National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Tampa Bay 7, Buffalo 5
When: 7:30 PM ET, Friday, April 6, 2018
Where: Amalie Arena, Tampa, Florida
Referees: Frederic L'Ecuyer, Kendrick Nicholson
Linesmen: Bevan Mills, Tim Nowak
Attendance: 19092
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Buffalo 2305
Tampa Bay 3137
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
0:30 - Lightning Anthony Cirelli (EV) Assists: Yanni Gourde
2:57 - Sabres Casey Mittelstadt (PP) Assists: Marco Scandella , Evan Rodrigues
4:35 - Lightning Nikita Kucherov (EV) Unassisted
6:32 - Sabres Alexander Nylander (EV) Assists: Brendan Guhle , Rasmus Ristolainen
9:40 - Lightning Yanni Gourde (EV) Assists: Alex Killorn
Penalties
1:16 - Lightning Victor Hedman (2) Delay of game
 17:22 - Lightning Cory Conacher (2) High sticking
2nd Period
Scoring
1:04 - Lightning Dan Girardi (EV) Assists: Nikita Kucherov , Ondrej Palat
8:59 - Sabres Jason Pominville (EV) Assists: Brendan Guhle , Evan Rodrigues
15:58 - Sabres Jordan Nolan (EV) Assists: Johan Larsson
18:45 - Sabres Kyle Okposo (PP) Assists: Jack Eichel , Ryan O'Reilly
Penalties
4:24 - Sabres Marco Scandella (2) Roughing
 4:24 - Sabres Marco Scandella (2) Roughing
 9:55 - Lightning J.T. Miller (2) High sticking
 17:46 - Lightning Alex Killorn (2) Hooking
 19:50 - Sabres Marco Scandella (2) High sticking
3rd Period
Scoring
6:15 - Lightning Anthony Cirelli (EV) Assists: Alex Killorn , Mikhail Sergachev
7:02 - Lightning Brayden Point (EV) Assists: Alex Killorn , Yanni Gourde
18:34 - Lightning Victor Hedman (EV) (EN) Assists: Andrei Vasilevskiy
Penalties
8:19 - Lightning Cory Conacher (2) Tripping
Buffalo Sabres
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Chad Johnson G 0 0 0 0 0 57:54 43:14 8:40 6:00 0 0 - - - - -
Adam Wilcox G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Marco Scandella D 0 1 1 -3 6 1 27 20:27 17:49 2:38 0:00 0 0 3 2 - - -
Casey Nelson D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 25 19:30 16:55 0:07 2:28 0 0 2 - - - -
Nicholas Baptiste RW 0 0 0 +1 0 1 15 11:21 6:13 2:48 2:20 0 0 2 - - - -
Jack Eichel C 0 1 1 -2 0 4 23 21:39 13:53 5:55 1:51 0 0 2 1 5 9 36
Jordan Nolan LW 1 0 1 +1 0 2 12 8:58 8:58 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 1 - - -
Scott Wilson C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 24 17:27 15:41 0:00 1:46 0 0 2 1 - - -
Kyle Okposo RW 1 0 1 -2 0 2 20 18:40 12:45 5:55 0:00 1 0 - - 0 1 0
Johan Larsson C 0 1 1 E 0 1 22 15:43 12:20 0:02 3:21 0 0 3 - 3 2 60
Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -4 0 1 22 17:43 11:53 5:50 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Jason Pominville RW 1 0 1 +1 0 2 20 15:10 12:20 2:50 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Casey Mittelstadt C 1 0 1 +1 0 4 19 13:32 10:49 2:43 0:00 1 0 - - 2 1 67
Justin Falk D 0 0 0 +1 0 0 22 14:26 11:05 0:09 3:12 0 0 1 3 - - -
Brendan Guhle D 0 2 2 -2 0 1 24 19:15 17:04 0:00 2:11 0 0 3 2 - - -
Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 1 1 -2 0 4 31 26:52 16:48 5:55 4:09 0 0 4 1 - - -
Evan Rodrigues LW 0 2 2 E 0 2 19 14:17 9:50 3:44 0:43 0 0 - - 1 2 33
Nathan Beaulieu D 0 0 0 +1 0 2 17 11:01 11:01 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Ryan O'Reilly C 0 1 1 -4 0 2 31 19:36 12:53 4:44 1:59 0 0 3 - 16 14 53
Alexander Nylander RW 1 0 1 -3 0 1 15 10:29 10:29 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Tampa Bay Lightning
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Louis Domingue G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Andrei Vasilevskiy G 0 1 1 0 0 59:27 44:47 6:00 8:40 0 0 - - - - -
Dan Girardi D 1 0 1 +2 0 2 25 19:54 16:37 0:00 3:17 0 0 4 1 - - -
Anton Stralman D 0 0 0 +2 0 1 25 21:49 16:09 0:19 5:21 0 0 - 1 - - -
Tyler Johnson C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 22 17:25 12:36 2:46 2:03 0 0 1 - 3 2 60
J.T. Miller LW 0 0 0 -1 2 1 22 18:08 12:19 3:58 1:51 0 0 2 - 1 4 20
Cedric Paquette C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 17 12:20 10:02 0:00 2:18 0 0 - - 7 6 54
Chris Kunitz LW 0 0 0 -1 0 0 13 10:27 10:27 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Alex Killorn LW 0 3 3 +5 2 5 20 16:47 10:47 3:14 2:46 0 0 - 1 - - -
Ondrej Palat LW 0 1 1 +1 0 3 21 15:40 12:33 2:02 1:05 0 0 3 - 0 1 0
Brayden Point C 1 0 1 +2 0 1 23 18:17 12:30 3:58 1:49 0 0 - - 8 8 50
Ryan Callahan RW 0 0 0 -1 0 2 18 12:31 10:29 0:00 2:02 0 0 3 1 - - -
Ryan McDonagh D 0 0 0 +2 0 1 27 22:25 16:45 0:19 5:21 0 0 - 3 - - -
Yanni Gourde C 1 2 3 +5 0 3 17 13:26 11:58 1:28 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Braydon Coburn D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 15 11:16 10:23 0:00 0:53 0 0 - 2 - - -
Anthony Cirelli C 2 0 2 +4 0 3 18 13:33 10:07 0:00 3:26 0 0 - - 10 6 62
Victor Hedman D 1 0 1 +3 2 3 29 26:11 19:33 4:10 2:28 0 0 3 - - - -
Nikita Kucherov RW 1 1 2 +1 0 4 21 16:28 11:56 4:32 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Cory Conacher LW 0 0 0 -1 4 1 18 12:37 10:54 1:43 0:00 0 0 1 1 - - -
Mikhail Sergachev D 0 1 1 E 0 1 13 12:39 11:08 1:31 0:00 0 0 1 1 - - -
Goaltending
Buffalo
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Chad Johnson L (10-16-3) 33 27 6 .818 0 57:54
Tampa Bay
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy W (44-17-3) 32 27 5 .844 0 59:27