Game

Sabres at Blackhawks

Sabres 5, Blackhawks 1 · first star Tage Thompson (2 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 5 at Chicago Blackhawks 1

Sabres BUF

5 FINAL 1

Blackhawks CHI

Monday, April 13, 2026 · 8:30 PM ET · United Center, Chicago

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Sabres	1	1	3	5	26
Blackhawks	1	0	0	1	16

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Sabres attack left, Blackhawks 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). Boxscore shots on goal: BUF 26, CHI 16.

BUF in red CHI in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Sabres 26 shots on goal (5 goals, 15 missed, 8 blocked) attacking left; Blackhawks 16 shots on goal (1 goal, 13 missed, 10 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT	CHI SOG	CHI G	CHI ATT
1st	6	1	12	5	1	10
2nd	12	1	25	4	0	14
3rd	8	3	12	7	0	15
Total	26	5	49	16	1	39

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	BUF SOG	BUF G	CHI SOG	CHI G
Even strength	24	5	9	0
Power play	2	0	6	0
Short-handed	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Sabres took 55.7% of the shot attempts, and 64.7% of the 68 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 Blackhawks 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 Blackhawks
Period	CHI CF%	CHI FF%
1st	45.5	50.0
2nd	35.9	31.3
3rd	55.6	50.0
Game	44.3	41.4

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

Scoring summary

1st period

03:58 Ryan Greene (11) SH Ilya Mikheyev (18) · wrist 0–1
19:02 Josh Norris (12) Josh Doan (27) · wrist 1–1

2nd period

13:00 Tage Thompson (39) Alex Tuch (33) · wrist 2–1

3rd period

05:38 Alex Tuch (32) Rasmus Dahlin (54), Logan Stanley (17) · wrist 3–1
11:13 Tage Thompson (40) Rasmus Dahlin (55), Jason Zucker (21) · slap 4–1
18:35 Ryan McLeod (14) Zach Benson (29), Owen Power (19) · wrist 5–1

Three stars

Tage Thompson BUF · C #72 · 2 G, 0 A
Alex Tuch BUF · R #89 · 1 G, 1 A
Rasmus Dahlin BUF · D #26 · 0 G, 2 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	03:44	CHI	Sam Rinzel	high sticking	2	Jason Zucker
1st	07:49	BUF	Rasmus Dahlin	tripping	2	Tyler Bertuzzi
2nd	17:48	BUF	Beck Malenstyn	holding	2	Ryan Greene
3rd	02:02	BUF	Jason Zucker	cross checking	2	Ethan Del Mastro
3rd	02:49	BUF	Bench	too many men on the ice	2	—
3rd	06:21	BUF	Logan Stanley	holding	2	Connor Bedard
3rd	09:04	CHI	Louis Crevier	holding	2	Peyton Krebs

Boxscore

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Tage Thompson #72	C	2	0	2	+2	6	2	0	0	70.0	17:31
Alex Tuch #89	R	1	1	2	+1	3	0	0	0	100.0	21:23
Rasmus Dahlin #26	D	0	2	2	+2	0	0	0	2	0.0	20:59
Josh Norris #9	C	1	0	1	+1	2	1	1	0	69.2	12:35
Ryan McLeod #71	C	1	0	1	+1	1	0	0	0	57.1	16:08
Jason Zucker #17	L	0	1	1	0	2	1	1	2	0.0	14:09
Zach Benson #6	L	0	1	1	+2	4	0	1	0	0.0	14:22
Josh Doan #91	R	0	1	1	+2	1	0	0	0	0.0	13:29
Logan Stanley #64	D	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	2	0.0	15:37
Owen Power #25	D	0	1	1	+2	0	0	1	0	0.0	22:56
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	0	0	+2	1	4	0	0	25.0	14:32
Tyson Kozak #48	C	0	0	0	0	1	5	1	0	33.3	10:49
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	2	0.0	11:32
Jordan Greenway #12	L	0	0	0	0	1	5	1	0	0.0	12:59
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	14:02
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	0	0	+2	1	0	1	0	0.0	21:11
Conor Timmins #21	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	16:51
Mattias Samuelsson #23	D	0	0	0	+2	0	0	1	0	0.0	18:59

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen #1	W	16	15	1	.938	9/9	6/6	60:00

Chicago Blackhawks

Blackhawks skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Ryan Greene #20	C	1	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	20.0	17:07
Ilya Mikheyev #95	R	0	1	1	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	15:39
Anton Frondell #16	C	0	0	0	-2	5	0	0	0	23.1	19:06
Connor Bedard #98	C	0	0	0	-3	0	1	1	0	50.0	22:31
Dominic Toninato #25	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	57.1	09:32
Frank Nazar #91	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	66.7	17:35
Ryan Donato #8	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	50.0	13:49
Teuvo Teravainen #86	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	50.0	17:45
Andre Burakovsky #28	L	0	0	0	-2	1	0	0	0	0.0	13:17
Landon Slaggert #84	L	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	0.0	11:03
Nick Lardis #76	L	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	0.0	15:18
Tyler Bertuzzi #59	L	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	18:44
Alex Vlasic #72	D	0	0	0	-2	0	0	1	0	0.0	19:43
Ethan Del Mastro #38	D	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0.0	16:13
Kevin Korchinski #14	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	13:43
Louis Crevier #46	D	0	0	0	-1	1	2	1	2	0.0	18:41
Sam Rinzel #6	D	0	0	0	-2	1	0	1	2	0.0	16:16
Wyatt Kaiser #44	D	0	0	0	-3	0	0	1	0	0.0	20:17

Blackhawks goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Spencer Knight #30	L	26	21	5	.808	19/24	2/2	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.