Game

Sabres at Golden Knights

Sabres 2, Golden Knights 0 · first star Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (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 2 at Vegas Golden Knights 0

Sabres BUF

2 FINAL 0

Golden Knights VGK

Tuesday, March 17, 2026 · 10:00 PM ET · T-Mobile Arena, Paradise

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Sabres	1	0	1	2	25
Golden Knights	0	0	0	0	29

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Golden Knights attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 3 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 25, VGK 29.

BUF in red VGK in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 25 shots on goal (2 goals, 13 missed, 12 blocked) attacking left; Golden Knights 29 shots on goal (0 goals, 19 missed, 15 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	VGK SOG	VGK ATT
1st	10	1	18	11	21
2nd	9	0	21	9	17
3rd	6	1	11	9	25
Total	25	2	50	29	63

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	VGK SOG
Even strength	21	2	24
Power play	4	0	5
Short-handed	0	0	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0

Attempt share by period

Golden Knights took 55.8% of the shot attempts, and 56.5% of the 92 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 Golden Knights 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 Golden Knights
Period	VGK CF%	VGK FF%
1st	53.9	55.9
2nd	44.7	48.1
3rd	69.4	64.0
Game	55.8	55.8

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

Scoring summary

1st period

18:02 Josh Doan (22) Unassisted · backhand 1–0

3rd period

19:02 Josh Norris (10) EN Peyton Krebs (22), Mattias Samuelsson (25) · wrist 2–0

Three stars

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen BUF · G #1 · 0 GA, .000 SV%
Adin Hill VGK · G #33 · 0 GA, .958 SV%
Josh Doan BUF · R #91 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	01:30	BUF	Owen Power	hooking	2	Ivan Barbashev
1st	13:08	VGK	Braeden Bowman	holding	2	Zach Benson
2nd	01:23	VGK	Brayden McNabb	high sticking	2	Tage Thompson
2nd	08:37	BUF	Bowen Byram	cross checking	2	Tomas Hertl
3rd	03:46	BUF	Sam Carrick	boarding	2	Rasmus Andersson
3rd	09:01	BUF	Noah Ostlund	roughing	2	Brayden McNabb
3rd	09:01	VGK	Brett Howden	roughing	2	Noah Ostlund

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Josh Norris #9	C	1	0	1	+2	5	0	2	0	54.5	13:28
Josh Doan #91	R	1	0	1	+2	3	1	0	0	0.0	13:30
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	1	1	+2	0	1	0	0	50.0	11:10
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	1	1	+1	1	0	4	0	0.0	22:20
Noah Ostlund #86	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	42.9	15:46
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	50.0	16:58
Sam Carrick #10	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	50.0	13:40
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	25.0	19:21
Tyson Kozak #48	C	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	100.0	11:10
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	0.0	12:30
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	14:55
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	0.0	17:17
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	15:41
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	0.0	21:31
Logan Stanley #64	D	0	0	0	+1	1	1	1	0	0.0	16:18
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0.0	21:41
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	0	0	+1	3	0	0	0	0.0	22:51
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	11:53

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen #1	W	29	29	0	1.000	24/24	5/5	60:00

Vegas Golden Knights

Golden Knights skaters · by points
Player	Pos	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Brett Howden #21	C	0	2	3	1	2	50.0	13:56
Colton Sissons #10	C	0	2	2	2	0	54.5	13:49
Jack Eichel #9	C	-2	2	0	0	0	27.3	20:06
Nic Dowd #26	C	0	1	3	0	0	77.8	11:17
Tomas Hertl #48	C	-1	3	5	0	0	52.6	17:39
Ivan Barbashev #49	L	-1	1	2	0	0	0.0	14:31
Braeden Bowman #42	R	0	1	0	1	2	0.0	14:04
Cole Smith #22	R	0	0	4	0	0	100.0	10:03
Keegan Kolesar #55	R	0	0	3	1	0	0.0	10:40
Mark Stone #61	R	-2	3	1	1	0	100.0	19:10
Mitch Marner #93	R	-1	1	0	0	0	33.3	22:23
Pavel Dorofeyev #16	R	-1	3	0	0	0	0.0	17:18
Brayden McNabb #3	D	0	3	2	1	2	0.0	18:37
Jeremy Lauzon #5	D	0	2	3	1	0	0.0	15:40
Kaedan Korczak #6	D	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	13:03
Noah Hanifin #15	D	-2	2	0	1	0	0.0	20:23
Rasmus Andersson #4	D	-1	0	0	2	0	0.0	21:15
Shea Theodore #27	D	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	20:37

Golden Knights goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Adin Hill #33	L	24	23	1	.958	19/20	4/4	59:29

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.