National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Tampa Bay 6, Buffalo 5
Thursday, March 6, 2025 7:00 PM
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 TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen G 0 0 0 0 0 57:53
James Reimer G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Bowen Byram D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 20:18
Zach Benson LW 0 2 2 +2 0 2 10:57
Jordan Greenway LW 0 0 0 +1 0 1 12:16
Peyton Krebs C 1 0 1 -1 0 2 13:47
Jiri Kulich C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 18:55
Jack Quinn RW 0 0 0 E 0 0 2:25
Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 +2 0 0 25:12
Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 +1 0 1 16:54
Owen Power D 0 0 0 -3 0 4 17:54
Rasmus Dahlin D 1 1 2 +2 4 5 23:35
Beck Malenstyn LW 0 0 0 -3 0 0 9:43
Ryan McLeod C 0 2 2 E 0 0 21:38
Tage Thompson C 1 0 1 E 2 5 19:19
Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 15:36
JJ Peterka RW 1 1 2 -1 4 2 21:35
Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 E 0 0 13:55
Sam Lafferty C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 12:32
Alex Tuch RW 1 0 1 +1 0 4 21:00
Tampa Bay Lightning
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Jonas Johansson G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Andrei Vasilevskiy G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00
Luke Glendening C 0 0 0 +1 0 1 10:49
Nick Paul LW 1 1 2 +2 0 2 15:42
Brayden Point C 0 1 1 E 0 1 16:45
Oliver Bjorkstrand RW 1 0 1 -1 0 2 13:53
Ryan McDonagh D 0 1 1 E 2 25:41
Zemgus Girgensons LW 0 1 1 +1 0 0 11:02
Yanni Gourde C 0 1 1 -1 0 2 16:47
Brandon Hagel LW 0 2 2 +1 2 1 21:42
Mitchell Chaffee RW 0 0 0 +1 0 1 8:42
Darren Raddysh D 1 1 2 +2 0 3 24:47
Jake Guentzel LW 3 0 3 E 0 3 18:27
Anthony Cirelli C 0 0 0 +1 2 2 17:46
Victor Hedman D 0 0 0 E 0 0 2:57
Emil Lilleberg D 0 0 0 +1 0 2 17:01
Erik Cernak D 0 1 1 +1 2 2 22:10
Nikita Kucherov RW 0 2 2 E 0 1 17:18
J.J. Moser D 0 0 0 -2 0 3 22:53
Gage Goncalves C 0 0 0 -2 2 0 11:07
Goaltending
Buffalo
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen L (23-23-4) 26 20 6 .769 0 57:53
Tampa Bay
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy W (36-19-3) 33 28 5 .848 0 60:00