Game

Sabres at Penguins

Sabres 5, Penguins 1 · first star Owen Power (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 5 at Pittsburgh Penguins 1

Sabres BUF

5 FINAL 1

Penguins PIT

Thursday, March 5, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh · TV ESPN · SN · TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Sabres	1	3	1	5	26
Penguins	1	0	0	1	28

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Penguins attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 2 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 26, PIT 28.

BUF in red PIT in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 26 shots on goal (5 goals, 22 missed, 13 blocked) attacking left; Penguins 28 shots on goal (1 goal, 13 missed, 15 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	PIT SOG	PIT G	PIT ATT
1st	7	1	20	6	1	11
2nd	11	3	17	12	0	27
3rd	8	1	24	10	0	18
Total	26	5	61	28	1	56

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	PIT SOG	PIT G
Even strength	14	2	25	0
Power play	10	1	2	0
Short-handed	2	2	1	1
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Sabres took 52.1% of the shot attempts, and 47.2% of the 72 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 Penguins 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 Penguins
Period	PIT CF%	PIT FF%
1st	35.5	37.5
2nd	61.4	55.9
3rd	42.9	41.9
Game	47.9	46.1

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

Scoring summary

1st period

12:00 Ryan McLeod (12) SH Unassisted · backhand 1–0
14:48 Bryan Rust (21) SH Ben Kindel (15) · wrist 1–1

2nd period

04:10 Josh Norris (9) PP Josh Doan (23), Bowen Byram (22) · wrist 2–1
06:18 Alex Tuch (25) SH Owen Power (15), Tage Thompson (32) · tip-in 3–1
10:30 Owen Power (6) Josh Norris (13), Noah Ostlund (12) · wrist 4–1

3rd period

16:53 Mattias Samuelsson (12) EN Unassisted · wrist 5–1

Three stars

Owen Power BUF · D #25 · 1 G, 1 A
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen BUF · G #1 · 0 GA, .964 SV%
Bryan Rust PIT · R #17 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	03:22	BUF	Peyton Krebs	hooking	2	Evgeni Malkin
1st	08:16	PIT	Erik Karlsson	holding	2	Jack Quinn
1st	10:24	BUF	Bench	too many men on the ice	2	—
1st	14:04	PIT	Noel Acciari	holding	2	Tage Thompson
2nd	00:38	BUF	Rasmus Dahlin	cross checking	2	Evgeni Malkin
2nd	00:38	PIT	Evgeni Malkin	cross checking	2	Rasmus Dahlin
2nd	00:38	PIT	Evgeni Malkin	slashing (major)	5	Rasmus Dahlin
2nd	00:38	PIT	Evgeni Malkin	game misconduct	10	—
2nd	04:10	PIT	Bench	delaying game unsuccessful challenge	2	—
2nd	05:25	BUF	Ryan McLeod	slashing	2	Noel Acciari
2nd	14:44	BUF	Beck Malenstyn	boarding	2	Parker Wotherspoon
3rd	07:04	PIT	Ben Kindel	holding the stick	2	Peyton Krebs
3rd	11:54	BUF	Rasmus Dahlin	slashing	2	Anthony Mantha

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Josh Norris #9	C	1	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	50.0	17:41
Owen Power #25	D	1	1	2	+3	1	1	1	0	0.0	20:45
Ryan McLeod #71	C	1	0	1	+2	1	0	0	2	53.8	18:23
Alex Tuch #89	R	1	0	1	+2	3	1	1	0	25.0	17:37
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	1	0	1	+3	1	0	3	0	0.0	21:19
Noah Ostlund #86	C	0	1	1	+2	1	0	0	0	0.0	16:42
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	1	1	0	1	2	1	0	100.0	18:43
Josh Doan #91	R	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	18:28
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	22:32
Josh Dunne #44	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	100.0	08:37
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	0	0	0	1	4	1	2	66.7	10:35
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	2	100.0	14:25
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	100.0	14:11
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	+1	0	2	1	0	0.0	13:22
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	11:49
Michael Kesselring #8	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	12:58
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	0	0	+1	4	1	0	4	0.0	21:29
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	11:00

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen #1	W	28	27	1	.964	25/25	2/2	59:24

Pittsburgh Penguins

Penguins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Bryan Rust #17	R	1	0	1	+1	5	0	0	0	0.0	19:53
Ben Kindel #81	C	0	1	1	-2	0	1	0	2	36.4	14:52
Blake Lizotte #46	C	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	44.4	16:44
Connor Dewar #19	C	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	0.0	14:43
Evgeni Malkin #71	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	17	0.0	05:54
Noel Acciari #55	C	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	2	55.6	15:27
Tommy Novak #18	C	0	0	0	-2	1	0	0	0	40.0	15:03
Anthony Mantha #39	R	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	15:58
Avery Hayes #85	R	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	0.0	12:43
Egor Chinakhov #59	R	0	0	0	-4	1	1	0	0	0.0	17:27
Justin Brazeau #16	R	0	0	0	-1	3	2	0	0	0.0	14:13
Rickard Rakell #67	R	0	0	0	-1	2	2	0	0	40.0	18:34
Connor Clifton #75	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0.0	17:55
Erik Karlsson #65	D	0	0	0	-1	3	0	1	2	0.0	23:05
Kris Letang #58	D	0	0	0	-3	1	3	0	0	0.0	17:09
Parker Wotherspoon #28	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	14:54
Ryan Shea #5	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	2	0	0.0	18:30
Samuel Girard #49	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	3	0	0.0	18:02

Penguins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Arturs Silovs #37	L	25	21	4	.840	12/13	9/10	55:54

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.