Florida Panthers vs. Buffalo SabresOct 18, 2025

FinalSaturday, Oct 18, 2025· KeyBank Center

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
FLA	0	0	0	0		FLA	12	10	10	32
BUF	1	2	0	3		BUF	8	13	10	31

: FLA 78BUF 63
: FLA 3.64BUF 2.44
PP goals: FLA 0BUF 2
Hits: FLA 29BUF 23
Blocks: FLA 17BUF 20
PIM: FLA 12BUF 26
: FLA 50%BUF 50%

Fantasy takeaways

Generated from the play-by-play, shifts and season context. No opinions, just what changed.

Buffalo Sabres beat Florida Panthers 3–0

Buffalo Sabres beat Florida Panthers 3–0 at home. Josh Doan (BUF) led the scoring with 2G 0A. BUF's first power-play unit (Zucker, Thompson, Dahlin, Doan and Benson) scored 1 power-play goal on 4 attempts in 2:26 together.

Points
Josh Doan had two goals (2 points) on 6 shots in 13:55.Doan
PP1
BUF's first power-play unit (Zucker, Thompson, Dahlin, Doan and Benson) scored 1 power-play goal on 4 attempts in 2:26 together.Zucker Thompson Dahlin Doan Benson
New line
New look for FLA: Verhaeghe–Reinhart–Bennett skated 10:08 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (52.2% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Verhaeghe Reinhart Bennett
Usage
Niko Mikkola (FLA) played 6:53, −13:40 down on his 20:33 season average over 67 games.Mikkola
Luck
FLA scored 0 goals on 3.64 expected goals (78 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Jacob Bryson (BUF) played 1:16, −9:48 down on his 11:04 season average over 49 games.Bryson
Usage
Conor Timmins (BUF) played 24:30, +5:53 up on his 18:37 season average over 38 games.Timmins
Usage
Tage Thompson (BUF) played 15:34, −3:43 down on his 19:17 season average over 80 games.Thompson

Shot map

Both teams on one rink, filtered by strength and period.

Shot map

Every attempt, sized by expected goals. Goals are rings, shots on goal dots, misses hollow, blocks crosses.

Strength

Period

Team

← FLA attacks left (bottom on phones)BUF attacks right (top on phones) →

BUF
FLA
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 141 of 141 attempts · BUF 63 · FLA 78

Game flow

Cumulative expected goals and shot attempts, with power plays shaded and goals marked.

Cumulative shot attempts

BUF
FLA
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

BUF pressure
FLA pressure
Goal
Control (|PI| > 0.25)

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: FLA 39% of the game, BUF 24%.

Shift chart

Every shift, grouped by line and pair; bars are coloured by strength state. Click a player to highlight.

Shifts

BUF

FLA

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Head-to-head matchups

BUF skaters (rows) against FLA skaters (columns) at 5v5. Square size is time together; colour is xGF% from the BUF side.

Matchup matrix

BUF xGF% 4060square size = TOI together · blank = under 1:00

Sequence card

5-on-5 possession-chain numbers from the sequence engine (Draw Equity and control cover all situations).

Sequence card
Stat	FLA	BUF
	54	60
	1.90	2.25
	1.77	2.16
	11	14
	5	7
	14	20
	−0.005	+0.005
	39%	24%

Definitions: sequence xG, transition attempts, Draw Equity, control and the Pressure Index.

Lines used

Detected from who actually shared the ice, with time together. Percentages are the unit's share of shot attempts.

Florida Panthers

L1Verhaeghe – Reinhart – Bennett
10:0852% CF
L2Marchand – Luostarinen – Lundell
7:4428% CF
L3Greer – Kunin – Gadjovich
7:328% CF
L4Rodrigues – Boqvist – Samoskevich
6:5433% CF
D1Ekblad – Forsling
8:5847% CF
D2Petry – Balinskis
7:1733% CF
D3Jones – Mikkola
3:3929% CF

PP1Petry – Verhaeghe – Reinhart – Lundell – Samoskevich
6:37100% CF
PP2Marchand – Jones – Ekblad – Bennett – Rodrigues
2:47100% CF
PK1FKunin – Luostarinen
1:44
PK2FReinhart – Boqvist
0:34
PK1DEkblad – Forsling
1:24
PK2DJones – Mikkola
0:32

Current FLA line combinations →

Buffalo Sabres

L1Thompson – Kulich – Benson
10:2457% CF
L2Zucker – Krebs – Quinn
10:0848% CF
L3Tuch – McLeod – Doan
7:2773% CF
L4Geertsen – Malenstyn – Kozak
1:20
D1Timmins – Byram
7:2618% CF
D2Samuelsson – Power
5:1138% CF

PP1Zucker – Thompson – Dahlin – Doan – Benson
2:2680% CF
PK1FTuch – McLeod
6:15
PK2FMalenstyn – Kozak
5:16
PK1DTimmins – Samuelsson
2:37
PK2DDahlin – Power
1:11

Current BUF line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

7:13
BUFJosh DoanPP (Tage Thompson, Rasmus Dahlin)deflected0.12 xG
FLA: Ekblad, Forsling, Kunin, LuostarinenBUF: Zucker, Thompson, Dahlin, Doan, Benson
FLA 0 – 1 BUF

2nd period

11:12
BUFJosh DoanPP (Jason Zucker, Zach Benson)tip-in0.10 xG
FLA: Ekblad, Reinhart, Forsling, LundellBUF: Zucker, Dahlin, Quinn, Doan, Benson
FLA 0 – 2 BUF
14:20
BUFOwen Power (Alex Tuch, Peyton Krebs)tip-in0.10 xG
FLA: Marchand, Ekblad, Forsling, Luostarinen, LundellBUF: Tuch, Timmins, McLeod, Krebs, Power
FLA 0 – 3 BUF

Box score

Skaters grouped by the line they played on; CF% is the 5v5 share of shot attempts while on the ice.

