Minnesota Wild vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Wednesday, November 22, 2017 · KeyBank Center
FS-N · MSG-B
Game summary
The Minnesota Wild beat the Buffalo Sabres 5–4 on Wednesday, November 22, 2017 at KeyBank Center. The Sabres outshot the Wild 34–32.
Mikael Granlund scored twice, Nino Niederreiter scored twice and Jordan Nolan scored twice. Jack Eichel, Tyler Ennis and Sam Reinhart also scored.
Devan Dubnyk made 30 saves on 34 shots for the win; Robin Lehner stopped 17 of 19.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Jack Eichel (6)Jason Pominville (8), Evander Kane (9)0–106:55 BUF
Tyler Ennis (4)Marcus Foligno (5), Charlie Coyle (3)1–108:59 MIN
Mikael Granlund (4)Unassisted2–112:28 MIN
Nino Niederreiter (7)Mikko Koivu (9), Ryan Suter (10)3–114:28 MIN ·
2nd period
Jordan Nolan (1)Kyle Okposo (7), Jacob Josefson (1)3–202:01 BUF- Nino Niederreiter (8)Eric Staal (12), Jason Zucker (6)4–207:57 MIN
- Mikael Granlund (5)Mikko Koivu (10), Ryan Suter (11)5–215:56 MIN ·
Sam Reinhart (5)Jake McCabe (4), Johan Larsson (3)5–318:25 BUF
3rd period
- Jordan Nolan (2)Nathan Beaulieu (3)5–413:55 BUF
Team stats
MINBUF
3234
55%45%
2/30/3
66
1118
157
715
55
Penalties
- 14:00 into the first period
Benoit Pouliot · charging2 min - 2:23 into the second period
Mike Reilly · holding2 min - 8:25 into the second periodMike Reilly · hooking2 min
- 12:18 into the second periodJosh Gorges · tripping2 min
- 14:56 into the second periodNathan Beaulieu · roughing2 min
- 19:41 into the second periodJonas Brodin · interference2 min
Season series
Minnesota Wild
| 9Mikko KoivuC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 7 | 20:05 |
| 22Nino NiederreiterR | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 16:38 |
| 64Mikael GranlundC | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 20:07 |
| 20Ryan SuterD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 29:04 |
| 3Charlie CoyleC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15:33 |
| 12Eric StaalC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 17:17 |
| 16Jason ZuckerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17:58 |
| 17Marcus FolignoL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 12:33 |
| 63Tyler EnnisC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 12:13 |
| 7Matt CullenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 09:03 |
| 10Chris StewartR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 06:57 |
| 26Daniel WinnikL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:12 |
| 59Zack MitchellR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 08:54 |
| 4Mike ReillyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 08:26 |
| 23Gustav OlofssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 10:55 |
| 24Mathew DumbaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 23:23 |
| 25Jonas BrodinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 22:15 |
| 46Jared SpurgeonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26:27 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32Alex StalockG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 40Devan DubnykG | W | 34 | 4 | .882 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 17Jordan NolanC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 11:06 |
| 9Evander KaneL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 23:38 |
| 10Jacob JosefsonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 12:04 |
| 15Jack EichelC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 22:01 |
| 21Kyle OkposoR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 19:24 |
| 22Johan LarssonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 07:21 |
| 23Sam ReinhartC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 18:53 |
| 29Jason PominvilleR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 17:32 |
| 19Jake McCabeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 18:24 |
| 82Nathan BeaulieuD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:49 |
| 28Zemgus GirgensonsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:32 |
| 51Kyle CriscuoloC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 05:07 |
| 67Benoit PouliotL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:54 |
| 90Ryan O'ReillyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 20:46 |
| 4Josh GorgesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:59 |
| 6Marco ScandellaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 3 | 24:07 |
| 41Justin FalkD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:27 |
| 93Victor AntipinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 21:40 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Chad JohnsonG | 13 | 3 | .769 | |
| 40Robin LehnerG | L | 19 | 2 | .895 |