Buffalo Sabres 6, Tampa Bay Lightning 2 - NHL Box Score for February 28th 2026

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Game Summary

End of 3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	Score
Tampa Bay LightningLightning	0	1	1	2
Buffalo SabresSabres	4	1	1	6

Scoring Summary

1^st Period
05:25	Buffalo	Rasmus Dahlin (Owen Power)
06:15	Buffalo	Josh Norris (Josh Doan, Zach Metsa)
08:18	Buffalo	Josh Norris (Bowen Byram, Zach Benson)
15:06	Buffalo	Tage Thompson (Rasmus Dahlin, Peyton Krebs)

2^nd Period
01:54	Buffalo	Zach Metsa (Unassisted)
16:03	Tampa Bay	Dominic James (Victor Hedman, Oliver Bjorkstrand)

3^rd Period
03:43	Buffalo	Alex Tuch (Rasmus Dahlin, Jack Quinn)
05:27	Tampa Bay	Victor Hedman (Darren Raddysh)

Penalty Summary

1^st Period
None

2^nd Period
05:47	Tampa Bay	Brayden Point: Slashing - 2 minutes
05:47	Buffalo	Rasmus Dahlin: Cross checking - 2 minutes
12:10	Tampa Bay	Jake Guentzel: Delay of game - 2 minutes
16:03	Buffalo	Mattias Samuelsson: Roughing - 2 minutes
16:03	Tampa Bay	Victor Hedman: Roughing - 2 minutes

3^rd Period
01:28	Tampa Bay	Charle-Edouard D'Astous: Roughing - 2 minutes
01:28	Buffalo	Michael Kesselring: Cross checking - 2 minutes
01:28	Buffalo	Michael Kesselring: Cross checking - 2 minutes
01:28	Buffalo	Alex Tuch: Roughing - 2 minutes
02:02	Tampa Bay	Jake Guentzel: Abusive language - 2 minutes
06:23	Tampa Bay	Darren Raddysh: Cross checking - 2 minutes
12:48	Tampa Bay	Anthony Cirelli: Interference - 2 minutes
17:12	Buffalo	Michael Kesselring: Cross checking - 2 minutes

Shots on Goal

Team	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	Total
Tampa Bay	8	12	12	32
Buffalo	10	20	5	35

Goalie Stats

Team	Goalie	SV	SA	SV %	TOI
Tampa Bay	Jonas Johansson	23	24	0.958	00:00
Buffalo	Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen	36	38	0.947	00:00
Tampa Bay	Andrei Vasilevskiy	9	14	0.643	00:00

Tampa Bay Lightning

Players	Pos	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	SOG	EV	PP	SH	TOI
Victor Hedman	D	1	1	2	+0	2	2	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Dominic James	LW	1	0	1	+0	0	1	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Oliver Bjorkstrand	RW	0	1	1	-1	0	4	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Darren Raddysh	D	0	1	1	+0	2	3	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Erik Cernak	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Anthony Cirelli	C	0	0	0	-2	2	0	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Charle-Edouard D'Astous	D	0	0	0	-2	2	0	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Zemgus Girgensons	LW	0	0	0	-2	0	3	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Gage Goncalves	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Yanni Gourde	C	0	0	0	-2	0	1	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Jake Guentzel	LW	0	0	0	-1	4	1	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Brandon Hagel	LW	0	0	0	-2	0	6	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Pontus Holmberg	RW	0	0	0	+0	0	1	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Nikita Kucherov	RW	0	0	0	-2	0	4	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Emil Lilleberg	D	0	0	0	-2	0	3	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Ryan McDonagh	D	0	0	0	-4	0	0	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
J.J. Moser	D	0	0	0	-1	0	2	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Brayden Point	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00

Buffalo Sabres

Players	Pos	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	SOG	EV	PP	SH	TOI
Rasmus Dahlin	D	1	2	3	+3	2	2	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Josh Norris	C	2	0	2	+2	0	2	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Zach Metsa	D	1	1	2	+2	0	3	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Tage Thompson	C	1	0	1	+0	0	6	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Alex Tuch	RW	1	0	1	+1	2	5	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Zach Benson	LW	0	1	1	+1	0	0	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Bowen Byram	D	0	1	1	+3	0	5	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Josh Doan	RW	0	1	1	+2	0	2	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Peyton Krebs	C	0	1	1	+0	0	0	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Owen Power	D	0	1	1	+2	0	4	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Jack Quinn	RW	0	1	1	+3	0	2	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Michael Kesselring	D	0	0	0	+0	4	0	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Tyson Kozak	C	0	0	0	+1	0	0	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Beck Malenstyn	LW	0	0	0	+0	0	0	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Ryan McLeod	C	0	0	0	+2	0	2	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Noah Ostlund	C	0	0	0	+1	0	0	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Mattias Samuelsson	D	0	0	0	+0	2	1	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00
Jason Zucker	LW	0	0	0	+2	0	1	00:00	00:00	00:00	00:00

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