Toronto Maple Leafs vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Monday, March 5, 2018 · KeyBank Center
NBCSN · TSN4
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5–3 on Monday, March 5, 2018 at KeyBank Center. The Maple Leafs outshot the Sabres 41–24.
Leo Komarov scored twice. Sam Reinhart, Jason Pominville, Zemgus Girgensons, Ryan O'Reilly, Johan Larsson and Mitch Marner also scored.
Chad Johnson made 38 saves on 41 shots for the win; Frederik Andersen stopped 19 of 24.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Sam Reinhart (16)Rasmus Ristolainen (26), Kyle Okposo (27)0–101:53 BUF · 
Jason Pominville (11)Rasmus Ristolainen (27), Johan Larsson (10)0–203:43 BUF
Leo Komarov (6)William Nylander (36), Patrick Marleau (16)1–219:52 TOR ·
2nd period
- Leo Komarov (7)Matt Martin (9), Nikita Zaitsev (8)2–210:48 TOR
Zemgus Girgensons (7)Sam Reinhart (20), Ryan O'Reilly (30)2–313:30 BUF
Ryan O'Reilly (19)Unassisted2–415:35 BUF
3rd period
Johan Larsson (4)Jason Pominville (15), Jordan Nolan (4)2–509:55 BUF
Mitch Marner (18)Connor Carrick (5), Morgan Rielly (32)3–517:57 TOR ·
Team stats
TORBUF
4124
43%57%
2/21/2
99
2320
513
138
114
Penalties
- 1:23 into the first period
Connor Carrick · high sticking2 min - 18:39 into the first period
Zemgus Girgensons · high sticking2 min - 1:39 into the second periodRasmus Ristolainen · fighting5 min
- 1:39 into the second periodNazem Kadri · fighting5 min
- 1:39 into the second periodNazem Kadri · cross checking2 min
- 16:14 into the third periodSam Reinhart · interference goalkeeper2 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 47Leo KomarovC | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 5 | 15:10 |
| 12Patrick MarleauC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 3 | 15:15 |
| 15Matt MartinL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 09:50 |
| 16Mitch MarnerC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 5 | 18:20 |
| 29William NylanderC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18:17 |
| 8Connor CarrickD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 19:30 |
| 22Nikita ZaitsevD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 19:31 |
| 44Morgan RiellyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 1 | 20:57 |
| 11Zach HymanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15:47 |
| 19Tomas PlekanecC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11:17 |
| 24Kasperi KapanenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:04 |
| 25James van RiemsdykL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:42 |
| 28Connor BrownR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:18 |
| 42Tyler BozakC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:47 |
| 43Nazem KadriC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 4 | 14:56 |
| 2Ron HainseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 0 | 17:00 |
| 23Travis DermottD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:30 |
| 51Jake GardinerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 22:47 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Frederik AndersenG | L | 24 | 5 | .792 |
| 35Curtis McElhinneyG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 22Johan LarssonL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 20:30 |
| 23Sam ReinhartC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 17:51 |
| 29Jason PominvilleR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 5 | 16:20 |
| 90Ryan O'ReillyC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 20:41 |
| 55Rasmus RistolainenD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 1 | 25:52 |
| 17Jordan NolanC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 15:54 |
| 21Kyle OkposoR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17:56 |
| 28Zemgus GirgensonsC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 18:02 |
| 10Jacob JosefsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:48 |
| 13Nick BaptisteR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 06:47 |
| 20Scott WilsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 17:22 |
| 51Kyle CriscuoloC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:29 |
| 67Benoit PouliotL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 06:24 |
| 6Marco ScandellaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | 25:47 |
| 8Casey NelsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:51 |
| 45Brendan GuhleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:50 |
| 82Nathan BeaulieuD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 16:04 |
| 93Victor AntipinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:36 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Chad JohnsonG | W | 41 | 3 | .927 |
| 40Robin LehnerG | 0 | 0 | – |