Game

Blue Jackets at Sabres

Sabres 5, Blue Jackets 0 · first star Colten Ellis (0 GA, .000 SV%).

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

Columbus Blue Jackets 0 at Buffalo Sabres 5

Blue Jackets CBJ

0 FINAL 5

Sabres BUF

Thursday, April 9, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · KeyBank Center, Buffalo · TV SN

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Blue Jackets	0	0	0	0	37
Sabres	1	0	4	5	24

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Blue Jackets 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: CBJ 37, BUF 24.

CBJ in red BUF in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Blue Jackets 37 shots on goal (0 goals, 20 missed, 23 blocked) attacking left; Sabres 24 shots on goal (5 goals, 11 missed, 11 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	CBJ SOG	CBJ ATT	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT
1st	10	24	10	1	19
2nd	14	28	4	0	14
3rd	13	28	10	4	13
Total	37	80	24	5	46

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	CBJ SOG	BUF SOG	BUF G
Even strength	24	23	5
Power play	11	1	0
Short-handed	2	0	0
Into an empty net	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Blue Jackets took 63.5% of the shot attempts, and 58.8% of the 97 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 Blue Jackets hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Blue Jackets at Sabres
Period	BUF CF%	BUF FF%
1st	44.2	50.0
2nd	33.3	25.8
3rd	31.7	38.7
Game	36.5	38.0

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

Scoring summary

1st period

13:41 Peyton Krebs (12) Josh Norris (20) · snap 0–1

3rd period

07:19 Josh Doan (24) Unassisted · snap 0–2
13:21 Jack Quinn (20) Logan Stanley (15), Jason Zucker (20) · wrist 0–3
13:46 Josh Doan (25) Zach Benson (28), Josh Norris (21) · wrist 0–4
16:55 Rasmus Dahlin (19) EN Logan Stanley (16), Tyson Kozak (3) · wrist 0–5

Three stars

Colten Ellis BUF · G #92 · 0 GA, .000 SV%
Josh Doan BUF · R #91 · 2 G, 0 A
Peyton Krebs BUF · C #19 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	04:47	CBJ	Adam Fantilli	slashing	2	Jack Quinn
1st	15:42	BUF	Owen Power	tripping	2	Adam Fantilli
2nd	12:45	CBJ	Conor Garland	tripping	2	Jack Quinn
2nd	15:23	BUF	Zach Benson	roughing	2	Conor Garland
3rd	02:31	BUF	Jordan Greenway	delaying game puck over glass	2	—
3rd	14:47	BUF	Tage Thompson	hooking	2	Kent Johnson

Boxscore

Columbus Blue Jackets

Blue Jackets skaters · by points
Player	Pos	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Adam Fantilli #19	C	-2	5	2	2	2	50.0	21:25
Boone Jenner #38	C	-1	3	5	0	0	81.8	12:50
Charlie Coyle #3	C	-4	0	6	0	0	44.4	23:04
Cole Sillinger #4	C	-2	1	1	0	0	100.0	13:37
Isac Lundeström #21	C	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	13:29
Kent Johnson #91	C	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	09:18
Sean Monahan #23	C	-1	1	0	0	0	69.2	15:25
Danton Heinen #43	L	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	11:39
Mason Marchment #17	L	-2	3	2	0	0	0.0	17:56
Miles Wood #11	L	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	10:22
Conor Garland #83	R	-1	4	0	0	2	0.0	12:39
Kirill Marchenko #86	R	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	21:58
Dante Fabbro #15	D	0	0	0	2	0	0.0	16:30
Denton Mateychuk #5	D	-1	4	0	1	0	0.0	18:06
Egor Zamula #6	D	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	10:37
Erik Gudbranson #44	D	-2	0	1	3	0	0.0	15:46
Ivan Provorov #9	D	-4	5	0	0	0	0.0	24:41
Zach Werenski #8	D	-3	5	0	0	0	0.0	28:46

Blue Jackets goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jet Greaves #73	L	23	19	4	.826	18/22	1/1	57:52

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Josh Doan #91	R	2	0	2	+3	4	0	1	0	0.0	14:42
Josh Norris #9	C	0	2	2	+3	1	1	0	0	42.9	14:36
Logan Stanley #64	D	0	2	2	+2	1	0	1	0	0.0	16:19
Peyton Krebs #19	C	1	0	1	+1	1	4	1	0	33.3	14:35
Jack Quinn #22	R	1	0	1	+1	3	0	0	0	0.0	14:48
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	1	0	1	+2	3	1	1	0	0.0	19:47
Tyson Kozak #48	C	0	1	1	+1	2	2	0	0	62.5	09:38
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	14:18
Zach Benson #6	L	0	1	1	+2	1	1	0	2	0.0	15:39
Ryan McLeod #71	C	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	25.0	15:53
Tage Thompson #72	C	0	0	0	+1	2	1	2	2	50.0	16:47
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0.0	11:30
Jordan Greenway #12	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0.0	12:00
Alex Tuch #89	R	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	40.0	21:16
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	0	0	+2	0	0	1	0	0.0	19:32
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	0	0	+2	2	1	5	0	0.0	21:03
Owen Power #25	D	0	0	0	+3	2	0	4	2	0.0	20:11
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	19:26

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Colten Ellis #92	W	37	37	0	1.000	24/24	11/11	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.