National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Tampa Bay 6, Buffalo 5
When: 7:00 PM ET, Thursday, March 6, 2025
Where: Amalie Arena, Tampa, Florida
Referees: Dan O'Rourke, Garrett Rank
Linesmen: Ryan Jackson, Bryan Pancich
Attendance: 19092
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Buffalo 3205
Tampa Bay 2316
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
5:01 - Lightning Nick Paul (EV) Assists: Ryan McDonagh , Brandon Hagel
5:17 - Sabres Rasmus Dahlin (EV) Assists: Ryan McLeod , Zach Benson
5:53 - Lightning Darren Raddysh (EV) Assists: Zemgus Girgensons
8:20 - Sabres Alex Tuch (EV) Unassisted
17:09 - Sabres Peyton Krebs (EV) Assists: Ryan McLeod , Zach Benson
Penalties
8:23 - Sabres Tage Thompson (2) High sticking
2nd Period
Scoring
0:58 - Lightning Jake Guentzel (EV) Assists: Erik Cernak , Nikita Kucherov
9:35 - Sabres Tage Thompson (PP) Assists: Rasmus Dahlin , JJ Peterka
12:40 - Sabres JJ Peterka (EV) Unassisted
17:43 - Lightning Jake Guentzel (EV) Assists: Brayden Point , Nick Paul
18:46 - Lightning Jake Guentzel (PP) Assists: Brandon Hagel , Darren Raddysh
Penalties
1:57 - Lightning Erik Cernak (2) Roughing
 9:15 - Lightning Gage Goncalves (2) Tripping
 18:10 - Lightning Anthony Cirelli (2) Roughing
 18:10 - Sabres Rasmus Dahlin (2) Roughing
 18:10 - Sabres Rasmus Dahlin (2) Roughing
3rd Period
Scoring
1:40 - Lightning Oliver Bjorkstrand (EV) Assists: Yanni Gourde , Nikita Kucherov
Penalties
10:25 - Sabres JJ Peterka (2) Holding
 10:25 - Sabres JJ Peterka (2) Holding
 18:06 - Lightning Brandon Hagel (2) Tripping
 19:43 - Lightning Ryan McDonagh (2) High sticking
Buffalo Sabres
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen G 0 0 0 0 0 57:53 50:57 2:20 4:36 0 0 - - - - -
James Reimer G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Bowen Byram D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 30 20:18 18:10 1:02 1:06 0 0 1 - - - -
Zach Benson LW 0 2 2 +2 0 2 15 10:57 9:11 1:05 0:41 0 0 1 - - - -
Jordan Greenway LW 0 0 0 +1 0 1 20 12:16 10:23 0:00 1:53 0 0 1 1 0 1 0
Peyton Krebs C 1 0 1 -1 0 2 20 13:47 13:42 0:05 0:00 0 0 2 - 3 1 75
Jiri Kulich C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 26 18:55 15:46 3:09 0:00 0 0 1 - 2 10 17
Jack Quinn RW 0 0 0 E 0 0 4 2:25 2:25 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 +2 0 0 31 25:12 22:01 0:00 3:11 0 0 3 3 - - -
Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 +1 0 1 26 16:54 15:40 1:01 0:13 0 0 1 - 10 9 53
Owen Power D 0 0 0 -3 0 4 25 17:54 17:03 0:51 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Rasmus Dahlin D 1 1 2 +2 4 5 29 23:35 19:53 3:23 0:19 0 0 1 1 - - -
Beck Malenstyn LW 0 0 0 -3 0 0 16 9:43 8:17 0:00 1:26 0 0 1 - - - -
Ryan McLeod C 0 2 2 E 0 0 26 21:38 15:53 2:50 2:55 0 0 - - 10 10 50
Tage Thompson C 1 0 1 E 2 5 25 19:19 16:11 3:08 0:00 1 0 2 2 3 5 38
Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 21 15:36 12:07 0:00 3:29 0 0 2 - - - -
JJ Peterka RW 1 1 2 -1 4 2 26 21:35 18:23 3:12 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 E 0 0 21 13:55 12:48 0:00 1:07 0 0 - 2 - - -
Sam Lafferty C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 19 12:32 12:26 0:06 0:00 0 0 4 1 1 0 100
Alex Tuch RW 1 0 1 +1 0 4 29 21:00 15:44 3:12 2:04 0 0 3 - 1 0 100
Tampa Bay Lightning
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Jonas Johansson G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Andrei Vasilevskiy G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00 51:10 4:36 4:14 0 0 - - - - -
Luke Glendening C 0 0 0 +1 0 1 18 10:49 8:58 0:00 1:51 0 0 1 1 7 8 47
Nick Paul LW 1 1 2 +2 0 2 21 15:42 14:31 1:11 0:00 0 0 - - 2 1 67
Brayden Point C 0 1 1 E 0 1 23 16:45 13:25 3:20 0:00 0 0 - 1 8 5 62
Oliver Bjorkstrand RW 1 0 1 -1 0 2 20 13:53 12:02 1:51 0:00 0 0 3 - 0 2 0
Ryan McDonagh D 0 1 1 E 2 31 25:41 21:02 1:16 3:23 0 0 - - - - -
Zemgus Girgensons LW 0 1 1 +1 0 0 17 11:02 9:51 0:00 1:11 0 0 2 - - - -
Yanni Gourde C 0 1 1 -1 0 2 22 16:47 15:34 1:13 0:00 0 0 4 - 4 4 50
Brandon Hagel LW 0 2 2 +1 2 1 26 21:42 16:43 3:20 1:39 0 0 - 2 - - -
Mitchell Chaffee RW 0 0 0 +1 0 1 13 8:42 8:42 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Darren Raddysh D 1 1 2 +2 0 3 27 24:47 20:52 3:21 0:34 0 0 1 1 - - -
Jake Guentzel LW 3 0 3 E 0 3 24 18:27 14:02 3:25 1:00 1 0 - - 3 3 50
Anthony Cirelli C 0 0 0 +1 2 2 23 17:46 14:40 0:37 2:29 0 0 1 1 12 7 63
Victor Hedman D 0 0 0 E 0 0 3 2:57 2:57 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Emil Lilleberg D 0 0 0 +1 0 2 24 17:01 16:25 0:00 0:36 0 0 - 2 - - -
Erik Cernak D 0 1 1 +1 2 2 32 22:10 19:56 0:00 2:14 0 0 3 3 - - -
Nikita Kucherov RW 0 2 2 E 0 1 21 17:18 13:52 3:26 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
J.J. Moser D 0 0 0 -2 0 3 30 22:53 21:11 0:00 1:42 0 0 1 1 - - -
Gage Goncalves C 0 0 0 -2 2 0 15 11:07 11:07 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Goaltending
Buffalo
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen L (20-19-4) 26 20 6 .769 0 57:53
Tampa Bay
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy W (30-16-3) 33 28 5 .848 0 60:00