Game

Red Wings at Sabres

Red Wings 5, Sabres 2 · first star Lucas Raymond (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.

Detroit Red Wings 5 at Buffalo Sabres 2

Red Wings DET

5 FINAL 2

Sabres BUF

Friday, March 27, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · KeyBank Center, Buffalo · TV NHLN · TVAS2

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Red Wings	3	0	2	5	20
Sabres	0	1	1	2	30

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Red Wings attack left, Sabres 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: DET 20, BUF 30.

DET in red BUF in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Red Wings 20 shots on goal (5 goals, 10 missed, 7 blocked) attacking left; Sabres 30 shots on goal (2 goals, 21 missed, 17 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	DET SOG	DET G	DET ATT	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT
1st	10	3	17	11	0	20
2nd	3	0	5	12	1	33
3rd	7	2	15	7	1	15
Total	20	5	37	30	2	68

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	DET SOG	DET G	BUF SOG	BUF G
Even strength	12	3	25	2
Power play	7	2	4	0
Short-handed	1	0	1	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Sabres took 64.8% of the shot attempts, and 67.7% of the 68 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 Sabres and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Red Wings hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Red Wings at Sabres
Period	BUF CF%	BUF FF%
1st	54.0	51.5
2nd	86.8	85.7
3rd	50.0	50.0
Game	64.8	63.0

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

Scoring summary

1st period

04:02 Alex DeBrincat (36) PP Moritz Seider (41), Dylan Larkin (28) · wrist 1–0
09:11 Lucas Raymond (23) PP Moritz Seider (42) · snap 2–0
16:06 Marco Kasper (8) Emmitt Finnie (15), James van Riemsdyk (14) · wrist 3–0

2nd period

05:35 Tage Thompson (37) Peyton Krebs (25), Conor Timmins (7) · slap 3–1

3rd period

15:46 Jacob Bernard-Docker (1) Patrick Kane (31), Alex DeBrincat (40) · snap 4–1
16:25 Rasmus Dahlin (16) Tanner Pearson (7), Bowen Byram (27) · wrist 4–2
18:17 Patrick Kane (13) EN Alex DeBrincat (41) · wrist 5–2

Three stars

Lucas Raymond DET · L #23 · 1 G, 0 A
Moritz Seider DET · D #53 · 0 G, 2 A
John Gibson DET · G #36 · 0 GA, .933 SV%

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	03:57	BUF	Josh Norris	high sticking	2	J.T. Compher
1st	08:25	BUF	Logan Stanley	interference	2	Lucas Raymond
1st	17:51	DET	Jacob Bernard-Docker	tripping	2	Beck Malenstyn
2nd	11:09	DET	Lucas Raymond	roughing	2	Rasmus Dahlin
2nd	11:09	BUF	Rasmus Dahlin	roughing	2	Lucas Raymond
2nd	14:31	BUF	Logan Stanley	slashing	2	Moritz Seider
2nd	17:30	DET	Mason Appleton	holding	2	Tage Thompson
3rd	05:53	BUF	Rasmus Dahlin	high sticking	2	Patrick Kane
3rd	07:48	DET	Justin Faulk	tripping	2	Zach Benson
3rd	09:44	BUF	Tage Thompson	high sticking double minor	4	Simon Edvinsson

Boxscore

Detroit Red Wings

Red Wings skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Alex DeBrincat #93	R	1	2	3	+1	4	0	0	0	0.0	18:56
Patrick Kane #88	R	1	1	2	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	18:01
Moritz Seider #53	D	0	2	2	+1	1	1	3	0	0.0	29:48
Marco Kasper #92	C	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	50.0	14:05
Lucas Raymond #23	L	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	0.0	20:14
Jacob Bernard-Docker #25	D	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	0.0	09:46
Dylan Larkin #71	C	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	66.7	23:14
Emmitt Finnie #58	C	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	13:02
James van Riemsdyk #21	L	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	09:17
Andrew Copp #18	C	0	0	0	+1	1	2	3	0	54.5	18:47
Mason Appleton #22	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	2	0.0	08:15
David Perron #57	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	10:13
J.T. Compher #37	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	44.4	21:18
Dominik Shine #65	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	50.0	04:41
Albert Johansson #20	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	0.0	10:11
Ben Chiarot #8	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	2	0	0.0	17:55
Justin Faulk #72	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	2	0.0	20:11
Simon Edvinsson #77	D	0	0	0	+1	1	2	0	0	0.0	24:06

Red Wings goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
John Gibson #36	W	30	28	2	.933	23/25	4/4	60:00

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Tage Thompson #72	C	1	0	1	0	4	0	1	4	37.5	21:16
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	1	0	1	+1	2	0	0	4	0.0	23:30
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	1	1	+1	1	4	0	0	50.0	13:12
Tanner Pearson #70	L	0	1	1	+1	0	1	0	0	0.0	05:43
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	1	1	-1	3	3	1	0	0.0	21:17
Conor Timmins #21	D	0	1	1	+1	1	1	2	0	0.0	14:30
Josh Norris #9	C	0	0	0	-1	2	4	1	2	60.0	16:38
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	30.8	18:26
Sam Carrick #10	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	50.0	06:46
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0.0	09:28
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	0	0	-1	2	1	0	0	0.0	17:04
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	-3	1	0	0	0	50.0	16:55
Alex Tuch #89	R	0	0	0	+2	4	0	0	0	0.0	18:51
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	-1	6	0	0	0	0.0	17:24
Josh Doan #91	R	0	0	0	-1	1	2	0	0	0.0	15:18
Logan Stanley #64	D	0	0	0	+1	0	2	1	4	0.0	12:05
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	0	0	-1	0	5	0	0	0.0	21:51
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	-3	2	0	0	0	0.0	20:58

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Alex Lyon #34	L	19	15	4	.789	9/11	5/7	57:57

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.