National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Buffalo 7, Washington 4
Sunday, February 26, 2023 1:00 PM
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 TOI
Darcy Kuemper G 0 0 0 0 0 30:07
Charlie Lindgren G 0 0 0 0 0 29:53
Nick Jensen D 0 2 2 +1 2 1 24:42
Alex Ovechkin LW 1 0 1 -2 0 7 16:03
Sonny Milano LW 1 0 1 +1 0 2 15:03
Craig Smith RW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 11:33
Dylan Strome C 1 1 2 +1 0 2 15:27
Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 14:34
Lars Eller C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 13:33
Dylan McIlrath D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 11:13
Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 -2 2 0 11:33
Martin Fehervary D 0 0 0 E 2 3 24:44
Tom Wilson RW 0 0 0 -2 0 15:58
Matt Irwin D 0 0 0 -3 0 1 14:21
Erik Gustafsson D 0 1 1 -2 0 22:06
Trevor van Riemsdyk D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 22:29
Conor Sheary LW 0 0 0 -2 0 1 16:02
T.J. Oshie RW 1 1 2 E 0 2 15:33
Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 1 1 -2 0 2 16:05
Nicolas Aube-Kubel RW 0 0 0 -1 7 3 13:01
Buffalo Sabres
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00
Eric Comrie G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 E 2 0 23:40
Tyson Jost C 0 1 1 +1 0 2 13:36
Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 15:02
Kyle Okposo RW 0 1 1 +1 0 1 15:18
Jack Quinn RW 0 2 2 +2 5 0 13:22
Mattias Samuelsson D 0 1 1 +2 0 1 22:10
Dylan Cozens C 3 1 4 +3 4 8 15:41
Owen Power D 0 1 1 +1 0 5 27:43
Zemgus Girgensons LW 1 0 1 +1 0 4 12:12
Vinnie Hinostroza LW 1 1 2 +2 0 3 14:22
Casey Mittelstadt C 0 2 2 +3 0 1 14:36
Kale Clague D 0 0 0 +2 0 1 9:59
Ilya Lyubushkin D 0 1 1 E 0 0 17:56
Jeff Skinner LW 1 0 1 +1 0 3 20:38
Victor Olofsson LW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 16:24
Tage Thompson RW 1 0 1 +1 0 7 19:41
JJ Peterka RW 0 0 0 -1 0 0 12:42
Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 +3 0 13:44
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