National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Tampa Bay 6, Buffalo 4
When: 7:00 PM ET, Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Where: KeyBank Center, Buffalo, New York
Referees: Jake Brenk, Kendrick Nicholson
Linesmen: Derek Amell, David Brisebois
Attendance: 18465
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Tampa Bay 0336
Buffalo 1304
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
19:03 - Sabres Conor Sheary (EV) Assists: Curtis Lazar
Penalties
4:03 - Lightning Steven Stamkos (2) Tripping
 10:29 - Sabres Henri Jokiharju (2) Slashing
2nd Period
Scoring
2:12 - Sabres Marcus Johansson (EV) Assists: Conor Sheary , Marco Scandella
7:00 - Lightning Ondrej Palat (PP) Assists: Tyler Johnson , Mikhail Sergachev
8:12 - Sabres Jimmy Vesey (EV) Assists: Marcus Johansson , Conor Sheary
9:56 - Sabres Jack Eichel (SH) Unassisted
13:57 - Lightning Alex Killorn (PP) Assists: Brayden Point , Nikita Kucherov
16:55 - Lightning Tyler Johnson (EV) Assists: Ondrej Palat , Ryan McDonagh
Penalties
0:08 - Lightning Luke Schenn (2) Roughing
 0:08 - Sabres Dalton Smith (2) Roughing
 3:21 - Sabres Kyle Okposo (2) Slashing
 5:08 - Sabres Henri Jokiharju (2) Tripping
 8:34 - Sabres Jake McCabe (2) Instigating
 8:34 - Sabres Jake McCabe (5) Fighting
 8:34 - Lightning Mikhail Sergachev (5) Fighting
 8:34 - Sabres Jake McCabe (10) Instigator - Misconduct
 11:06 - Lightning Tyler Johnson (2) Interference
 12:59 - Sabres Marcus Johansson (2) Hooking
3rd Period
Scoring
6:20 - Lightning Kevin Shattenkirk (EV) Assists: Tyler Johnson , Anthony Cirelli
8:08 - Lightning Alex Killorn (EV) Assists: Pat Maroon , Cedric Paquette
19:57 - Lightning Anthony Cirelli (EV) (EN) Assists: Alex Killorn , Steven Stamkos
Penalties
12:07 - Lightning Mikhail Sergachev (2) Delay of game
 15:42 - Lightning Nikita Kucherov (2) Cross checking
Tampa Bay Lightning
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Curtis McElhinney 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 43:37 8:30 7:53 0 0 - - - - -
Luke Schenn D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 20 11:51 10:07 0:00 1:44 0 0 2 - - - -
Tyler Johnson C 1 2 3 E 2 1 19 12:17 9:45 2:32 0:00 0 0 - - 4 1 80
Cedric Paquette C 0 1 1 +1 0 1 22 12:40 9:17 0:01 3:22 0 0 2 - 3 7 30
Pat Maroon LW 0 1 1 -1 0 1 18 11:09 8:48 2:21 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Alex Killorn LW 2 1 3 +2 0 4 27 20:16 11:12 5:45 3:19 1 0 1 2 - - -
Ondrej Palat LW 1 1 2 +1 0 3 19 13:32 11:18 2:14 0:00 1 0 1 1 - - -
Brayden Point C 0 1 1 -1 0 2 19 18:44 13:00 5:44 0:00 0 0 - - 2 1 67
Kevin Shattenkirk D 1 0 1 -1 0 1 22 17:24 14:39 2:38 0:07 0 0 - - - - -
Carter Verhaeghe LW 0 0 0 -1 0 0 12 7:40 7:40 0:00 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Ryan McDonagh D 0 1 1 +1 0 0 24 23:24 18:10 0:01 5:13 0 0 - 1 - - -
Yanni Gourde C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 19 13:34 8:34 0:42 4:18 0 0 1 - - - -
Mitchell Stephens C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 14 7:42 7:32 0:01 0:09 0 0 1 - 2 5 29
Anthony Cirelli C 1 1 2 +2 0 2 26 18:42 13:51 0:20 4:31 0 0 1 - 6 5 55
Victor Hedman D 0 0 0 +1 0 0 29 25:23 15:54 6:00 3:29 0 0 1 - - - -
Erik Cernak D 0 0 0 E 0 3 25 18:25 14:00 0:08 4:17 0 0 4 1 - - -
Nikita Kucherov RW 0 1 1 E 2 3 19 19:25 13:17 6:08 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Steven Stamkos C 0 1 1 -1 2 4 23 20:53 14:38 6:08 0:07 0 0 - 1 6 9 40
Mikhail Sergachev D 0 1 1 E 7 1 23 16:59 14:16 1:47 0:56 0 0 2 3 - - -
Buffalo Sabres
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Linus Ullmark G 0 0 0 0 0 57:29 41:20 7:39 8:30 0 0 - - - - -
Carter Hutton G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Marco Scandella D 0 1 1 +2 0 1 23 17:21 12:24 0:00 4:57 0 0 1 - - - -
Jack Eichel C 1 0 1 -2 0 2 24 25:13 17:44 6:46 0:43 0 1 2 3 9 10 47
Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 +2 4 0 22 13:53 12:25 0:00 1:28 0 0 - 1 - - -
Jimmy Vesey LW 1 0 1 +1 0 2 19 12:50 11:03 1:47 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 -1 17 2 15 11:47 8:57 0:00 2:50 0 0 1 1 - - -
Kyle Okposo RW 0 0 0 -1 2 1 19 13:45 11:53 1:33 0:19 0 0 - - 1 0 100
Johan Larsson LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 18 14:37 8:56 0:00 5:41 0 0 1 1 7 4 64
Sam Reinhart RW 0 0 0 -3 0 4 25 22:42 16:29 6:13 0:00 0 0 1 1 0 1 0
Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 E 0 3 22 24:25 17:56 6:20 0:09 0 0 1 - - - -
Curtis Lazar C 0 1 1 +1 0 0 18 9:19 6:39 0:00 2:40 0 0 1 - 6 5 55
Zemgus Girgensons LW 0 0 0 E 0 2 20 13:18 8:24 0:00 4:54 0 0 - - - - -
Conor Sheary LW 1 2 3 +2 0 4 19 15:00 13:27 1:33 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -3 0 2 28 24:23 17:27 1:40 5:16 0 0 8 - - - -
Brandon Montour D 0 0 0 +1 0 1 26 21:31 18:04 1:07 2:20 0 0 2 - - - -
Victor Olofsson LW 0 0 0 -2 0 1 23 22:05 15:36 6:20 0:09 0 0 - 1 - - -
Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 15 8:21 6:48 0:00 1:33 0 0 - - - - -
Dalton Smith LW 0 0 0 +1 2 0 4 1:26 1:26 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Marcus Johansson LW 1 1 2 +1 2 2 20 19:45 12:37 6:20 0:48 0 0 1 - 5 3 62
Goaltending
Tampa Bay
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy W (35-14-3) 28 24 4 .857 0 60:00
Buffalo
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Linus Ullmark L (17-14-3) 26 21 5 .808 0 57:29