	0	2	1	0	52.9	16:43
Carter Verhaeghe #23	C	0	0	0	-2	0	2	0	0	0.0	17:21
Eetu Luostarinen #27	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0.0	15:09
Evan Rodrigues #17	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	0	75.0	17:36
Luke Kunin #71	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	85.7	06:43
Sam Reinhart #13	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	33.3	22:24
A.J. Greer #10	L	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	0.0	08:21
Sandis Vilmanis #95	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	07:52
Mackie Samoskevich #11	R	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0.0	12:49
Aaron Ekblad #5	D	0	0	0	0	3	4	1	0	0.0	27:18
Donovan Sebrango #6	D	0	0	0	-1	1	3	1	0	0.0	10:23
Gustav Forsling #42	D	0	0	0	0	3	0	3	2	0.0	23:51
Jeff Petry #2	D	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0.0	16:24
Niko Mikkola #77	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	0	0.0	25:29
Uvis Balinskis #26	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	08:38

Panthers goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Daniil Tarasov #40	L	38	36	2	.947	33/34	3/4	58:05

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.