National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Buffalo 7, Washington 4
When: 1:00 PM ET, Sunday, February 26, 2023
Where: KeyBank Center, Buffalo, New York
Referees: Brandon Blandina, Kendrick Nicholson
Linesmen: Brad Kovachik, James Tobias
Attendance: 19070
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Washington 2204
Buffalo 2417
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
10:40 - Sabres Dylan Cozens (EV) Assists: Casey Mittelstadt , Ilya Lyubushkin
14:45 - Capitals Dylan Strome (EV) Assists: Nick Jensen , T.J. Oshie
16:35 - Sabres Tage Thompson (EV) Unassisted
16:50 - Capitals T.J. Oshie (EV) Assists: Dylan Strome , Nick Jensen
Penalties
None.
2nd Period
Scoring
5:49 - Sabres Jeff Skinner (EV) Assists: Mattias Samuelsson , Jack Quinn
8:36 - Sabres Zemgus Girgensons (EV) Assists: Kyle Okposo , Tyson Jost
10:07 - Sabres Vinnie Hinostroza (EV) Assists: Owen Power , Dylan Cozens
12:49 - Sabres Dylan Cozens (EV) Assists: Jack Quinn
15:49 - Capitals Alex Ovechkin (EV) Assists: Erik Gustafsson , Evgeny Kuznetsov
18:40 - Capitals Sonny Milano (PP) Unassisted
Penalties
16:32 - Capitals Nicolas Aube-Kubel (2) Cross checking
16:32 - Sabres Jack Quinn (5) Fighting
16:32 - Capitals Nicolas Aube-Kubel (5) Fighting
18:00 - Sabres Dylan Cozens (2) Roughing
18:00 - Capitals Martin Fehervary (2) Roughing
18:00 - Sabres Dylan Cozens (2) Roughing
3rd Period
Scoring
11:52 - Sabres Dylan Cozens (EV) Assists: Vinnie Hinostroza , Casey Mittelstadt
Penalties
7:09 - Capitals Nick Jensen (2) Hooking
14:02 - Capitals Nic Dowd (2) Cross checking
19:26 - Sabres Henri Jokiharju (2) Hooking
Washington Capitals
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Darcy Kuemper G 0 0 0 0 0 30:07 30:07 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Charlie Lindgren G 0 0 0 0 0 29:53 23:43 0:42 5:28 0 0 - - - - -
Nick Jensen D 0 2 2 +1 2 1 26 24:42 22:22 0:08 2:12 0 0 1 - - - -
Alex Ovechkin LW 1 0 1 -2 0 7 21 16:03 15:29 0:34 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Sonny Milano LW 1 0 1 +1 0 2 20 15:03 14:55 0:08 0:00 1 0 1 - - - -
Craig Smith RW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 14 11:33 11:33 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Dylan Strome C 1 1 2 +1 0 2 20 15:27 15:19 0:08 0:00 0 0 - - 4 9 31
Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 18 14:34 13:38 0:34 0:22 0 0 1 - 6 7 46
Lars Eller C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 20 13:33 10:23 0:00 3:10 0 0 - - 2 3 40
Dylan McIlrath D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 19 11:13 10:29 0:00 0:44 0 0 2 1 - - -
Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 -2 2 0 19 11:33 10:20 0:00 1:13 0 0 - - 4 6 40
Martin Fehervary D 0 0 0 E 2 3 24 24:44 21:54 0:00 2:50 0 0 2 4 - - -
Tom Wilson RW 0 0 0 -2 0 23 15:58 13:44 0:08 2:06 0 0 3 1 1 0 100
Matt Irwin D 0 0 0 -3 0 1 23 14:21 12:18 0:00 2:03 0 0 - 1 - - -
Erik Gustafsson D 0 1 1 -2 0 24 22:06 21:31 0:34 0:01 0 0 1 - - - -
Trevor van Riemsdyk D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 27 22:29 19:12 0:08 3:09 0 0 - 2 - - -
Conor Sheary LW 0 0 0 -2 0 1 19 16:02 13:04 0:00 2:58 0 0 1 1 - - -
T.J. Oshie RW 1 1 2 E 0 2 20 15:33 14:59 0:34 0:00 0 0 2 - 0 1 0
Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 1 1 -2 0 2 23 16:05 14:27 0:34 1:04 0 0 - - 7 7 50
Nicolas Aube-Kubel RW 0 0 0 -1 7 3 16 13:01 13:01 0:00 0:00 0 0 3 - - - -
Buffalo Sabres
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00 53:50 5:28 0:42 0 0 - - - - -
Eric Comrie G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 E 2 0 31 23:40 22:19 1:19 0:02 0 0 - 2 - - -
Tyson Jost C 0 1 1 +1 0 2 16 13:36 13:36 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 - 1 1 50
Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 17 15:02 13:35 1:19 0:08 0 0 2 - 4 3 57
Kyle Okposo RW 0 1 1 +1 0 1 18 15:18 14:09 0:35 0:34 0 0 1 - 4 1 80
Jack Quinn RW 0 2 2 +2 5 0 18 13:22 12:32 0:50 0:00 0 0 - - 0 1 0
Mattias Samuelsson D 0 1 1 +2 0 1 28 22:10 21:30 0:00 0:40 0 0 - - - - -
Dylan Cozens C 3 1 4 +3 4 8 20 15:41 11:38 4:03 0:00 0 0 - - 11 7 61
Owen Power D 0 1 1 +1 0 5 28 27:43 23:31 4:08 0:04 0 0 1 1 - - -
Zemgus Girgensons LW 1 0 1 +1 0 4 17 12:12 11:38 0:00 0:34 0 0 - 1 1 0 100
Vinnie Hinostroza LW 1 1 2 +2 0 3 19 14:22 14:22 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Casey Mittelstadt C 0 2 2 +3 0 1 19 14:36 13:42 0:46 0:08 0 0 - - 3 3 50
Kale Clague D 0 0 0 +2 0 1 17 9:59 9:59 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Ilya Lyubushkin D 0 1 1 E 0 0 25 17:56 17:18 0:00 0:38 0 0 - 3 - - -
Jeff Skinner LW 1 0 1 +1 0 3 21 20:38 15:53 4:45 0:00 0 0 - - 2 4 33
Victor Olofsson LW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 18 16:24 12:14 4:10 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Tage Thompson RW 1 0 1 +1 0 7 22 19:41 15:35 4:06 0:00 0 0 - - 6 4 60
JJ Peterka RW 0 0 0 -1 0 0 16 12:42 11:57 0:45 0:00 0 0 - - 1 0 100
Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 +3 0 20 13:44 13:10 0:34 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Goaltending
Washington
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Darcy Kuemper L (22-26-7) 19 14 5 .737 0 30:07
Charlie Lindgren 18 16 2 .889 0 29:53
Buffalo
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W (17-11-4) 30 26 4 .867 0 60:00