Game

Sabres at Senators

Senators 4, Sabres 1 · first star Dylan Cozens (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 1 at Ottawa Senators 4

Sabres BUF

1 FINAL 4

Senators OTT

Thursday, April 2, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Sabres	0	1	0	1	22
Senators	0	1	3	4	24

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Senators attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 2 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 2 empty-net goals are drawn as diamonds. Boxscore shots on goal: BUF 22, OTT 24.

BUF in red OTT in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 22 shots on goal (1 goal, 14 missed, 10 blocked) attacking left; Senators 24 shots on goal (4 goals, 14 missed, 16 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	OTT SOG	OTT G	OTT ATT
1st	6	0	15	4	0	10
2nd	9	1	18	8	1	22
3rd	7	0	13	12	3	22
Total	22	1	46	24	4	54

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	OTT SOG	OTT G
Even strength	19	1	20	4
Power play	3	0	4	0
Short-handed	0	0	0	0
Into an empty net	0	0	2	2

Attempt share by period

Senators took 54.0% of the shot attempts, and 54.1% 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 Senators 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 Senators
Period	OTT CF%	OTT FF%
1st	40.0	38.9
2nd	55.0	53.3
3rd	62.9	57.7
Game	54.0	51.4

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

Scoring summary

2nd period

08:49 Mattias Samuelsson (13) Bowen Byram (28), Peyton Krebs (26) · wrist 1–0
15:18 Dylan Cozens (26) Brady Tkachuk (32), Ridly Greig (19) · tip-in 1–1

3rd period

05:55 Lars Eller (5) Artem Zub (23), Warren Foegele (4) · slap 1–2
17:42 Ridly Greig (12) EN Jordan Spence (22) · wrist 1–3
18:42 Shane Pinto (20) EN Unassisted · wrist 1–4

Three stars

Dylan Cozens OTT · C #24 · 1 G, 0 A
Jordan Spence OTT · D #10 · 0 G, 1 A
Linus Ullmark OTT · G #35 · 0 GA, .955 SV%

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	03:39	BUF	Zach Benson	holding	2	Brady Tkachuk
1st	09:59	OTT	Brady Tkachuk	slashing	2	Beck Malenstyn
1st	12:36	OTT	Jordan Spence	interference	2	Zach Benson
1st	17:09	BUF	Logan Stanley	fighting (major)	5	Brady Tkachuk
1st	17:09	OTT	Brady Tkachuk	fighting (major)	5	Logan Stanley
2nd	11:01	BUF	Ryan McLeod	cross checking	2	Tim Stützle
3rd	18:42	BUF	Josh Norris	abuse of officials	10	—

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	1	0	1	0	2	3	1	0	0.0	20:49
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	1	1	+1	2	4	1	0	33.3	12:16
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	1	1	-1	1	0	3	0	0.0	22:58
Josh Dunne #44	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	1	0	57.1	07:17
Josh Norris #9	C	0	0	0	-2	1	1	0	10	57.1	16:10
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	2	44.4	20:41
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	47.1	17:12
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	09:33
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	0	0	-2	0	2	1	0	0.0	16:48
Jordan Greenway #12	L	0	0	0	-1	0	2	2	0	0.0	11:39
Zach Benson #6	L	0	0	0	-2	1	1	0	2	100.0	17:35
Alex Tuch #89	R	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	75.0	18:57
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	-1	2	2	0	0	0.0	15:13
Josh Doan #91	R	0	0	0	-2	2	1	1	0	0.0	18:25
Logan Stanley #64	D	0	0	0	-1	2	3	0	5	0.0	13:30
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	0.0	19:34
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	0	0	-2	2	0	1	0	0.0	22:37
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	0.0	16:04

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen #1	L	22	20	2	.909	16/18	4/4	58:42

Ottawa Senators

Senators skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Ridly Greig #71	C	1	1	2	+2	1	2	1	0	40.0	17:08
Dylan Cozens #24	C	1	0	1	+1	6	4	1	0	40.0	16:09
Lars Eller #89	C	1	0	1	+1	3	0	0	0	46.2	08:18
Shane Pinto #12	C	1	0	1	+1	3	1	0	0	60.0	20:10
Brady Tkachuk #7	L	0	1	1	+1	0	3	1	7	55.6	15:55
Warren Foegele #37	L	0	1	1	+1	0	1	0	0	0.0	09:42
Artem Zub #2	D	0	1	1	+2	0	0	2	0	0.0	24:24
Jordan Spence #10	D	0	1	1	+3	2	2	3	2	0.0	30:48
Nick Cousins #21	C	0	0	0	+1	1	0	1	0	0.0	10:25
Tim Stützle #18	C	0	0	0	0	2	5	0	0	66.7	19:57
Fabian Zetterlund #20	L	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	0	0.0	14:12
Claude Giroux #28	R	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	33.3	13:52
Drake Batherson #19	R	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	100.0	15:18
Michael Amadio #22	R	0	0	0	+1	0	2	0	0	0.0	18:53
Cameron Crotty #5	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	13:37
Lassi Thomson #60	D	0	0	0	+2	0	1	0	0	0.0	20:55
Nikolas Matinpalo #33	D	0	0	0	-1	2	2	0	0	0.0	24:29
Tyler Kleven #43	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	01:48

Senators goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Linus Ullmark #35	W	22	21	1	.955	18/19	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.