Game

Lightning at Sabres

Sabres 4, Lightning 2 · first star Alex Tuch (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.

Tampa Bay Lightning 2 at Buffalo Sabres 4

Lightning TBL

2 FINAL 4

Sabres BUF

Monday, April 6, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · KeyBank Center, Buffalo · TV NHLN · TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Lightning	1	1	0	2	25
Sabres	2	1	1	4	30

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Lightning attack left, Sabres 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: TBL 25, BUF 30.

TBL in red BUF in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Lightning 25 shots on goal (2 goals, 16 missed, 11 blocked) attacking left; Sabres 30 shots on goal (4 goals, 13 missed, 10 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	TBL SOG	TBL G	TBL ATT	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT
1st	8	1	10	11	2	23
2nd	8	1	17	14	1	20
3rd	9	0	25	5	1	10
Total	25	2	52	30	4	53

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	TBL SOG	TBL G	BUF SOG	BUF G
Even strength	20	1	20	4
Power play	5	1	7	0
Short-handed	0	0	3	0
Into an empty net	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Sabres took 50.5% of the shot attempts, and 47.1% of the 70 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 Lightning hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Lightning at Sabres
Period	BUF CF%	BUF FF%
1st	69.7	66.7
2nd	54.0	56.3
3rd	28.6	32.1
Game	50.5	51.2

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

Scoring summary

1st period

05:42 Alex Tuch (30) Bowen Byram (29), Ryan McLeod (39) · snap 0–1
11:45 Nikita Kucherov (43) PP Jake Guentzel (49), Darren Raddysh (47) · snap 1–1
14:04 Josh Norris (11) Josh Doan (25), Zach Benson (27) · wrist 1–2

2nd period

03:56 Jake Guentzel (37) Brayden Point (30), Darren Raddysh (48) · wrist 2–2
07:38 Jason Zucker (23) Bowen Byram (30), Rasmus Dahlin (52) · tip-in 2–3

3rd period

18:06 Jack Quinn (19) EN Jason Zucker (18), Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (1) · wrist 2–4

Three stars

Alex Tuch BUF · R #89 · 1 G, 0 A
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen BUF · G #1 · 0 GA, .920 SV%
Jason Zucker BUF · L #17 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	01:56	TBL	Pontus Holmberg	holding the stick	2	Tage Thompson
1st	03:33	BUF	Alex Tuch	holding the stick	2	J.J. Moser
1st	07:19	TBL	Charle-Edouard D'Astous	tripping	2	Beck Malenstyn
1st	10:03	BUF	Jordan Greenway	cross checking	2	Darren Raddysh
1st	10:03	BUF	Josh Dunne	roughing	2	Corey Perry
1st	10:03	TBL	Corey Perry	roughing	2	Josh Dunne
1st	16:37	BUF	Josh Doan	tripping	2	Jake Guentzel
1st	19:25	TBL	Zemgus Girgensons	slashing	2	Josh Doan
2nd	04:06	BUF	Jack Quinn	high sticking	2	Zemgus Girgensons
2nd	10:05	TBL	Erik Cernak	interference	2	Rasmus Dahlin
2nd	16:32	BUF	Alex Tuch	tripping	2	Nikita Kucherov
3rd	10:40	BUF	Zach Benson	roughing	2	Jake Guentzel
3rd	10:40	TBL	Jake Guentzel	roughing	2	Zach Benson

Boxscore

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lightning skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Jake Guentzel #59	C	1	1	2	-1	6	1	0	2	56.2	24:54
Darren Raddysh #43	D	0	2	2	-2	4	0	0	0	0.0	25:45
Nikita Kucherov #86	R	1	0	1	-1	3	0	0	0	0.0	23:30
Brayden Point #21	C	0	1	1	-1	2	1	0	0	50.0	20:11
Gage Goncalves #93	C	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0.0	19:17
Yanni Gourde #37	C	0	0	0	-2	0	0	1	0	22.2	14:53
Zemgus Girgensons #28	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	42.9	11:29
Nick Paul #20	L	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	72.2	18:05
Corey Perry #10	R	0	0	0	-2	1	0	1	2	0.0	12:36
Mitchell Chaffee #41	R	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	33.3	06:23
Oliver Bjorkstrand #22	R	0	0	0	0	1	5	1	0	0.0	14:57
Pontus Holmberg #29	R	0	0	0	-2	0	1	1	2	0.0	08:21
Scott Sabourin #46	R	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0.0	05:58
Charle-Edouard D'Astous #51	D	0	0	0	-1	3	2	0	2	0.0	18:02
Emil Lilleberg #78	D	0	0	0	-1	0	2	2	0	0.0	16:58
Erik Cernak #81	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	2	0.0	13:58
J.J. Moser #90	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	19:54
Ryan McDonagh #27	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	0	0.0	16:44

Lightning goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy #88	L	29	26	3	.897	16/19	7/7	58:05

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Jason Zucker #17	L	1	1	2	+2	4	0	0	0	0.0	13:44
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	2	2	+2	1	0	0	0	0.0	21:16
Josh Norris #9	C	1	0	1	+1	2	2	1	0	35.3	17:10
Alex Tuch #89	R	1	0	1	0	6	2	0	4	66.7	17:59
Jack Quinn #22	R	1	0	1	+2	4	0	0	2	0.0	14:24
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	1	1	+3	0	0	0	0	61.5	17:31
Zach Benson #6	L	0	1	1	+1	3	1	0	2	0.0	17:44
Josh Doan #91	R	0	1	1	+1	0	2	0	2	0.0	14:40
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	1	1	+2	1	1	0	0	0.0	23:01
Josh Dunne #44	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	2	50.0	07:58
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	62.5	12:37
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	0	0	-1	1	3	0	0	42.9	17:56
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	0	1	5	2	0	0.0	12:53
Jordan Greenway #12	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0.0	11:19
Logan Stanley #64	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0.0	12:40
Luke Schenn #5	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0.0	12:54
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	0	0	+2	1	2	1	0	0.0	22:44
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	19:48

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen #1	W	25	23	2	.920	19/20	4/5	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.