Top Cheddar 2026-27

Tuesday, January 3, 2023 · Capital One Arena

Sabres 5 at Capitals 4

Final/OT

Three Stars

C 98OVR Tage Thompson Sabres First Star 3G · 1A · 5 SOG L 93OVR Alex Ovechkin Capitals Second Star 2G · 7 SOG · 4 HIT L 72OVR Sonny Milano Capitals Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 10:48 Alex Tuch (18) Tage Thompson (25), Jeff Skinner (22) · Wrist BUF 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 12:07 Sonny Milano (6) Anthony Mantha (13), Matt Irwin (2) · Backhand BUF 1 – 1 WSH
  3. 17:29 Tage Thompson (28) PPG Rasmus Dahlin (29), Dylan Cozens (23) · Slap BUF 2 – 1 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 5:50 Tage Thompson (29) Alex Tuch (23), Ilya Lyubushkin (4) · Snap BUF 3 – 1 WSH
  2. 16:46 Alex Ovechkin (27) Evgeny Kuznetsov (28) · Snap BUF 3 – 2 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 0:55 Nic Dowd (10) Sonny Milano (12), Nick Jensen (16) · Wrist BUF 3 – 3 WSH
  2. 7:10 Alex Ovechkin (28) Conor Sheary (16) · Snap BUF 3 – 4 WSH
  3. 11:42 Tyson Jost (3) Casey Mittelstadt (13), Owen Power (13) · Tip-in BUF 4 – 4 WSH

Overtime

  1. 3:00 Tage Thompson (30) Alex Tuch (24) · Snap BUF 5 – 4 WSH

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Tage Thompson C 3 1 5 2 0 +2 19:56 3.50
Alex Tuch R 1 2 4 0 1 +2 18:51 2.70
Owen Power D 0 1 1 0 1 +1 21:44 0.95
Dylan Cozens C 0 1 4 3 0 0 15:53 0.93
Jeff Skinner L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 18:26 0.93
Tyson Jost C 1 0 1 3 0 -1 15:06 0.73
Ilya Lyubushkin D 0 1 0 0 3 +1 14:56 0.68
Casey Mittelstadt C 0 1 1 0 0 -1 15:45 0.50
Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 0 0 2 -1 27:58 0.48
Jack Quinn R 0 0 3 1 0 +1 14:33 0.38
Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 1 1 +1 16:30 0.20
JJ Peterka R 0 0 3 1 0 0 12:38 0.18
Kyle Okposo R 0 0 2 1 0 -1 15:07 0.00
Kale Clague D 0 0 1 1 1 -1 17:20 -0.02
Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 1 2 0 -1 13:22 -0.08
Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 1 0 -1 15:13 -0.10
Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 1 4 1 -2 22:57 -0.18
Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 1 0 -2 13:06 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 32 28 4 .875 63:00 -0.20

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Alex Ovechkin L 2 0 7 4 0 +2 20:33 2.28
Sonny Milano L 1 1 4 0 0 +2 14:55 2.03
Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 1 4 2 0 +3 21:49 1.18
Conor Sheary L 0 1 2 3 0 +2 16:42 0.98
Matt Irwin D 0 1 0 7 3 0 16:22 0.78
Anthony Mantha R 0 1 1 1 0 +1 15:05 0.75
Nic Dowd C 1 0 1 3 0 -1 15:01 0.68
Nick Jensen D 0 1 0 0 1 -1 22:01 0.53
Trevor van Riemsdyk D 0 0 2 0 2 +2 23:27 0.50
Erik Gustafsson D 0 0 1 3 0 +1 22:26 0.22
Martin Fehérváry D 0 0 0 6 3 0 17:01 0.10
Marcus Johansson L 0 0 2 1 0 -1 13:45 0.05
Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 1 3 2 -1 21:57 0.03
Lars Eller C 0 0 2 1 3 -1 13:41 0.00
T.J. Oshie R 0 0 2 1 0 0 15:55 0.00
Dylan Strome C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 15:35 -0.13
Garnet Hathaway R 0 0 0 3 1 -2 11:54 -0.25
Aliaksei Protas L 0 0 2 1 0 -3 8:44 -0.35
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Darcy Kuemper O 29 24 5 .828 62:56 -1.35