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Carolina Hurricanes vs Buffalo Sabres

Regular season · Wednesday, January 15, 2025 · KeyBank Center

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2–4

Final

SOG 37–24

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Game summary

The Buffalo Sabres beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-2 on Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at KeyBank Center. The Hurricanes outshot the Sabres 37-24.

Ryan McLeod scored a hat trick. Dylan Cozens, Jaccob Slavin and Martin Necas also scored.

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 35 saves on 37 shots for the win; Dustin Tokarski stopped 21 of 24.

Goals1st2nd3rdTSOG
Carolina HurricanesCAR002237
Buffalo SabresBUF121424

Three stars

  1. ★1st starRyan McLeodBUF · 3G 0A
  2. ★2nd starUkko-Pekka LuukkonenBUF · .946 SV%
  3. ★3rd starDylan CozensBUF · 1G 0A

Scoring

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Tired legs

Seconds into the shift for every skater on the ice at each goal. Taller bar, longer shift.

0–20s20–40s40–60s60–80s80s+
1:12

2–3 · 3rd 16:50 · Necas. BUF stayed on through an icing. Lafferty was 1:12 into his shift when it went in.

GoalCAR on iceBUF on ice

0–1 BUF

1st 0:43 · McLeod

Staal 0:43

0–2 BUF

2nd 8:18 · Cozens

Long shift: Burns 1:08

0–3 BUF

2nd 19:56 · McLeod

Drury 0:19

1–3 CAR

3rd 3:45 · Slavin

Krebs 0:36

2–3 CAR

3rd 16:50 · Necas

Long shift: Lafferty 1:12

2–4 BUF

3rd 19:36 · EN · McLeod

Svechnikov 2:19

Hover or tap a bar for the skater.

Across the league. Share of 5v5 unblocked shots that went in, by how far into his shift the defending team’s longest-serving skater was (2024–25).
4.2%
5.7%
5.9%
6.9%
6.6%
0–20s20–40s40–60s60–80s80s+

1.6×

Shots against a skater 80s+ into his shift go in 1.6 times as often as against fresh legs (6.6% vs 4.2%).

29%

of 5v5 goals came with a defender 60s+ into his shift.

Team stats

CARBUF
37Shots on goal24
50%Faceoff %50%
0/3Power play0/1
2Penalty minutes6
11Hits16
12Blocked shots25
17Giveaways20
2Takeaways7

Penalties

  • 1st 06:10Sam Lafferty · kneeing2 min
  • 1st 08:18Ryan McLeod · cross checking2 min
  • 1st 15:16Sean Walker · holding the stick2 min
  • 2nd 03:42Connor Clifton · interference2 min

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