Tampa Bay Lightning vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Tuesday, December 31, 2019 · KeyBank Center
SUN · MSG-B
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Buffalo Sabres 6–4 on Tuesday, December 31, 2019 at KeyBank Center. The Sabres outshot the Lightning 28–27.
Alex Killorn scored twice. Conor Sheary, Marcus Johansson, Ondrej Palat, Jimmy Vesey, Jack Eichel, Tyler Johnson, Kevin Shattenkirk and Anthony Cirelli also scored.
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 24 saves on 28 shots for the win; Linus Ullmark stopped 21 of 26.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Conor Sheary (6)Curtis Lazar (1)0–119:03 BUF
2nd period
Marcus Johansson (6)Conor Sheary (6), Marco Scandella (6)0–202:12 BUF
Ondrej Palat (12)Tyler Johnson (9), Mikhail Sergachev (14)1–207:00 TBL · 
Jimmy Vesey (5)Marcus Johansson (12), Conor Sheary (7)1–308:12 BUF
Jack Eichel (25)Unassisted1–409:56 BUF · 
Alex Killorn (14)Brayden Point (17), Nikita Kucherov (28)2–413:57 TBL · 
Tyler Johnson (8)Ondrej Palat (12), Ryan McDonagh (10)3–416:55 TBL
3rd period
Kevin Shattenkirk (6)Tyler Johnson (10), Anthony Cirelli (17)4–406:20 TBL- Alex Killorn (15)Patrick Maroon (8), Cedric Paquette (7)5–408:08 TBL
Anthony Cirelli (9)Alex Killorn (19), Steven Stamkos (22)6–419:57 TBL ·
Team stats
TBLBUF
2728
45%55%
2/50/4
1527
1920
108
58
15
Penalties
- 4:03 into the first period
Steven Stamkos · tripping2 min - 10:29 into the first period
Henri Jokiharju · slashing2 min - 0:08 into the second periodLuke Schenn · roughing2 min
- 0:08 into the second periodDalton Smith · roughing2 min
- 3:21 into the second periodKyle Okposo · slashing2 min
- 5:08 into the second periodHenri Jokiharju · tripping2 min
- 8:34 into the second periodMikhail Sergachev · fighting5 min
- 8:34 into the second periodJake McCabe · instigator2 min
- 8:34 into the second periodJake McCabe · fighting5 min
- 8:34 into the second periodJake McCabe · instigator misconduct10 min
- 11:06 into the second periodTyler Johnson · interference2 min
- 12:59 into the second periodMarcus Johansson · hooking2 min
- 12:07 into the third periodMikhail Sergachev · delaying game puck over glass2 min
- 15:42 into the third periodNikita Kucherov · cross checking2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 9Tyler JohnsonC | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12:17 |
| 17Alex KillornC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 4 | 20:16 |
| 18Ondrej PalatL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 13:32 |
| 71Anthony CirelliC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 18:42 |
| 13Cedric PaquetteC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 12:40 |
| 14Patrick MaroonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 11:09 |
| 21Brayden PointC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 18:44 |
| 86Nikita KucherovR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 19:25 |
| 91Steven StamkosC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 20:53 |
| 22Kevin ShattenkirkD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 17:24 |
| 27Ryan McDonaghD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 23:24 |
| 98Mikhail SergachevD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16:59 |
| 23Carter VerhaegheC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 07:40 |
| 37Yanni GourdeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:34 |
| 67Mitchell StephensC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 07:42 |
| 2Luke SchennD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 11:51 |
| 77Victor HedmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 25:23 |
| 81Erik CernakD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18:25 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Curtis McElhinneyG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 88Andrei VasilevskiyG | W | 28 | 4 | .857 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 43Conor ShearyL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 4 | 15:00 |
| 90Marcus JohanssonL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 19:45 |
| 9Jack EichelC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 25:13 |
| 13Jimmy VeseyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 12:50 |
| 27Curtis LazarC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 09:19 |
| 6Marco ScandellaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 17:21 |
| 21Kyle OkposoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:45 |
| 22Johan LarssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:37 |
| 23Sam ReinhartC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 4 | 22:42 |
| 28Zemgus GirgensonsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:18 |
| 67Dalton SmithL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 01:26 |
| 68Victor OlofssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 22:05 |
| 74Rasmus AsplundC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 08:21 |
| 10Henri JokiharjuD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 13:53 |
| 19Jake McCabeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 11:47 |
| 26Rasmus DahlinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 24:25 |
| 55Rasmus RistolainenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | 24:23 |
| 62Brandon MontourD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 21:31 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Linus UllmarkG | L | 26 | 5 | .808 |
| 40Carter HuttonG | 0 | 0 | – |