Game

Sabres at Sharks

Sabres 5, Sharks 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 San Jose Sharks 0

Sabres BUF

5 FINAL 0

Sharks SJS

Thursday, March 19, 2026 · 10:00 PM ET · SAP Center at San Jose, San Jose

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Sabres	0	3	2	5	16
Sharks	0	0	0	0	23

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Sharks 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 16, SJS 23.

BUF in red SJS in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 16 shots on goal (5 goals, 10 missed, 17 blocked) attacking left; Sharks 23 shots on goal (0 goals, 11 missed, 15 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	SJS SOG	SJS ATT
1st	5	0	17	7	13
2nd	3	3	11	10	22
3rd	8	2	15	6	14
Total	16	5	43	23	49

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	SJS SOG
Even strength	13	5	21
Power play	3	0	1
Short-handed	0	0	1

Attempt share by period

Sharks took 53.3% of the shot attempts, and 54.8% of the 84 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 Sharks 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 Sharks
Period	SJS CF%	SJS FF%
1st	43.3	50.0
2nd	66.7	69.6
3rd	48.3	47.4
Game	53.3	56.7

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

Scoring summary

2nd period

09:05 Noah Ostlund (11) Josh Doan (24), Logan Stanley (13) · wrist 1–0
09:41 Sam Carrick (7) Rasmus Dahlin (48), Zach Benson (23) · wrist 2–0
10:48 Rasmus Dahlin (14) Jason Zucker (17), Mattias Samuelsson (26) · wrist 3–0

3rd period

00:40 Tage Thompson (35) Peyton Krebs (23), Alex Tuch (30) · wrist 4–0
16:54 Sam Carrick (8) Logan Stanley (14), Zach Metsa (3) · deflected 5–0

Three stars

Alex Lyon BUF · G #34 · 0 GA, .000 SV%
Rasmus Dahlin BUF · D #26 · 1 G, 1 A
Mattias Samuelsson BUF · D #23 · 0 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	10:56	SJS	Alexander Wennberg	high sticking	2	Tage Thompson
1st	16:09	BUF	Jason Zucker	high sticking	2	Kiefer Sherwood
2nd	04:38	BUF	Owen Power	holding	2	Pavol Regenda
3rd	13:40	SJS	Barclay Goodrow	slashing	2	Peyton Krebs

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Sam Carrick #10	C	2	0	2	+2	3	0	0	0	88.9	13:27
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	1	1	2	+2	1	0	0	0	0.0	19:15
Logan Stanley #64	D	0	2	2	+2	1	1	2	0	0.0	18:06
Noah Ostlund #86	C	1	0	1	+1	2	0	1	0	50.0	16:06
Tage Thompson #72	C	1	0	1	+1	1	3	0	0	25.0	16:50
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	1	1	+1	0	2	1	0	0.0	14:17
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	2	0.0	14:08
Zach Benson #6	L	0	1	1	+2	0	1	0	0	0.0	11:59
Alex Tuch #89	R	0	1	1	+1	0	1	2	0	0.0	17:36
Josh Doan #91	R	0	1	1	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	15:17
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	1	1	+2	1	0	1	0	0.0	18:36
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	1	1	+2	0	0	1	0	0.0	15:48
Josh Norris #9	C	0	0	0	+1	0	1	1	0	53.3	14:54
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	40.0	15:58
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	+2	0	3	0	0	0.0	13:54
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	+1	2	1	1	0	0.0	14:55
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	0	0	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	24:07
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	3	2	0.0	20:47

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Alex Lyon #34	W	23	23	0	1.000	21/21	1/1	60:00

San Jose Sharks

Sharks skaters · by points
Player	Pos	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Alexander Wennberg #21	C	-2	0	2	1	2	35.0	17:42
Barclay Goodrow #23	C	-1	3	2	0	2	0.0	11:36
Macklin Celebrini #71	C	-1	1	3	1	0	66.7	21:33
Michael Misa #77	C	-1	0	1	2	0	80.0	14:20
Tyler Toffoli #73	C	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	03:41
Will Smith #2	C	-1	3	0	0	0	0.0	20:29
Zack Ostapchuk #63	C	-1	2	1	1	0	40.0	11:40
Kiefer Sherwood #44	L	-2	4	3	1	0	100.0	20:43
Pavol Regenda #84	L	-1	0	3	0	0	100.0	14:16
William Eklund #72	L	-2	2	0	0	0	0.0	15:54
Adam Gaudette #81	R	-2	0	1	0	0	0.0	10:54
Collin Graf #51	R	-1	1	0	0	0	100.0	17:27
Dmitry Orlov #9	D	-2	1	1	0	0	0.0	19:15
Mario Ferraro #38	D	-2	1	3	3	0	0.0	23:06
Nick Leddy #4	D	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	18:15
Sam Dickinson #6	D	-2	1	2	3	0	0.0	19:02
Shakir Mukhamadullin #85	D	-2	0	2	0	0	0.0	16:16
Vincent Desharnais #5	D	-1	1	3	4	0	0.0	19:51

Sharks goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Alex Nedeljkovic #33	L	16	11	5	.688	8/13	3/3	60:00

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.