Top Cheddar 2026-27

Thursday, January 2, 2025 · Ball Arena

Sabres 5 at Avalanche 6

Final/OT

Three Stars

D 95OVR Devon Toews Avalanche First Star 1G · 2A · 4 SOG L 82OVR Jason Zucker Sabres Second Star 3G · 1A · 4 SOG D 99OVR Cale Makar Avalanche Third Star 2G · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 13:17 Jason Zucker (12) PPG Jack Quinn (9), Tage Thompson (13) · Tip-in BUF 1 – 0 COL
  2. 17:10 Bowen Byram (5) Jason Zucker (16), Dylan Cozens (12) · Backhand BUF 2 – 0 COL

2nd Period

  1. 11:08 Jason Zucker (13) PPG Tage Thompson (14), Rasmus Dahlin (21) · Tip-in BUF 3 – 0 COL
  2. 14:58 Cale Makar (12) Jonathan Drouin (5), Devon Toews (13) · Wrist BUF 3 – 1 COL

3rd Period

  1. 1:05 Ross Colton (12) Samuel Girard (16) · Wrist BUF 3 – 2 COL
  2. 1:27 Zach Benson (7) Peyton Krebs (8), JJ Peterka (17) · Wraparound BUF 4 – 2 COL
  3. 4:17 Mikko Rantanen (22) PPG Nathan MacKinnon (48), Casey Mittelstadt (17) · Snap BUF 4 – 3 COL
  4. 16:09 Jason Zucker (14) Tage Thompson (15) · Snap BUF 5 – 3 COL
  5. 17:34 Cale Makar (13) Nathan MacKinnon (49), Devon Toews (14) · Slap BUF 5 – 4 COL
  6. 19:52 Jonathan Drouin (3) Nathan MacKinnon (50), Mikko Rantanen (34) · Snap BUF 5 – 5 COL

Overtime

  1. 0:48 Devon Toews (3) Unassisted · Wrist BUF 5 – 6 COL

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jason Zucker L 3 1 4 2 2 +1 18:14 3.43
Tage Thompson C 0 3 4 0 1 -1 19:43 2.18
Zach Benson L 1 0 1 1 0 +1 9:34 0.83
JJ Peterka R 0 1 2 2 0 +1 11:53 0.83
Bowen Byram D 1 0 1 1 0 0 21:15 0.83
Peyton Krebs C 0 1 0 2 0 0 8:42 0.63
Jack Quinn R 0 1 0 1 0 -1 15:22 0.48
Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 1 0 -2 23:17 0.40
Dylan Cozens C 0 1 1 3 0 -2 18:52 0.25
Jacob Bryson D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 13:20 0.22
Ryan McLeod C 0 0 3 0 0 0 15:17 0.18
Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 4 0 +1 12:59 0.00
Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 3 2 -1 15:59 -0.05
Sam Lafferty C 0 0 0 2 0 0 10:11 -0.05
Owen Power D 0 0 2 1 0 -1 22:06 -0.05
Jiri Kulich C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 16:36 -0.08
Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 1 4 -2 19:24 -0.25
Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 3 0 -2 24:27 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen O 29 23 6 .793 60:48 -2.20

Colorado Avalanche

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Devon Toews D 1 2 4 0 2 +3 27:14 2.80
Cale Makar D 2 0 5 1 2 +3 28:17 2.53
Nathan MacKinnon C 0 3 3 1 1 +2 26:16 2.45
Jonathan Drouin L 1 1 2 1 0 +3 22:46 1.98
Mikko Rantanen R 1 1 3 2 0 +1 25:34 1.85
Casey Mittelstadt C 0 1 3 0 0 +1 17:29 1.00
Ross Colton C 1 0 2 2 0 +1 14:24 0.90
Samuel Girard D 0 1 1 2 1 0 20:32 0.75
Oskar Olausson R 0 0 2 0 1 0 7:57 0.15
Artturi Lehkonen L 0 0 0 1 0 +2 22:01 0.15
Sam Malinski D 0 0 1 0 1 0 13:42 0.13
Juuso Parssinen C 0 0 0 1 0 0 7:01 0.00
Jere Innala L 0 0 0 1 0 0 7:06 0.00
Logan O'Connor R 0 0 1 2 0 -1 10:47 -0.08
Parker Kelly C 0 0 0 5 0 -1 12:13 -0.10
Josh Manson D 0 0 1 4 1 -1 17:59 -0.12
Joel Kiviranta L 0 0 0 4 0 -1 10:39 -0.15
Keaton Middleton D 0 0 1 4 0 -2 9:41 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mackenzie Blackwood W 3 2 1 .667 16:12 -0.55
Scott Wedgewood — 18 14 4 .778 41:27 -1.60