Detroit Red Wings vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Thursday, December 29, 2022 · KeyBank Center
SN · SN360 · BSDET · MSG-B
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Detroit Red Wings 6–3 on Thursday, December 29, 2022 at KeyBank Center. The Sabres outshot the Red Wings 35–31.
Casey Mittelstadt scored twice, Kyle Okposo scored a hat trick and Dominik Kubalik scored twice. Jeff Skinner and Jordan Oesterle also scored.
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 28 saves on 31 shots for the win; Magnus Hellberg stopped 29 of 34.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Casey Mittelstadt (6)JJ Peterka (9), Owen Power (11)0–115:32 BUF
2nd period
Jeff Skinner (17)Unassisted0–201:20 BUF- Casey Mittelstadt (7)Owen Power (12), JJ Peterka (10)0–310:28 BUF ·
Kyle Okposo (4)Zemgus Girgensons (5), Peyton Krebs (5)0–411:21 BUF- Kyle Okposo (5)Tyson Jost (7)0–514:02 BUF
3rd period
Dominik Kubalik (11)Elmer Soderblom (3)1–502:35 DET- Dominik Kubalik (12)Joseph Veleno (6), Oskar Sundqvist (9)2–504:23 DET ·
Jordan Oesterle (2)Andrew Copp (17), Jonatan Berggren (7)3–507:11 DET- Kyle Okposo (6)Zemgus Girgensons (6), Dylan Cozens (21)3–616:22 BUF ·
Team stats
DETBUF
3135
46%54%
1/31/5
106
159
167
34
58
Penalties
- 13:29 into the first period
Jonatan Berggren · tripping2 min - 18:31 into the first periodAdam Erne · cross checking2 min
- 18:51 into the first period
Owen Power · interference2 min - 9:14 into the second periodElmer Soderblom · tripping2 min
- 16:48 into the second periodJJ Peterka · embellishment2 min
- 3:34 into the third periodRasmus Dahlin · holding2 min
- 9:12 into the third periodMoritz Seider · roughing2 min
- 17:28 into the third periodJoseph Veleno · slashing2 min
Season series
Detroit Red Wings
| 81Dominik KubalikL | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 5 | 13:59 |
| 18Andrew CoppC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:20 |
| 52Jonatan BerggrenR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12:31 |
| 70Oskar SundqvistC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 15:10 |
| 85Elmer SoderblomL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 11:06 |
| 90Joseph VelenoC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 14:27 |
| 82Jordan OesterleD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 14:38 |
| 23Lucas RaymondL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:35 |
| 24Pius SuterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 13:29 |
| 27Michael RasmussenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 18:35 |
| 57David PerronL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | 15:03 |
| 71Dylan LarkinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 16:28 |
| 73Adam ErneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:10 |
| 2Olli MaattaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 16:51 |
| 8Ben ChiarotD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:48 |
| 17Filip HronekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 6 | 21:25 |
| 53Moritz SeiderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 21:55 |
| 96Jake WalmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 19:33 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39Alex NedeljkovicG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 45Magnus HellbergG | L | 34 | 5 | .853 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 21Kyle OkposoR | 3 | 0 | 3 | +2 | 5 | 13:05 |
| 28Zemgus GirgensonsL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 10:02 |
| 37Casey MittelstadtC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 14:20 |
| 77JJ PeterkaR | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 14:24 |
| 25Owen PowerD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 21:08 |
| 17Tyson JostC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 12:42 |
| 19Peyton KrebsC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11:04 |
| 24Dylan CozensC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 16:25 |
| 53Jeff SkinnerL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 6 | 20:26 |
| 22Jack QuinnR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 13:01 |
| 71Victor OlofssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 13:49 |
| 72Tage ThompsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21:39 |
| 89Alex TuchR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 21:54 |
| 23Mattias SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 22:13 |
| 26Rasmus DahlinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 25:17 |
| 38Kale ClagueD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:01 |
| 46Ilya LyubushkinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 17:36 |
| 78Jacob BrysonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:26 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Ukko-Pekka LuukkonenG | W | 31 | 3 | .903 |
| 41Craig AndersonG | 0 | 0 | – |