Top Cheddar 2026-27

Saturday, February 28, 2026 · Benchmark International Arena

Sabres 6 at Lightning 2

Final

Three Stars

D 98OVR Rasmus Dahlin Sabres First Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG C 89OVR Josh Norris Sabres Second Star 2G · 2 SOG D 67OVR Zach Metsa Sabres Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:25 Rasmus Dahlin (12) Owen Power (14) · Wrist BUF 1 – 0 TBL
  2. 6:15 Josh Norris (7) Josh Doan (22), Zach Metsa (2) · Wrist BUF 2 – 0 TBL
  3. 8:18 Josh Norris (8) Bowen Byram (21), Zach Benson (20) · Tip-in BUF 3 – 0 TBL
  4. 15:06 Tage Thompson (32) Peyton Krebs (20), Rasmus Dahlin (38) · Wrist BUF 4 – 0 TBL

2nd Period

  1. 1:54 Zach Metsa (2) Unassisted · Wrist BUF 5 – 0 TBL
  2. 16:03 Dominic James (7) Oliver Bjorkstrand (18), Victor Hedman (14) · Wrist BUF 5 – 1 TBL

3rd Period

  1. 3:43 Alex Tuch (24) PPG Rasmus Dahlin (39), Jack Quinn (26) · Wrist BUF 6 – 1 TBL
  2. 5:27 Victor Hedman (1) Darren Raddysh (37) · Slap BUF 6 – 2 TBL

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rasmus Dahlin D 1 2 2 0 0 +2 24:32 2.15
Josh Norris C 2 0 2 0 0 +2 15:03 1.90
Zach Metsa D 1 1 3 0 2 +2 13:08 1.90
Bowen Byram D 0 1 4 0 2 +2 22:45 1.33
Owen Power D 0 1 4 0 0 +2 19:59 1.13
Jack Quinn R 0 1 2 1 0 +2 14:21 1.08
Josh Doan R 0 1 2 1 1 +2 16:08 1.08
Tage Thompson C 1 0 6 0 0 -1 16:00 1.05
Alex Tuch R 1 0 5 1 0 -1 18:15 0.83
Zach Benson L 0 1 0 2 0 +1 13:39 0.63
Peyton Krebs C 0 1 0 5 0 -1 10:59 0.48
Jason Zucker L 0 0 1 0 1 +2 12:05 0.38
Ryan McLeod C 0 0 2 0 1 +1 20:21 0.35
Noah Ostlund C 0 0 0 1 2 +1 14:46 0.20
Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 1 4 2 0 12:26 0.18
Tyson Kozak C 0 0 0 0 1 +1 13:04 0.10
Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 1 1 2 -1 24:08 -0.12
Michael Kesselring D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 8:40 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 38 36 2 .947 59:41 2.10

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Victor Hedman D 1 1 2 1 1 +1 16:53 1.58
Darren Raddysh D 0 1 3 1 0 +1 21:18 0.90
Dominic James C 1 0 1 2 0 0 13:06 0.83
Oliver Bjorkstrand R 0 1 4 2 0 -1 16:24 0.83
Brandon Hagel L 0 0 8 0 1 -1 21:05 0.30
Nikita Kucherov R 0 0 4 0 0 -1 20:11 0.10
Pontus Holmberg R 0 0 1 1 0 0 13:52 0.08
Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 3 3 0 -1 15:03 0.07
Gage Goncalves C 0 0 2 3 0 -1 8:17 0.00
J.J. Moser D 0 0 2 1 1 -1 15:46 0.00
Emil Lilleberg D 0 0 3 3 0 -1 16:45 -0.03
Brayden Point C 0 0 0 0 1 0 17:52 -0.05
Erik Cernak D 0 0 0 1 1 -1 14:39 -0.05
Yanni Gourde C 0 0 1 5 0 -1 15:59 -0.13
Anthony Cirelli C 0 0 1 2 0 -2 14:01 -0.43
Ryan McDonagh D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 16:16 -0.45
Charle-Edouard D'Astous D 0 0 0 3 0 -2 15:50 -0.55
Jake Guentzel C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 13:02 -1.13
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jonas Johansson — 21 20 1 .952 38:06 1.25
Andrei Vasilevskiy L 14 9 5 .643 21:54 -2.85