Game

Islanders at Sabres

Sabres 4, Islanders 3 · first star Peyton Krebs (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.

New York Islanders 3 at Buffalo Sabres 4

Islanders NYI

3 FINAL 4

Sabres BUF

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · KeyBank Center, Buffalo

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Islanders	0	1	2	3	28
Sabres	1	0	3	4	33

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Islanders attack left, Sabres attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 6 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: NYI 28, BUF 33.

NYI in red BUF in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Islanders 28 shots on goal (3 goals, 9 missed, 15 blocked) attacking left; Sabres 33 shots on goal (4 goals, 21 missed, 11 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	NYI SOG	NYI G	NYI ATT	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT
1st	6	0	12	12	1	23
2nd	9	1	16	7	0	18
3rd	13	2	24	14	3	24
Total	28	3	52	33	4	65

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	NYI SOG	NYI G	BUF SOG	BUF G
Even strength	23	2	27	2
Power play	3	1	6	2
Short-handed	2	0	0	0
Into an empty net	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Sabres took 55.6% of the shot attempts, and 60.0% of the 85 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 Islanders hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Islanders at Sabres
Period	BUF CF%	BUF FF%
1st	65.7	71.4
2nd	52.9	52.0
3rd	50.0	55.3
Game	55.6	59.3

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

Scoring summary

1st period

14:19 Jack Quinn (18) PP Josh Norris (16) · wrist 0–1

2nd period

17:57 Calum Ritchie (12) PP Brayden Schenn (21), Bo Horvat (23) · wrist 1–1

3rd period

02:40 Tage Thompson (38) PP Josh Norris (17), Jack Quinn (31) · wrist 1–2
13:39 Anders Lee (18) Bo Horvat (24), Matthew Schaefer (35) · wrist 2–2
16:59 Peyton Krebs (11) Alex Tuch (31), Tage Thompson (40) · snap 2–3
18:17 Bowen Byram (11) EN Mattias Samuelsson (28) · wrist 2–4
19:59 Brayden Schenn (17) Mathew Barzal (49), Bo Horvat (25) · wrist 3–4

Three stars

Peyton Krebs BUF · C #19 · 1 G, 0 A
Jack Quinn BUF · R #22 · 1 G, 1 A
Josh Norris BUF · C #9 · 0 G, 2 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	00:41	NYI	Carson Soucy	high sticking	2	Zach Benson
1st	01:31	BUF	Josh Norris	interference	2	Matthew Schaefer
1st	13:58	NYI	Adam Pelech	high sticking	2	Josh Doan
2nd	02:18	NYI	Casey Cizikas	high sticking	2	Bowen Byram
2nd	06:34	BUF	Owen Power	ps slash on breakaway	0	Anders Lee
2nd	17:41	BUF	Mattias Samuelsson	delaying game puck over glass	2	—
3rd	00:01	NYI	Anders Lee	fighting (major)	5	Sam Carrick
3rd	00:01	BUF	Sam Carrick	fighting (major)	5	Anders Lee
3rd	01:28	NYI	Carson Soucy	hooking	2	Tage Thompson
3rd	08:45	BUF	Josh Norris	roughing	2	Scott Mayfield
3rd	08:45	NYI	Scott Mayfield	roughing	2	Josh Norris
3rd	08:45	BUF	Josh Norris	roughing	2	Scott Mayfield

Boxscore

New York Islanders

Islanders skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Bo Horvat #14	C	0	3	3	0	3	1	0	0	52.2	21:22
Brayden Schenn #10	C	1	1	2	0	1	3	0	0	57.1	18:54
Calum Ritchie #64	C	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	16:33
Anders Lee #27	L	1	0	1	+1	2	4	0	5	0.0	14:10
Mathew Barzal #13	C	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	20:24
Matthew Schaefer #48	D	0	1	1	0	4	0	1	0	0.0	29:40
Casey Cizikas #53	C	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	2	55.6	13:17
Jean-Gabriel Pageau #44	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	55.6	15:19
Kyle MacLean #32	C	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	100.0	12:18
Marc Gatcomb #16	C	0	0	0	0	2	3	2	0	0.0	11:07
Anthony Duclair #11	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	11:29
Emil Heineman #51	L	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0.0	15:21
Ondrej Palat #81	L	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	0	0.0	11:42
Adam Boqvist #34	D	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	13:02
Adam Pelech #3	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	2	0.0	21:17
Carson Soucy #4	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	4	0.0	19:22
Ryan Pulock #6	D	0	0	0	+1	2	0	2	0	0.0	19:17
Scott Mayfield #24	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0.0	12:01

Islanders goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Ilya Sorokin #30	L	32	29	3	.906	25/26	4/6	57:52

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Tage Thompson #72	C	1	1	2	0	3	1	0	0	58.3	21:31
Jack Quinn #22	R	1	1	2	-1	7	3	0	0	0.0	16:11
Josh Norris #9	C	0	2	2	+1	1	2	0	6	40.0	15:04
Peyton Krebs #19	C	1	0	1	0	1	5	0	0	25.0	17:37
Bowen Byram #4	D	1	0	1	0	2	1	3	0	0.0	22:14
Alex Tuch #89	R	0	1	1	0	0	3	2	0	100.0	20:25
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	1	1	0	1	3	2	2	0.0	22:44
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	2	0	44.4	18:38
Sam Carrick #10	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	5	44.4	06:47
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	50.0	11:20
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	0	33.3	15:32
Jordan Greenway #12	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0.0	11:13
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	+1	4	1	0	0	0.0	13:02
Josh Doan #91	R	0	0	0	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	13:17
Logan Stanley #64	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0.0	13:54
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	-2	1	0	1	0	0.0	19:16
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	0	0	+1	3	0	0	0	0.0	23:14
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	14:04

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen #1	W	28	25	3	.893	21/23	2/3	59:41

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.