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Buffalo Sabres vs Nashville Predators

Regular season · Tuesday, January 20, 2026 · Bridgestone Arena

Buffalo SabresBuffaloSabresAway

5–3

Final

SOG 33–34

Nashville PredatorsNashvillePredatorsHome

FDSNSO · MSG-B

Game summary

The Buffalo Sabres beat the Nashville Predators 5-3 on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at Bridgestone Arena. The Predators outshot the Sabres 34-33.

Noah Ostlund scored twice and Ryan O'Reilly scored twice. Konsta Helenius, Tage Thompson, Filip Forsberg and Peyton Krebs also scored.

Alex Lyon made 31 saves on 34 shots for the win; Juuse Saros stopped 15 of 19.

Goals1st2nd3rdTSOG
Buffalo SabresBUF311533
Nashville PredatorsNSH021334

Three stars

  1. ★1st starKonsta HeleniusBUF · 1G 2A
  2. ★2nd starNoah OstlundBUF · 2G 0A
  3. ★3rd starRyan O'ReillyNSH · 2G 1A

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+
1:45

4–2 · 2nd 11:54 · Forsberg. Byram was 1:45 into his shift when it went in.

GoalBUF on iceNSH on ice

1–0 BUF

1st 8:11 · Ostlund

Long shift: Hague 1:13

2–0 BUF

1st 11:45 · Ostlund

Long shift: Bunting 1:09

3–0 BUF

1st 17:24 · Helenius

Long shift: Svechkov 1:18

4–0 BUF

2nd 4:20 · Thompson

Long shift: Hague 1:05

4–1 NSH

2nd 10:09 · O'Reilly

Tuch 0:32

4–2 NSH

2nd 11:54 · Forsberg

Stuck out there: Byram 1:45

4–3 NSH

3rd 9:30 · O'Reilly

Samuelsson 0:55

5–3 BUF

3rd 18:14 · EN · Krebs

Hague 0:47

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 (2025–26).
3.9%
5.8%
6.5%
7.1%
7.3%
0–20s20–40s40–60s60–80s80s+

1.9×

Shots against a skater 80s+ into his shift go in 1.9 times as often as against fresh legs (7.3% vs 3.9%).

30%

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

Team stats

BUFNSH
33Shots on goal34
45%Faceoff %55%
0/1Power play0/2
6Penalty minutes4
17Hits27
19Blocked shots8
15Giveaways10
4Takeaways6

Penalties

  • 1st 13:24Jason Zucker · tripping2 min
  • 2nd 06:20Luke Evangelista · tripping2 min
  • 2nd 19:43Jordan Greenway · holding2 min
  • 3rd 20:00Mattias Samuelsson · roughing2 min
  • 3rd 20:00Ryan O'Reilly · high sticking2 min

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