New Jersey Devils vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Tuesday, January 8, 2019 · KeyBank Center
MSG-B · MSG
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the New Jersey Devils 5–1 on Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at KeyBank Center. The Sabres outshot the Devils 33–21.
Goals came from Blake Coleman, Jeff Skinner, C.J. Smith, Casey Mittelstadt, Jake McCabe and Lawrence Pilut.
Carter Hutton made 20 saves on 21 shots for the win; Keith Kinkaid stopped 28 of 33.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Blake Coleman (13)Miles Wood (9), Travis Zajac (14)1–001:28 NJD
2nd period
Jeff Skinner (29)Tage Thompson (4)1–101:39 BUF
C.J. Smith (1)Johan Larsson (3), Kyle Okposo (11)1–204:14 BUF
Casey Mittelstadt (6)Zach Bogosian (7), Rasmus Dahlin (17)1–310:42 BUF
Jake McCabe (3)Evan Rodrigues (10), Vladimir Sobotka (4)1–416:00 BUF · 
Lawrence Pilut (1)Conor Sheary (9), Rasmus Ristolainen (22)1–517:45 BUF
Team stats
NJDBUF
2133
46%54%
0/40/1
1420
1113
1911
36
19
Penalties
- 2:50 into the first period
Rasmus Dahlin · high sticking2 min - 14:29 into the second periodJeff Skinner · slashing2 min
- 3:36 into the third periodCasey Mittelstadt · hooking2 min
- 13:05 into the third periodEvan Rodrigues · roughing2 min
- 13:05 into the third period
Stefan Noesen · roughing2 min - 13:05 into the third periodStefan Noesen · roughing2 min
- 17:34 into the third periodLawrence Pilut · misconduct10 min
- 17:34 into the third periodMiles Wood · misconduct10 min
- 18:35 into the third periodRasmus Ristolainen · holding2 min
Season series
New Jersey Devils
| 19Travis ZajacC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 20:51 |
| 20Blake ColemanC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17:02 |
| 44Miles WoodL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17:33 |
| 11Brian BoyleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 14:59 |
| 13Nico HischierC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 17:28 |
| 18Drew StaffordR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 10:49 |
| 21Kyle PalmieriC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | 18:13 |
| 23Stefan NoesenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:03 |
| 37Pavel ZachaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:11 |
| 43Brett SeneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 10:39 |
| 56Blake PietilaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:47 |
| 63Jesper BrattL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 14:59 |
| 6Andy GreeneD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 20:07 |
| 8Will ButcherD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:26 |
| 12Ben LovejoyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:20 |
| 16Steven SantiniD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 17:10 |
| 28Damon SeversonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 21:00 |
| 45Sami VatanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20:32 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Keith KinkaidG | L | 33 | 5 | .848 |
| 33Cameron JohnsonG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 17Vladimir SobotkaC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:25 |
| 21Kyle OkposoR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 13:55 |
| 22Johan LarssonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:07 |
| 37Casey MittelstadtC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 11:25 |
| 43Conor ShearyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 14:23 |
| 49C.J. SmithL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 12:18 |
| 53Jeff SkinnerC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 16:38 |
| 71Evan RodriguesC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 16:25 |
| 72Tage ThompsonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 15:41 |
| 4Zach BogosianD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 21:57 |
| 19Jake McCabeD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 20:08 |
| 24Lawrence PilutD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 16:09 |
| 26Rasmus DahlinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 20:13 |
| 55Rasmus RistolainenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 20:59 |
| 23Sam ReinhartC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 14:45 |
| 28Zemgus GirgensonsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 14:41 |
| 29Jason PominvilleR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 09:32 |
| 6Marco ScandellaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:54 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Linus UllmarkG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 40Carter HuttonG | W | 21 | 1 | .952 |