Buffalo Sabres vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Regular season · Monday, November 25, 2019 · Amalie Arena
SUN · MSG-B
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Buffalo Sabres 5–2 on Monday, November 25, 2019 at Amalie Arena. The Sabres outshot the Lightning 30–29.
Goals came from Nikita Kucherov, Sam Reinhart, Jimmy Vesey, Mikhail Sergachev, Yanni Gourde, Cedric Paquette and Ondrej Palat.
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 28 saves on 30 shots for the win; Carter Hutton stopped 24 of 29.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Nikita Kucherov (8)Ondrej Palat (6)0–100:13 TBL
Sam Reinhart (9)Victor Olofsson (10), Jack Eichel (16)1–103:40 BUF
2nd period
Jimmy Vesey (1)Unassisted2–101:48 BUF
Mikhail Sergachev (2)Ondrej Palat (7), Kevin Shattenkirk (12)2–207:20 TBL · 
Yanni Gourde (6)Ryan McDonagh (6), Patrick Maroon (5)2–309:26 TBL
3rd period
Cedric Paquette (3)Anthony Cirelli (10), Ryan McDonagh (7)2–408:17 TBL · 
Ondrej Palat (8)Mathieu Joseph (3)2–509:06 TBL ·
Team stats
BUFTBL
3029
36%64%
0/41/4
88
1423
1212
36
47
Penalties
- 16:02 into the first period
Carter Hutton · tripping2 min - 2:56 into the second period
Nikita Kucherov · high sticking2 min - 5:34 into the second periodJohan Larsson · high sticking2 min
- 12:08 into the second periodYanni Gourde · high sticking2 min
- 17:07 into the second periodAlex Killorn · tripping2 min
- 20:00 into the second periodJohan Larsson · holding2 min
- 6:13 into the third periodMarco Scandella · hooking2 min
- 8:07 into the third periodKevin Shattenkirk · tripping2 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 9Jack EichelC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 4 | 22:57 |
| 13Jimmy VeseyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 18:59 |
| 23Sam ReinhartC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 1 | 22:51 |
| 68Victor OlofssonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 22:56 |
| 22Johan LarssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 12:11 |
| 27Curtis LazarC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:04 |
| 28Zemgus GirgensonsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 13:47 |
| 37Casey MittelstadtC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 17:03 |
| 43Conor ShearyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:26 |
| 53Jeff SkinnerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | 18:13 |
| 74Rasmus AsplundC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 09:21 |
| 4Zach BogosianD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 18:45 |
| 6Marco ScandellaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:33 |
| 10Henri JokiharjuD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:24 |
| 26Rasmus DahlinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:23 |
| 33Colin MillerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:55 |
| 55Rasmus RistolainenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:55 |
| 62Brandon MontourD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 18:05 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Linus UllmarkG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 40Carter HuttonG | L | 29 | 5 | .828 |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 18Ondrej PalatL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 1 | 17:07 |
| 27Ryan McDonaghD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 22:53 |
| 7Mathieu JosephR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12:52 |
| 13Cedric PaquetteC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 13:35 |
| 14Patrick MaroonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 14:36 |
| 37Yanni GourdeC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 17:35 |
| 71Anthony CirelliC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 16:17 |
| 86Nikita KucherovR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 20:34 |
| 22Kevin ShattenkirkD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12:28 |
| 98Mikhail SergachevD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 15:49 |
| 9Tyler JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 15:14 |
| 17Alex KillornC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:19 |
| 21Brayden PointC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 19:54 |
| 23Carter VerhaegheC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 10:22 |
| 2Luke SchennD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 12:28 |
| 55Braydon CoburnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:15 |
| 77Victor HedmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 20:57 |
| 81Erik CernakD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 18:29 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Curtis McElhinneyG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 88Andrei VasilevskiyG | W | 30 | 2 | .933 |