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Tuesday, December 23, 2025 (7:00 PM ET)
Canadian Tire Centre | MSG-B
Buffalo Sabres BUF
3-2
Final/OT
OTT Ottawa Senators
31% xGF Expected Goals Share 69% xGF
BUF was expected to score 1.50 goals OTT was expected to score 3.26 goals
Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 OT 0 1 2 3 Cumulative xG BUF OTT Dots represent goals
Goals & Replays
  • ► Bowen Byram scores at 15:22 in the 1st period 0.06 xG (1-0)
  • ► Ridly Greig scores at 17:13 in the 1st period 0.11 xG (1-1) End of Period 1
  • ► Noah Ostlund scores at 6:11 in the 2nd period 0.07 xG (2-1)
  • ► Tim Stützle scores at 9:27 in the 2nd period 0.13 xG (2-2) End of Period 2
  • No goals this period End of Period 3
  • ► Bowen Byram scores at 0:31 in the OT period 0.11 xG (3-2) End of Game
  • ► Watch the full game recap here
xG by State
Buffalo Sabres
Ottawa Senators
Strength State Time xG G Time xG G
Man-Advantage 2:00 0.29 0 3:15 0.67 1
Even Strength 55:16 1.20 3 55:16 2.59 1
Short-Handed 3:15 0.00 0 2:00 0.00 0
Score State Time xG G Time xG G
Up 1 5:07 0.04 0 0:00 0.00 0
Tied 55:24 1.45 3 55:24 2.76 0
Down 1 0:00 0.00 0 5:07 0.50 2
Shot Map (xG Shots Only) Shot Goal
Forwards
Team Player xG G A Pts Shifts TOI SOG +/- PIM PPG
OTT Drake Batherson (R) 0.93 0 1 1 28 20:42 4 0 0 0
OTT Brady Tkachuk (L) 0.77 0 0 0 28 18:42 6 -2 2 0
OTT David Perron (L) 0.27 0 0 0 23 15:21 2 0 0 0
OTT Dylan Cozens (C) 0.25 0 1 1 25 19:32 2 0 0 0
OTT Fabian Zetterlund (L) 0.25 0 0 0 27 18:03 2 -1 0 0
OTT Tim Stützle (C) 0.23 1 0 1 28 21:41 3 -2 0 1
BUF Alex Tuch (R) 0.22 0 1 1 29 18:01 3 +2 2 0
BUF Jack Quinn (R) 0.18 0 0 0 19 12:21 1 0 0 0
BUF Jordan Greenway (L) 0.14 0 1 1 21 13:36 4 +1 0 0
BUF Zach Benson (L) 0.12 0 0 0 21 12:24 2 0 2 0
OTT Ridly Greig (C) 0.11 1 0 1 23 15:11 1 +1 0 0
BUF Noah Ostlund (C) 0.11 1 0 1 22 15:01 2 +1 0 0
BUF Josh Norris (C) 0.09 0 0 0 24 14:00 0 +1 0 0
BUF Beck Malenstyn (L) 0.06 0 0 0 23 16:11 0 +1 0 0
BUF Tage Thompson (C) 0.05 0 0 0 24 16:47 2 -1 0 0
BUF Josh Doan (R) 0.04 0 0 0 22 13:28 1 -1 0 0
BUF Josh Dunne (C) 0.04 0 1 1 19 13:13 1 +1 0 0
OTT Claude Giroux (R) 0.04 0 1 1 25 16:10 0 +1 0 0
OTT Michael Amadio (R) 0.03 0 0 0 23 16:20 2 +1 0 0
BUF Ryan McLeod (C) 0.01 0 1 1 23 16:36 1 +1 0 0
OTT Stephen Halliday (C) 0.00 0 0 0 17 07:46 0 -1 0 0
OTT Kurtis MacDermid (L) 0.00 0 0 0 5 02:40 0 -1 0 0
OTT Nick Cousins (C) 0.00 0 0 0 16 08:27 0 -1 0 0
BUF Peyton Krebs (C) 0.00 0 0 0 21 14:00 0 -1 0 0
Defensemen
Team Player xG G A Pts Shifts TOI SOG +/- PIM PPG
BUF Bowen Byram (D) 0.16 2 1 3 31 24:18 2 +3 0 0
OTT Thomas Chabot (D) 0.16 0 0 0 28 23:23 1 -2 0 0
BUF Owen Power (D) 0.10 0 0 0 31 25:10 1 0 0 0
OTT Nikolas Matinpalo (D) 0.09 0 0 0 27 15:17 2 0 2 0
BUF Mattias Samuelsson (D) 0.09 0 1 1 32 26:39 2 0 0 0
OTT Jake Sanderson (D) 0.07 0 0 0 29 22:25 1 0 0 0
OTT Jordan Spence (D) 0.05 0 0 0 25 19:33 0 -2 0 0
BUF Michael Kesselring (D) 0.03 0 0 0 18 12:39 2 0 4 0
BUF Rasmus Dahlin (D) 0.03 0 0 0 28 22:48 1 -1 0 0
BUF Zach Metsa (D) 0.00 0 0 0 13 08:38 0 +2 0 0
OTT Nick Jensen (D) 0.00 0 0 0 27 17:47 0 0 0 0
OTT Artem Zub (D) 0.00 0 0 0 26 19:04 0 0 0 0
Goalies
Team Player SV%Ax SV% GSAx GA Saves TOI SA Dec SO
BUF Alex Lyon (G) +2.79% 0.923 1.3 2 24 60:31 26 W 0
OTT Linus Ullmark (G) -4.70% 0.880 -1.5 3 22 60:31 25 O 0