Game

Sabres at Kings

Sabres 4, Kings 1 · first star Tage Thompson (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 4 at Los Angeles Kings 1

Sabres BUF

4 FINAL 1

Kings LAK

Saturday, March 21, 2026 · 4:00 PM ET · Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Sabres	0	1	3	4	33
Kings	1	0	0	1	27

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Kings 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; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: BUF 33, LAK 27.

BUF in red LAK in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 34 shots on goal (4 goals, 9 missed, 15 blocked) attacking left; Kings 27 shots on goal (1 goal, 10 missed, 17 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	LAK SOG	LAK G	LAK ATT
1st	13	0	22	8	1	16
2nd	7	1	10	13	0	24
3rd	14	3	26	6	0	14
Total	34	4	58	27	1	54

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	LAK SOG	LAK G
Even strength	29	3	21	0
Power play	2	1	6	1
Short-handed	3	0	0	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Sabres took 51.8% of the shot attempts, and 54.4% 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 Kings 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 Kings
Period	LAK CF%	LAK FF%
1st	42.1	43.3
2nd	70.6	68.0
3rd	35.0	28.0
Game	48.2	46.3

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

Scoring summary

1st period

10:48 Artemi Panarin (24) PP Anze Kopitar (22), Adrian Kempe (33) · slap 0–1

2nd period

04:05 Tage Thompson (36) Peyton Krebs (24), Mattias Samuelsson (27) · wrist 1–1

3rd period

11:12 Sam Carrick (9) Zach Benson (24), Zach Metsa (4) · backhand 2–1
12:11 Rasmus Dahlin (15) PP Unassisted 3–1
17:35 Zach Benson (8) EN Josh Norris (15), Beck Malenstyn (6) · wrist 4–1

Three stars

Tage Thompson BUF · C #72 · 1 G, 0 A
Sam Carrick BUF · C #10 · 1 G, 0 A
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen BUF · G #1 · 0 GA, .963 SV%

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	09:53	BUF	Jack Quinn	hooking	2	Adrian Kempe
2nd	11:15	BUF	Mattias Samuelsson	tripping	2	Joel Armia
2nd	18:05	BUF	Zach Metsa	tripping	2	Scott Laughton
3rd	11:12	LAK	Bench	delaying game unsuccessful challenge	2	—

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Zach Benson #6	L	1	1	2	+2	1	0	0	0	0.0	15:16
Sam Carrick #10	C	1	0	1	+1	3	1	1	0	42.9	15:38
Tage Thompson #72	C	1	0	1	+1	3	1	0	0	22.2	18:11
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	1	0	1	+2	1	1	1	0	0.0	23:07
Josh Norris #9	C	0	1	1	+1	0	0	2	0	41.7	14:40
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	1	1	+1	2	1	0	0	42.9	15:03
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	1	1	+2	3	3	1	0	0.0	14:47
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	1	1	+1	0	0	2	2	0.0	21:40
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	1	1	+1	1	1	2	2	0.0	13:59
Noah Ostlund #86	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	13:01
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	25.0	11:52
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	12:30
Alex Tuch #89	R	0	0	0	+1	4	1	1	0	0.0	20:06
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	2	0.0	11:43
Josh Doan #91	R	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	0.0	12:44
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	22:20
Logan Stanley #64	D	0	0	0	+2	3	1	2	0	0.0	16:26
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	22:02

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen #1	W	27	26	1	.963	21/21	5/6	60:00

Los Angeles Kings

Kings skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	FO%	TOI
Artemi Panarin #10	L	1	0	1	-2	3	0	0	0.0	22:06
Anze Kopitar #11	C	0	1	1	-2	1	0	0	57.9	19:52
Adrian Kempe #9	R	0	1	1	-2	1	2	0	0.0	21:06
Samuel Helenius #79	C	0	0	0	-1	0	3	1	80.0	09:06
Scott Laughton #21	C	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	66.7	15:00
Jeff Malott #39	L	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0.0	10:00
Trevor Moore #12	L	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0.0	14:47
Alex Laferriere #14	R	0	0	0	-1	2	5	2	0.0	18:32
Jared Wright #53	R	0	0	0	0	4	1	1	0.0	12:22
Joel Armia #40	R	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	0.0	13:44
Quinton Byfield #55	R	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	76.5	18:45
Taylor Ward #52	R	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0.0	09:45
Brandt Clarke #92	D	0	0	0	-2	3	0	3	0.0	20:38
Brian Dumoulin #2	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	0.0	17:11
Cody Ceci #5	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	2	0.0	18:11
Drew Doughty #8	D	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0.0	21:05
Joel Edmundson #6	D	0	0	0	-2	0	2	0	0.0	17:28
Mikey Anderson #44	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	20:48

Kings goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Anton Forsberg #31	L	32	30	3	.938	26/28	1/1	58:35

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.