Colorado Avalanche vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Saturday, February 19, 2022 · KeyBank Center
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Game summary
The Colorado Avalanche beat the Buffalo Sabres 5-3 on Saturday, February 19, 2022 at KeyBank Center. The Avalanche outshot the Sabres 36-32.
Tage Thompson scored a hat trick. Nathan MacKinnon, J.T. Compher, Nazem Kadri, Alex Newhook and Mikko Rantanen also scored.
Darcy Kuemper made 29 saves on 32 shots for the win; Dustin Tokarski stopped 31 of 35.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Tage Thompson (17)Jeff Skinner (15), Alex Tuch (13)0–102:50 BUF
Nathan MacKinnon (11)Cale Makar (32), Devon Toews (27)1–103:35 COL
J.T. Compher (9)Nicolas Aube-Kubel (9)2–111:18 COL- Tage Thompson (18)Jeff Skinner (16), Rasmus Dahlin (25)2–212:42 BUF
Nazem Kadri (21)Valeri Nichushkin (13)3–213:02 COL
2nd period
- Tage Thompson (19)Mattias Samuelsson (1)3–312:54 BUF
3rd period
Alex Newhook (11)Mikko Rantanen (32)4–308:37 COL
Mikko Rantanen (26)Unassisted5–319:08 COL · EN
Team stats
COLBUF
36Shots on goal32
42%Faceoff %58%
0/2Power play0/1
2Penalty minutes4
8Hits9
12Blocked shots9
3Giveaways8
3Takeaways5
Penalties
- 1st 18:44
Peyton Krebs · slashing2 min - 2nd 13:40Mattias Samuelsson · interference2 min
- 3rd 09:11
Erik Johnson · tripping2 min
Season series
Colorado Avalanche
| 96Mikko RantanenR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 4 | 20:27 |
| 13Valeri NichushkinR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 16:41 |
| 16Nicolas Aube-KubelR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10:22 |
| 18Alex NewhookC | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 3 | 13:21 |
| 29Nathan MacKinnonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 20:16 |
| 37J.T. CompherL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 15:15 |
| 91Nazem KadriC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 17:14 |
| 7Devon ToewsD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 23:37 |
| 8Cale MakarD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 23:42 |
| 17Tyson JostC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | 15:34 |
| 25Logan O'ConnorR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 07:11 |
| 43Darren HelmC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 07:16 |
| 92Gabriel LandeskogL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 20:04 |
| 95Andre BurakovskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:59 |
| 3Jack JohnsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 16:36 |
| 6Erik JohnsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 17:47 |
| 28Ryan MurrayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 15:20 |
| 49Samuel GirardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20:18 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Darcy KuemperG | W | 32 | 29 | 3 | .906 | 60:00 |
| 39Pavel FrancouzG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 72Tage ThompsonR | 3 | 0 | 3 | +1 | 3 | 18:09 |
| 53Jeff SkinnerL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 17:52 |
| 89Alex TuchR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 18:57 |
| 23Mattias SamuelssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16:55 |
| 26Rasmus DahlinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 2 | 23:23 |
| 15John HaydenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:17 |
| 19Peyton KrebsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 15:37 |
| 20Cody EakinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:45 |
| 21Kyle OkposoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 | 16:18 |
| 24Dylan CozensC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 4 | 16:29 |
| 37Casey MittelstadtC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 3 | 15:10 |
| 71Victor OlofssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 16:10 |
| 74Rasmus AsplundC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:40 |
| 96Anders BjorkL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 10:30 |
| 10Henri JokiharjuD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 21:27 |
| 13Mark PysykD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 18:14 |
| 45Casey FitzgeraldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20:20 |
| 78Jacob BrysonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 17:04 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Dustin TokarskiG | L | 35 | 31 | 4 | .886 | 58:43 |
| 41Craig AndersonG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 |