Game

Sabres at Rangers

Sabres 5, Rangers 3 · first star Jason Zucker (1 G, 1 A).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Buffalo Sabres 5 at New York Rangers 3

Sabres BUF

5 FINAL 3

Rangers NYR

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Madison Square Garden, New York · TV TNT · truTV · HBO MAX

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Sabres	2	0	3	5	27
Rangers	1	2	0	3	20

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Rangers attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so a mark in a team's own end would be an attempt logged from there (none in this game); 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: BUF 27, NYR 20.

BUF in red NYR in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 27 shots on goal (5 goals, 14 missed, 11 blocked) attacking left; Rangers 20 shots on goal (3 goals, 9 missed, 24 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	NYR SOG	NYR G	NYR ATT
1st	11	2	17	12	1	31
2nd	8	0	24	7	2	15
3rd	8	3	11	1	0	7
Total	27	5	52	20	3	53

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	NYR SOG	NYR G
Even strength	23	5	17	1
Power play	4	0	2	2
Short-handed	0	0	1	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Rangers took 50.5% of the shot attempts, and 51.2% of the 84 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 Rangers 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 Rangers
Period	NYR CF%	NYR FF%
1st	64.6	54.8
2nd	38.5	30.8
3rd	38.9	30.8
Game	50.5	41.4

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

Scoring summary

1st period

04:40 Ryan McLeod (13) Jason Zucker (19), Conor Timmins (8) · snap 1–0
08:58 Zach Benson (11) Rasmus Dahlin (53), Bowen Byram (31) · deflected 2–0
19:21 Alexis Lafrenière (23) PP Adam Fox (43), J.T. Miller (34) · tip-in 2–1

2nd period

02:57 Alexis Lafrenière (24) Drew Fortescue (2) · snap 2–2
14:44 Adam Fox (9) PP Vincent Trocheck (37), Mika Zibanejad (43) · wrist 2–3

3rd period

05:51 Alex Tuch (31) Peyton Krebs (27), Tage Thompson (41) · deflected 3–3
07:14 Jason Zucker (24) Ryan McLeod (40) · wrist 4–3
18:45 Zach Benson (12) EN Josh Doan (26), Josh Norris (19) · wrist 5–3

Three stars

Jason Zucker BUF · L #17 · 1 G, 1 A
Ryan McLeod BUF · C #71 · 1 G, 1 A
Alexis Lafrenière NYR · L #13 · 2 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	18:24	BUF	Ryan McLeod	tripping	2	Adam Sykora
2nd	00:23	NYR	Adam Fox	tripping	2	Tage Thompson
2nd	14:14	BUF	Peyton Krebs	hooking	2	Tye Kartye
2nd	16:31	NYR	Vincent Trocheck	slashing	2	Bowen Byram
2nd	17:35	NYR	Vladislav Gavrikov	cross checking	2	Jason Zucker
3rd	10:00	NYR	Will Borgen	holding the stick	2	Beck Malenstyn
3rd	10:44	BUF	Josh Norris	hooking	2	Tye Kartye

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Zach Benson #6	L	2	0	2	+1	3	0	1	0	0.0	12:59
Ryan McLeod #71	C	1	1	2	+1	2	0	1	2	61.5	17:10
Jason Zucker #17	L	1	1	2	+2	4	0	1	0	50.0	18:14
Alex Tuch #89	R	1	0	1	+1	1	0	2	0	62.5	19:05
Josh Norris #9	C	0	1	1	+2	2	0	2	2	22.2	14:46
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	1	1	+1	2	3	1	2	0.0	15:04
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	1	1	+1	2	1	1	0	62.5	22:18
Josh Doan #91	R	0	1	1	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	13:08
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	1	1	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	22:07
Conor Timmins #21	D	0	1	1	+2	1	0	4	0	0.0	16:26
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	1	1	+2	2	0	1	0	0.0	24:30
Tyson Kozak #48	C	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	25.0	10:50
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0.0	10:15
Tanner Pearson #70	L	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0.0	08:52
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	+2	1	0	0	0	0.0	19:24
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	0	0	+1	0	3	1	0	0.0	20:39
Michael Kesselring #8	D	0	0	0	+1	3	1	0	0	0.0	10:37
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	1	0	0.0	20:09

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen #1	W	20	17	3	.850	16/17	0/2	60:00

New York Rangers

Rangers skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Alexis Lafrenière #13	L	2	0	2	-2	2	0	0	0	0.0	15:07
Adam Fox #23	D	1	1	2	-1	1	1	0	2	0.0	23:20
J.T. Miller #8	C	0	1	1	-1	3	0	1	0	61.1	20:51
Mika Zibanejad #93	C	0	1	1	-3	2	1	1	0	44.4	18:44
Vincent Trocheck #16	C	0	1	1	-1	0	3	1	2	46.7	18:48
Drew Fortescue #45	D	0	1	1	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	13:34
Jonny Brodzinski #22	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	100.0	12:03
Noah Laba #42	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	0	75.0	13:33
Adam Sykora #38	L	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	0.0	11:16
Conor Sheary #43	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	12:28
Tye Kartye #24	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	16:07
Will Cuylle #50	L	0	0	0	-2	3	8	1	0	0.0	15:46
Gabe Perreault #94	R	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	0.0	12:09
Jaroslav Chmelar #49	R	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	11:15
Braden Schneider #4	D	0	0	0	-2	3	5	2	0	0.0	22:35
Matthew Robertson #29	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	0	0.0	15:52
Vladislav Gavrikov #44	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	2	0.0	24:41
Will Borgen #17	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	2	0.0	15:24

Rangers goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Igor Shesterkin #31	L	26	22	4	.846	18/22	4/4	58:27

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.