Game

Stars at Sabres

Stars 4, Sabres 3 in a shootout · first star Wyatt Johnston (0 G, 0 A).

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

Dallas Stars 4 at Buffalo Sabres 3

Stars DAL

4 FINAL/SO 3

Sabres BUF

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · KeyBank Center, Buffalo · TV TNT · truTV · HBO MAX

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	1OT	SO	T	SOG
Stars	1	2	0	0	1	4	28
Sabres	1	2	0	0	0	3	24

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Stars attack left, Sabres 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. Boxscore shots on goal: DAL 28, BUF 24.

DAL in red BUF in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Stars 28 shots on goal (3 goals, 9 missed, 14 blocked) attacking left; Sabres 24 shots on goal (3 goals, 19 missed, 16 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	DAL SOG	DAL G	DAL ATT	BUF SOG	BUF G	BUF ATT
1st	5	1	9	10	1	25
2nd	11	2	18	7	2	17
3rd	12	0	22	5	0	11
OT	0	0	2	2	0	6
Total	28	3	51	24	3	59

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	DAL SOG	DAL G	BUF SOG	BUF G
Even strength	27	2	19	2
Power play	1	1	4	0
Short-handed	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Sabres took 53.6% of the shot attempts, and 48.4% of the 93 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 Stars hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Stars at Sabres
Period	BUF CF%	BUF FF%
1st	73.5	70.8
2nd	48.6	44.4
3rd	33.3	37.5
OT	75.0	100.0
Game	53.6	53.8

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

Scoring summary

1st period

02:19 Mavrik Bourque (20) Esa Lindell (26), Ilya Lyubushkin (8) · snap 1–0
12:48 Josh Norris (13) Zach Benson (30), Owen Power (20) · wrist 1–1

2nd period

03:32 Zach Benson (13) SH Tyson Kozak (4) · snap 1–2
04:24 Esa Lindell (6) PP Jamie Benn (21), Justin Hryckowian (16) · wrist 2–2
11:09 Alex Tuch (33) Tanner Pearson (8), Owen Power (21) · snap 2–3
16:00 Justin Hryckowian (14) Unassisted · wrist 3–3

Shootout

00:00 Wyatt Johnston Unassisted · wrist 4–3

Three stars

Wyatt Johnston DAL · C #53 · 0 G, 0 A
Zach Benson BUF · L #6 · 1 G, 1 A
Josh Norris BUF · C #9 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	09:08	DAL	Radek Faksa	high sticking	2	Josh Norris
1st	13:33	DAL	Ilya Lyubushkin	holding	2	Jack Quinn
2nd	02:24	BUF	Jordan Greenway	interference	2	Ilya Lyubushkin
2nd	16:32	BUF	Luke Schenn	holding	2	Radek Faksa
3rd	13:09	BUF	Conor Timmins	delaying game puck over glass	2	—
Overtime	02:36	DAL	Mavrik Bourque	hooking	2	Alex Tuch

Boxscore

Dallas Stars

Stars skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Justin Hryckowian #49	C	1	1	2	+1	2	2	0	0	60.0	17:18
Esa Lindell #23	D	1	1	2	0	3	1	2	0	0.0	22:14
Mavrik Bourque #22	C	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	66.7	17:06
Jamie Benn #14	L	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	13:46
Ilya Lyubushkin #46	D	0	1	1	0	1	1	2	2	0.0	15:39
Matt Duchene #95	C	0	0	0	-2	0	1	0	0	57.1	17:26
Oskar Bäck #10	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	13:36
Radek Faksa #12	C	0	0	0	0	3	3	2	2	35.7	13:09
Sam Steel #18	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	33.3	15:43
Wyatt Johnston #53	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	33.3	18:11
Adam Erne #73	L	0	0	0	0	2	3	1	0	0.0	13:23
Jason Robertson #21	L	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	17:26
Michael Bunting #58	L	0	0	0	+1	5	1	0	0	0.0	12:36
Mikko Rantanen #96	R	0	0	0	-2	1	1	0	0	0.0	18:33
Lian Bichsel #6	D	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0.0	20:37
Nils Lundkvist #5	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	20:26
Thomas Harley #55	D	0	0	0	-1	4	0	3	0	0.0	22:45
Tyler Myers #57	D	0	0	0	0	3	1	3	0	0.0	21:30

Stars goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jake Oettinger #29	W	24	21	3	.875	17/19	4/4	65:00

Buffalo Sabres

Sabres skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Zach Benson #6	L	1	1	2	+2	3	0	1	0	0.0	24:22
Owen Power #25	D	0	2	2	+1	1	0	2	0	0.0	22:17
Josh Norris #9	C	1	0	1	+1	2	0	3	0	50.0	16:55
Alex Tuch #89	R	1	0	1	+1	1	0	2	0	40.0	20:36
Tyson Kozak #48	C	0	1	1	0	0	4	1	0	45.5	13:34
Tanner Pearson #70	L	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	0	0.0	17:04
Josh Dunne #44	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	0	63.6	11:52
Peyton Krebs #19	C	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	63.6	19:00
Beck Malenstyn #29	L	0	0	0	-1	0	6	0	0	0.0	14:59
Jordan Greenway #12	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	16:03
Jack Quinn #22	R	0	0	0	-1	5	1	0	0	0.0	19:29
Josh Doan #91	R	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	15:57
Bowen Byram #4	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	19:35
Conor Timmins #21	D	0	0	0	0	4	1	2	2	0.0	16:58
Logan Stanley #64	D	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0.0	20:16
Luke Schenn #5	D	0	0	0	+1	1	3	0	2	0.0	12:41
Michael Kesselring #8	D	0	0	0	+2	0	1	0	0	0.0	15:03
Zach Metsa #73	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	0	0.0	14:43

Sabres goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Colten Ellis #92	O	28	25	3	.893	25/27	0/1	65:00

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.