Florida Panthers

FLA skaters
Skater	Line	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Sam Reinhart C	L1	0	2	0.62	3	1	0	23:33	—	—	69	78
Carter Verhaeghe C	L1	0	4	0.46	0	0	0	20:54	—	—	61	66
Sam Bennett C	L1	0	1	0.25	1	1	0	19:08	—	—	52	71
Anton Lundell C	L2	-1	0	0.00	1	1	2	18:30	—	—	50	28
Brad Marchand L	L2	-1	4	0.31	0	0	4	15:37	—	—	42	33
Eetu Luostarinen C	L2	-1	1	0.00	1	1	2	12:30	—	—	42	20
Luke Kunin C	L3	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	10:47	—	—	7	0
Jonah Gadjovich L	L3	0	0	0.00	4	0	0	9:14	—	—	29	1
A.J. Greer L	L3	0	1	0.02	2	0	0	9:12	—	—	29	4
Mackie Samoskevich R	L4	0	7	0.78	1	0	0	17:46	—	—	56	86
Evan Rodrigues C	L4	0	2	0.48	2	2	0	15:33	—	—	57	91
Jesper Boqvist C	L4	0	0	0.01	5	3	0	10:44	—	—	31	69
Aaron Ekblad D	D1	-1	3	0.20	2	4	0	23:07	—	—	40	36
Gustav Forsling D	D1	-1	1	0.10	1	0	0	21:06	—	—	59	47
Uvis Balinskis D	D2	0	1	0.00	2	3	2	18:53	—	—	51	51
Jeff Petry D	D2	0	1	0.06	0	0	0	18:16	—	—	44	82
Seth Jones D	D3	0	4	0.36	3	0	0	23:48	—	—	44	35
Niko Mikkola D	D3	0	0	0.00	0	0	2	6:53	—	—	36	6

FLA goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Sergei Bobrovsky(start)	L	31	28	3	.903	2.44	59:51

Buffalo Sabres

BUF skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Zach Benson L	L1	0	1	1	0	2	0.31	1	0	2	17:25	—	—	61	82
Jiri Kulich C	L1	0	0	0	0	3	0.18	0	1	0	15:37	—	—	60	83
Tage Thompson C	L1	0	1	1	0	2	0.17	3	0	2	15:34	—	—	57	78
Jack Quinn R	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.37	0	0	0	16:20	—	—	41	45
Jason Zucker L	L2	0	1	1	0	1	0.18	0	0	2	14:39	—	—	44	39
Peyton Krebs C	L2	0	1	1	+1	2	0.21	3	0	2	14:25	—	—	50	58
Alex Tuch R	L3	0	1	1	+1	2	0.05	1	0	0	20:22	—	—	54	35
Ryan McLeod C	L3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	1	1	0	18:15	—	—	58	37
Josh Doan R	L3	2	0	2	0	6	0.34	2	0	2	13:55	—	—	63	63
Tyson Kozak C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	9:47	—	—	33	65
Beck Malenstyn L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	3	0	9:23	—	—	20	64
Mason Geertsen L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	0	10	2:06	—	—	—	—
Conor Timmins D	D1	0	0	0	+1	3	0.09	1	6	2	24:30	—	—	48	54
Bowen Byram D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.13	1	2	2	24:17	—	—	46	57
Owen Power D	D2	1	0	1	+1	2	0.19	0	1	0	23:44	—	—	55	40
Mattias Samuelsson D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	2	3	2	22:01	—	—	52	62
Rasmus Dahlin D	—	0	1	1	0	4	0.20	1	2	0	22:36	—	—	53	52
Jacob Bryson D	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	1:16	—	—	100	—

BUF goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Alex Lyon(start)	W	32	32	0	.1000	3.64	59:48

Goal anatomy

Animated replays from NHL EDGE tracking, with the entry, passes and shot speed for each goal.

Josh Doan (BUF PP) 1st 7:13 · assists Tage Thompson, Rasmus Dahlin · Deflection · 22.4 mph shot.

Josh Doan · 1st 7:13 · BUF PP

Play: deflection
Passes: 3 (royal road)
Shot: 22.4 mph
Distance: 8 ft

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Josh Doan · 2nd 11:12 · BUF PP

Play: deflection
Passes: 1
Shot: 24.2 mph
Distance: 6 ft

Watch on NHL.com → · Tracking-derived via NHL EDGE

Owen Power · 2nd 14:20 · BUF

Play: deflection
Entry: carry
Odd man: 4-on-1
Passes: 2 (royal road)
Shot: 39.6 mph
Distance: 9 ft
Entry to goal: 3.4 s
Type: one-timer

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Methodology

Shot locations come from the NHL play-by-play, normalised so each shooter attacks the same way, then flipped so the home team attacks right. On-ice stats and lines come from the shift charts: a unit is the exact set of skaters sharing the ice, and CF% is the share of all shot attempts while they were out. Head-to-head cells are 5v5 time against each opponent. Expected goals and the Pressure Index appear as their models are released.