Colorado Avalanche vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Sunday, February 11, 2018 · KeyBank Center
ALT · MSG-B
Game summary
The Colorado Avalanche beat the Buffalo Sabres 5–4 on Sunday, February 11, 2018 at KeyBank Center. The Sabres outshot the Avalanche 32–27.
Goals came from Alexander Kerfoot, Benoit Pouliot, Matt Nieto, Colin Wilson, Casey Nelson, Tyson Jost, Gabriel Bourque, Ryan O'Reilly and Evander Kane.
Jonathan Bernier made 28 saves on 32 shots for the win; Robin Lehner stopped 22 of 27.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Alexander Kerfoot (13)Colin Wilson (9), Nikita Zadorov (11)1–000:43 COL
Benoit Pouliot (11)Ryan O'Reilly (22)1–107:57 BUF · 
Matt Nieto (10)Unassisted2–109:19 COL ·
2nd period
Colin Wilson (5)Gabriel Landeskog (22)3–101:07 COL
Casey Nelson (1)Ryan O'Reilly (23), Justin Falk (1)3–213:15 BUF ·
3rd period
Tyson Jost (5)Tyson Barrie (26), Mikko Rantanen (35)4–203:05 COL · 
Gabriel Bourque (5)Anton Lindholm (2)5–207:03 COL
Ryan O'Reilly (17)Kyle Okposo (24), Rasmus Ristolainen (21)5–312:14 BUF · 
Evander Kane (18)Unassisted5–417:08 BUF
Team stats
COLBUF
2732
35%65%
1/51/5
1212
108
710
23
42
Penalties
- 6:45 into the first period
Jordan Nolan · high sticking2 min - 8:57 into the first period
Bench · too many men on the ice2 min - 15:52 into the first periodMarco Scandella · slashing2 min
- 17:42 into the first periodScott Wilson · high sticking2 min
- 17:42 into the first periodBench · delaying game bench face off violation2 min
- 3:20 into the second periodNikita Zadorov · holding2 min
- 6:34 into the second periodJacob Josefson · holding2 min
- 8:40 into the second periodTyson Barrie · slashing2 min
- 11:45 into the second periodJordan Nolan · holding2 min
- 2:34 into the third periodJohan Larsson · boarding2 min
- 10:42 into the third periodA.J. Greer · interference2 min
- 12:06 into the third periodCarl Soderberg · hooking2 min
Season series
Colorado Avalanche
| 22Colin WilsonC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 13:16 |
| 13Alexander KerfootC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 14:45 |
| 17Tyson JostC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 18:43 |
| 57Gabriel BourqueL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:18 |
| 83Matt NietoL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | 16:05 |
| 92Gabriel LandeskogL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 17:50 |
| 96Mikko RantanenR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 19:22 |
| 4Tyson BarrieD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 19:00 |
| 16Nikita ZadorovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17:34 |
| 54Anton LindholmD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 2 | 14:51 |
| 24A.J. GreerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:04 |
| 34Carl SoderbergC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:23 |
| 37J.T. CompherL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 21:08 |
| 47Dominic ToninatoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:06 |
| 64Nail YakupovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 07:11 |
| 6Erik JohnsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26:31 |
| 12Patrik NemethD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 20:48 |
| 49Samuel GirardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 13:54 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Semyon VarlamovG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 45Jonathan BernierG | W | 32 | 4 | .875 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 90Ryan O'ReillyC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 5 | 26:48 |
| 9Evander KaneL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 21:44 |
| 21Kyle OkposoR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 2 | 16:34 |
| 67Benoit PouliotL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12:39 |
| 8Casey NelsonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 19:17 |
| 41Justin FalkD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 15:30 |
| 55Rasmus RistolainenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 1 | 23:48 |
| 10Jacob JosefsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 07:07 |
| 17Jordan NolanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:39 |
| 20Scott WilsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11:27 |
| 22Johan LarssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | 11:27 |
| 23Sam ReinhartC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:37 |
| 28Zemgus GirgensonsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:16 |
| 29Jason PominvilleR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:01 |
| 71Evan RodriguesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 19:22 |
| 6Marco ScandellaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25:10 |
| 82Nathan BeaulieuD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 13:32 |
| 93Victor AntipinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15:02 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Chad JohnsonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 40Robin LehnerG | L | 27 | 5 | .815 |