🏔️ Away Avalanche 2-0-1
3–1
Final
⚔️ Home Sabres 0-2-0
Goals 1st2nd3rdF
🏔️ COL 1203
⚔️ BUF 1001

Avalanche at Sabres

Avalanche beat Sabres 3–1 at KeyBank Center on October 13, 2025.

🗓 📍 KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🏒 2025-26 🔁 Avalanche lead the season series 1–0
⚔️ Head-to-head

⭐ Three stars

Best games by the box score
1st star 🏔️ COL
Nathan MacKinnon
2 G
5 shots · 21:47 TOI
2nd star 🏔️ COL
Cale Makar
1 G, 1 A
4 shots · 25:22 TOI
3rd star 🏔️ COL
Martin Necas
2 A
3 shots · 18:27 TOI

🚨 Scoring

4 goals · in order
1st period
🏔️ Nathan MacKinnon Go-ahead 1st · 03:14
Assists: Martin Necas, Brent Burns · beat Alex Lyon
1–0
⚔️ Tage Thompson Tying 1st · 16:32
Assists: Alex Tuch, Rasmus Dahlin · beat Scott Wedgewood
1–1
2nd period
🏔️ Cale Makar Go-ahead 2nd · 04:32
Assists: Valeri Nichushkin · beat Alex Lyon
2–1
🏔️ Nathan MacKinnon 2nd · 11:59
Assists: Martin Necas, Cale Makar · beat Alex Lyon
3–1

🧩 Lines & pairings

Estimated from ice time
🏔️Avalanche
L1 Lehkonen · MacKinnon · Necas 18:27
L2 Nelson · Drury · Nichushkin 15:46
L3 Landeskog · Olofsson · Colton 13:31
L4 Kiviranta · Kelly · Brindley 11:36
D1 Makar · Toews 24:28
D2 Manson · Burns 18:36
D3 Malinski · Solovyov 13:42
⚔️Sabres
L1 Thompson · Tuch · Danforth 18:28
L2 Kulich · McLeod · Doan 16:09
L3 Zucker · Malenstyn · Quinn 14:49
L4 Krebs · Kozak · Dunne 8:35
D1 Dahlin · Byram 26:39
D2 Power · Timmins 20:44
D3 Bryson · Johnson 11:11

📊 Team stats

Away left · home right
🏔️COL BUF⚔️
37 Shots on goal 28
20 Hits 11
21 Blocked shots 11
5 Takeaways 7
18 Giveaways 20
8 Penalty minutes 10
COL shooting 8.1% (3/37) BUF shooting 3.6% (1/28)

🥅 Goaltending

Saves, shots faced and save percentage
🏔️Avalanche
Scott Wedgewood
27/28
.964 SV% · 1 GA · 59:57 TOI
⚔️Sabres
Alex Lyon
34/37
.919 SV% · 3 GA · 58:20 TOI

🗺 Where the goals came from

4 of 4 goals located
Nathan MacKinnon · 1st 03:14 · 1–0 Tage Thompson · 1st 16:32 · 1–1 Cale Makar · 2nd 04:32 · 2–1 Nathan MacKinnon · 2nd 11:59 · 3–1
COL BUF
The net is on the right for both teams. Hover a dot for the goal.

🔮 Period by period

AI
After 1st — 1–1
Avalanche
Avalanche — tied after 1st: 1-0 (100% win rate, 1 game)
Sabres
Sabres: no games found in this situation this year.
After 2nd — 3–1
Avalanche
Avalanche: no games found in this situation this year.
Sabres
Sabres — trailing by 2 goals after 2nd: 0-1 (0% win rate, 1 game)

⚔️ Last meetings

All →
Avalanche lead the season series 1–0
Jan 22025 ⚔️BUF @ 🏔️COL 5–6 OT Dec 32024 🏔️COL @ ⚔️BUF 5–4 Dec 132023 ⚔️BUF @ 🏔️COL 1–5 Oct 292023 🏔️COL @ ⚔️BUF 0–4 Dec 152022 ⚔️BUF @ 🏔️COL 4–2
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❓ COL vs BUF, answered

Who won Avalanche vs Sabres on October 13, 2025?

Avalanche won 3–1. The final score was Avalanche 3, Sabres 1.

Who scored for Avalanche?

Nathan MacKinnon (2), Cale Makar.

Who scored for Sabres?

Tage Thompson.

How did the Avalanche goalie play?

Scott Wedgewood made 27 saves on 28 shots (.964 save percentage).

How did the Sabres goalie play?

Alex Lyon made 34 saves on 37 shots (.919 save percentage).

Where is Avalanche vs Sabres played?

At KeyBank Center in Buffalo, the Sabres home rink.

What is the Avalanche vs Sabres season series?

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

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🧭 Around this game

Before and after, for both teams
🏔️ Avalanche
BeforeOct 11 ⭐DAL @ 🏔️COL 5–4 AfterOct 16 🏔️COL @ 🧥CBJ 4–1
⚔️ Sabres
BeforeOct 11 ⚔️BUF @ 🐻BOS 1–3 AfterOct 15 🏛️OTT @ ⚔️BUF 4–8
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