🦈 Away Sharks 8-12-4
5–0
Final
⚔️ Home Sabres 16-9-1
Goals 1st2nd3rdF
🦈 SJS 4105
⚔️ BUF 0000

Sharks at Sabres

Sharks beat Sabres 5–0 at KeyBank Center on December 2, 2005.

🗓 📍 KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🏒 2005-06 🔁 Sharks lead the season series 1–0
⚔️ Head-to-head

⭐ Three stars

Best games by the box score
1st star 🦈 SJS
Patrick Marleau
3 A
1 shots · 19:54 TOI
2nd star 🦈 SJS
Jonathan Cheechoo
2 G
4 shots · 22:24 TOI
3rd star 🦈 SJS
Grant Stevenson
1 G, 1 A
2 shots · 14:04 TOI

🚨 Scoring

5 goals · in order
1st period
🦈 Grant Stevenson Go-ahead 1st · 04:16
Assists: Patrick Marleau, Milan Michalek · beat Mika Noronen
1–0
🦈 Jonathan Cheechoo 1st · 05:10
Assists: Joe Thornton, Christian Ehrhoff · beat Mika Noronen
2–0
🦈 Milan Michalek 1st · 06:18
Assists: Grant Stevenson, Patrick Marleau · beat Mika Noronen
3–0
🦈 Niko Dimitrakos 1st · 11:26
Assists: Josh Langfeld, Alyn McCauley · beat Mika Noronen
4–0
2nd period
🦈 Jonathan Cheechoo PP 2nd · 02:09
Assists: Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau · beat Martin Biron
5–0

🧩 Lines & pairings

Estimated from ice time
🦈Sharks
L1 Marleau · Thornton · Cheechoo 19:54
L2 Thornton · McCauley · Stevenson 14:22
L3 Michalek · Goc · Langfeld 12:59
L4 Smith · Ekman · Dimitrakos 10:04
D1 McLaren · Preissing 22:28
D2 Hannan · Davison 19:19
D3 Ehrhoff · Murray 14:48
⚔️Sabres
L1 Connolly · Hecht · Roy 18:00
L2 Drury · Pominville · Grier 16:06
L3 Vanek · Kotalik · Afinogenov 14:06
L4 Gaustad · Mair · Thorburn 10:32
D1 Campbell · Numminen 20:14
D2 Tallinder · Lydman 18:02
D3 McKee · Fitzpatrick 17:14

📊 Team stats

Away left · home right
🦈SJS BUF⚔️
26 Shots on goal 27
1/6 Power play (goals / chances) 0/5
7 Hits 16
7 Blocked shots 16
2 Takeaways 4
6 Giveaways 12
12 Penalty minutes 14
SJS shooting 19.2% (5/26) BUF shooting 0.0% (0/27)

🥅 Goaltending

Saves, shots faced and save percentage
🦈Sharks
Evgeni Nabokov Shutout
20/20
1.000 SV% · 0 GA · 48:37 TOI
Nolan Schaefer Shutout
7/7
1.000 SV% · 0 GA · 11:20 TOI
⚔️Sabres
Martin Biron
14/15
.933 SV% · 1 GA · 48:33 TOI
Mika Noronen
7/11
.636 SV% · 4 GA · 11:26 TOI

🔮 Period by period

AI
After 1st — 4–0
Sharks
Sharks: no games found in this situation this year.
Sabres
Sabres — trailing by 4 goals after 1st: 0-1 (0% win rate, 1 game)
After 2nd — 5–0
Sharks
Sharks: no games found in this situation this year.
Sabres
Sabres — trailing by 5 goals after 2nd: 0-1 (0% win rate, 1 game)

⚔️ Last meetings

All →
Sharks lead the season series 1–0
Feb 102004 🦈SJS @ ⚔️BUF 1–2 Jan 162003 ⚔️BUF @ 🦈SJS 2–2 OT Oct 232001 🦈SJS @ ⚔️BUF 1–4 Jan 92001 ⚔️BUF @ 🦈SJS 1–2 Dec 232000 🦈SJS @ ⚔️BUF 2–5
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Who won Sharks vs Sabres on December 2, 2005?

Sharks won 5–0. The final score was Sharks 5, Sabres 0.

Who scored for Sharks?

Jonathan Cheechoo (2), Grant Stevenson, Milan Michalek, Niko Dimitrakos.

How did the Sharks goalie play?

Evgeni Nabokov made 20 saves on 20 shots (1.000 save percentage) for a shutout.

How did the Sabres goalie play?

Martin Biron made 14 saves on 15 shots (.933 save percentage).

Where is Sharks vs Sabres played?

At KeyBank Center in Buffalo, the Sabres home rink.

What is the Sharks vs Sabres season series?

Sharks lead the season series 1–0 after 1 game.

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🧭 Around this game

Before and after, for both teams
🦈 Sharks
BeforeNov 30 🦈SJS @ ⭐DAL 1–4 AfterDec 3 🦈SJS @ 🍁TOR 5–4
⚔️ Sabres
BeforeDec 1 ⚔️BUF @ 🇨🇦MTL 3–2 AfterDec 4 ⚔️BUF @ 🏔️COL 6–4
Also on December 2
👑LAK 1–5 🏛️OTT 🪶CHI 2–3 ⚡TBL 🌪️CAR 4–5 ⭐DAL
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