Top Cheddar 2026-27

Sunday, March 8, 2026 · KeyBank Center

Lightning 7 at Sabres 8

Final

Three Stars

R 83OVR Josh Doan Sabres First Star 2G · 4 SOG L 87OVR Jason Zucker Sabres Second Star 2G · 1A · 6 SOG C 96OVR Tage Thompson Sabres Third Star 4A · 3 SOG · 4 HIT

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 8:26 Josh Doan (20) PPG Tage Thompson (33), Bowen Byram (23) · Wrist TBL 0 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 2:15 Jason Zucker (18) PPG Rasmus Dahlin (43), Tage Thompson (34) · Snap TBL 0 – 2 BUF
  2. 5:10 Alex Tuch (26) PPG Tage Thompson (35), Noah Ostlund (14) · Tip-in TBL 0 – 3 BUF
  3. 7:55 Corey Perry (13) Nikita Kucherov (69), Darren Raddysh (39) · Backhand TBL 1 – 3 BUF
  4. 11:07 Alex Tuch (27) SHG Bowen Byram (24) · Backhand TBL 1 – 4 BUF
  5. 12:26 Nikita Kucherov (33) PPG Darren Raddysh (40) · Wrist TBL 2 – 4 BUF
  6. 14:46 Zemgus Girgensons (8) Yanni Gourde (16), J.J. Moser (16) · Snap TBL 3 – 4 BUF
  7. 17:37 J.J. Moser (6) Conor Geekie (2) · Wrist TBL 4 – 4 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 0:59 Nikita Kucherov (34) Brandon Hagel (29), J.J. Moser (17) · Snap TBL 5 – 4 BUF
  2. 5:46 Brayden Point (16) Unassisted TBL 6 – 4 BUF
  3. 6:12 Sam Carrick (5) Zach Benson (21), Michael Kesselring (2) · Wrist TBL 6 – 5 BUF
  4. 9:48 Brandon Hagel (30) Anthony Cirelli (23), Darren Raddysh (41) · Wrist TBL 7 – 5 BUF
  5. 11:03 Rasmus Dahlin (13) Tage Thompson (36), Bowen Byram (25) · Wrist TBL 7 – 6 BUF
  6. 14:29 Jason Zucker (19) Ryan McLeod (33) · Backhand TBL 7 – 7 BUF
  7. 15:43 Josh Doan (21) PPG Jason Zucker (15), Rasmus Dahlin (44) · Wrist TBL 7 – 8 BUF

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
J.J. Moser D 1 2 3 2 0 +2 26:17 2.53
Nikita Kucherov R 2 1 5 5 0 +1 19:15 2.45
Darren Raddysh D 0 3 4 1 1 +2 23:13 1.95
Brandon Hagel L 1 1 2 0 1 +1 16:42 0.90
Brayden Point C 1 0 1 1 1 0 17:13 0.88
Yanni Gourde C 0 1 2 2 0 +1 18:39 0.77
Conor Geekie C 0 1 1 6 0 0 7:33 0.75
Corey Perry R 1 0 1 0 0 +2 8:54 0.70
Zemgus Girgensons C 1 0 1 4 0 0 15:48 0.68
Anthony Cirelli C 0 1 1 4 0 +1 18:55 0.60
Victor Hedman D 0 0 3 1 0 +2 20:07 0.52
Oliver Bjorkstrand R 0 0 2 2 0 0 14:02 0.10
Pontus Holmberg R 0 0 0 4 0 0 13:17 0.00
Ryan McDonagh D 0 0 0 0 0 0 20:41 -0.10
Jake Guentzel C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 17:44 -0.13
Scott Sabourin R 0 0 0 4 0 0 4:17 -0.43
Erik Cernak D 0 0 0 0 3 0 6:47 -0.52
Charle-Edouard D'Astous D 0 0 1 4 0 -1 18:37 -0.97
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jonas Johansson L 42 34 8 .810 58:54 -2.60

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jason Zucker L 2 1 6 0 1 +1 16:42 2.68
Tage Thompson C 0 4 3 4 1 -1 19:39 2.63
Rasmus Dahlin D 1 2 1 0 1 +2 26:16 2.05
Alex Tuch R 2 0 4 3 2 0 18:54 1.90
Bowen Byram D 0 3 7 1 0 0 20:12 1.55
Josh Doan R 2 0 4 2 0 -2 18:25 1.50
Ryan McLeod C 0 1 2 1 1 +2 21:03 1.03
Zach Benson L 0 1 1 2 0 +1 14:15 0.85
Noah Ostlund C 0 1 2 1 0 -1 16:34 0.48
Sam Carrick C 1 0 3 3 0 -2 6:03 0.35
Michael Kesselring D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 6:03 0.28
Jack Quinn R 0 0 3 4 0 0 15:19 0.18
Zach Metsa D 0 0 0 0 2 0 8:55 0.05
Josh Norris C 0 0 1 1 1 -1 17:55 -0.02
Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 3 2 3 -3 24:57 -0.27
Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 3 0 -1 6:03 -0.58
Owen Power D 0 0 0 0 3 -4 27:08 -0.65
Peyton Krebs C 0 0 1 0 0 -3 8:46 -0.80
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 28 22 7 .786 59:21 -3.05