Buffalo Sabres vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Regular season · Thursday, February 23, 2023 · Amalie Arena
MSG-B · BSSUN
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 6–5 in overtime on Thursday, February 23, 2023 at Amalie Arena. The Lightning outshot the Sabres 41–23.
Tage Thompson scored a hat trick. Steven Stamkos, Zemgus Girgensons, Victor Hedman, Jack Quinn, Brayden Point, Anthony Cirelli, Ross Colton and Ilya Lyubushkin also scored.
Eric Comrie made 36 saves on 41 shots for the win; Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 17 of 23.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Steven Stamkos (26)Brayden Point (29), Nikita Kucherov (60)0–102:19 TBL
Zemgus Girgensons (7)Rasmus Dahlin (47), Tyson Jost (14)1–111:41 BUF
2nd period
Tage Thompson (37)Jeff Skinner (33), Rasmus Dahlin (48)2–109:36 BUF · - Tage Thompson (38)Jeff Skinner (34)3–112:20 BUF
Victor Hedman (5)Patrick Maroon (9), Nick Paul (11)3–212:36 TBL
Jack Quinn (10)Peyton Krebs (9), Casey Mittelstadt (26)4–213:25 BUF
3rd period
Brayden Point (34)Victor Hedman (35), Brandon Hagel (26)4–305:48 TBL- Tage Thompson (39)Unassisted5–306:18 BUF
Anthony Cirelli (8)Erik Cernak (10), Brayden Point (30)5–408:33 TBL
Ross Colton (13)Steven Stamkos (35), Brayden Point (31)5–514:54 TBL ·
Overtime
Ilya Lyubushkin (1)Unassisted6–501:41 BUF ·
Team stats
BUFTBL
2341
55%45%
1/21/3
64
4242
913
311
510
Penalties
- 0:24 into the second period
Brandon Hagel · tripping2 min - 6:26 into the second period
Mattias Samuelsson · holding2 min - 8:51 into the second periodNick Paul · interference2 min
- 13:45 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 19:52 into the third periodHenri Jokiharju · delaying game puck over glass2 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 72Tage ThompsonC | 3 | 0 | 3 | +1 | 4 | 17:16 |
| 53Jeff SkinnerL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 16:46 |
| 26Rasmus DahlinD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 27:03 |
| 17Tyson JostC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 14:25 |
| 19Peyton KrebsC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 15:21 |
| 22Jack QuinnR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 12:57 |
| 28Zemgus GirgensonsL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17:45 |
| 37Casey MittelstadtC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 13:16 |
| 46Ilya LyubushkinD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 12:26 |
| 21Kyle OkposoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:25 |
| 24Dylan CozensC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 15:07 |
| 71Victor OlofssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 13:04 |
| 77JJ PeterkaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 10:11 |
| 89Alex TuchR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 19:03 |
| 10Henri JokiharjuD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 21:54 |
| 23Mattias SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 25:04 |
| 25Owen PowerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 24:31 |
| 78Jacob BrysonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 10:12 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Ukko-Pekka LuukkonenG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Eric ComrieG | W | 41 | 5 | .878 |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 21Brayden PointC | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 21:36 |
| 91Steven StamkosC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 5 | 19:22 |
| 77Victor HedmanD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 7 | 26:03 |
| 14Patrick MaroonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 11:15 |
| 20Nick PaulL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 14:02 |
| 38Brandon HagelL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 18:36 |
| 71Anthony CirelliC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 18:54 |
| 79Ross ColtonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 13:15 |
| 86Nikita KucherovR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 6 | 20:27 |
| 81Erik CernakD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 19:34 |
| 10Corey PerryR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:48 |
| 17Alex KillornL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 16:46 |
| 41Pierre-Edouard BellemareL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 10:43 |
| 90Vladislav NamestnikovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 10:31 |
| 7Haydn FleuryD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:13 |
| 28Ian ColeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:51 |
| 48Nick PerbixD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 15:15 |
| 98Mikhail SergachevD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 25:48 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Brian ElliottG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 88Andrei VasilevskiyG | O | 23 | 6 | .739 |