Tampa Bay Lightning vs Buffalo Sabres (Apr 05, 2025)

Team Context

Home context · Buffalo Sabres

Best Scorer

Alex Tuch with 5

Most Assists

JJ Peterka with 5

Last Five W L OT/SO

Away context · Tampa Bay Lightning

Best Scorer

Brayden Point with 4

Most Assists

Nikita Kucherov with 10

Last Five W L OT/SO

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Oct 17, 2023

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2–3 (OT)

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Stats

⚔️ BUF

Goals

Shots

PPG

Hits

PIM

Lightning Goals

Brayden Point (2nd • 01:35)

Assisted by Nikita Kucherov

Gage Goncalves (2nd • 13:01)

Assisted by Oliver Bjorkstrand , Yanni Gourde

Sabres Goals

Tage Thompson (2nd • 04:47)

Assisted by Zach Benson

Jason Zucker PP (3rd • 05:07)

Assisted by Alex Tuch , Rasmus Dahlin

Jack Quinn (SO • 00:00)

Unassisted

After 1st — 0–0

Lightning

Lightning — tied after 1st: 44-26-5 (59% win rate, 75 games)

Sabres

Sabres — tied after 1st: 32-36-6 (43% win rate, 74 games)

After 2nd — 2–1

Lightning

Lightning: no games found in this situation this year.

Sabres

Sabres: no games found in this situation this year.

Lines & Pairings · est. by ice time

TBL

L1: Guentzel · Point · Kucherov · 23:25

L2: Hagel · Paul · Cirelli · 19:27

L3: Gourde · Goncalves · Bjorkstrand · 13:50

L4: Girgensons · Glendening · 9:34

D1: Hedman · McDonagh · 25:09

D2: Cernak · Moser · 20:12

D3: Raddysh · Martinsen Lilleberg · 11:00

D4: Perbix · 6:36

BUF

L1: Thompson · Tuch · Peterka · 19:54

L2: Benson · McLeod · Kulich · 18:04

L3: Zucker · Krebs · Quinn · 15:47

L4: Malenstyn · Lafferty · Ostlund · 9:01

D1: Dahlin · Samuelsson · 22:52

D2: Byram · Clifton · 20:16

D3: Power · Bernard-Docker · 17:11