National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Vegas 3, Buffalo 1
Saturday, January 4, 2025 10:00 PM
When: 10:00 PM ET, Saturday, January 4, 2025
Where: T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada
Referees: Justin Kea, Garrett Rank
Linesmen: Brandon Gawryletz, Kiel Murchison
Attendance: 18111
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Buffalo 0011
Vegas 2013
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
4:53 - Golden Knights Tanner Laczynski (EV) Assists: Brett Howden , Zach Whitecloud
12:23 - Golden Knights Mark Stone (EV) Assists: Jack Eichel , Tanner Pearson
Penalties
None.
2nd Period
Scoring
No Scoring.
Penalties
8:03 - Golden Knights Tomas Hertl (2) Holding
 13:35 - Sabres Dylan Cozens (2) Holding
3rd Period
Scoring
7:44 - Golden Knights Jack Eichel (EV) Assists: Tanner Pearson , Noah Hanifin
17:42 - Sabres Jason Zucker (PP) Assists: Rasmus Dahlin , JJ Peterka
Penalties
13:13 - Sabres Alex Tuch (2) Boarding
 16:13 - Golden Knights Keegan Kolesar (2) High sticking
 19:16 - Golden Knights Adin Hill (2) Delay of game
Buffalo Sabres
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
James Reimer G 0 0 0 0 0 57:41
Bowen Byram D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 24:16
Dennis Gilbert D 0 0 0 E 0 0 8:38
Zach Benson LW 0 0 0 -1 0 2 12:24
Jason Zucker LW 1 0 1 -2 0 3 21:44
Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 12:55
Jiri Kulich C 0 0 0 E 0 0 14:37
Jack Quinn RW 0 0 0 E 0 2 15:04
Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 19:55
Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -2 2 2 19:25
Owen Power D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 23:44
Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 -2 0 3 25:28
Beck Malenstyn LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 10:16
Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 E 0 0 11:17
Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 -1 0 5 20:42
Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 E 0 1 13:01
JJ Peterka RW 0 1 1 -1 0 2 17:31
Alex Tuch RW 0 0 0 E 2 1 16:56
Nicolas Aube-Kubel RW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 10:26
Vegas Golden Knights
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Adin Hill G 0 0 0 2 0 60:00
Ilya Samsonov G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Zach Whitecloud D 0 1 1 +1 0 0 13:39
Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 +1 0 1 20:15
Alex Pietrangelo D 0 0 0 +1 0 4 25:37
Jack Eichel C 1 1 2 +2 0 7 21:08
Nicolas Hague D 0 0 0 +1 0 0 16:03
Noah Hanifin D 0 1 1 +2 0 2 23:16
Pavel Dorofeyev LW 0 0 0 E 0 5 18:11
Brett Howden C 0 1 1 +1 0 3 13:49
Cole Schwindt RW 0 0 0 E 0 0 8:24
Alexander Holtz RW 0 0 0 E 0 0 10:20
Shea Theodore D 0 0 0 E 0 2 18:16
Tanner Laczynski C 1 0 1 +1 0 1 11:08
Jonas Rondbjerg RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 7:45
Tomas Hertl C 0 0 0 E 2 20:08
Keegan Kolesar RW 0 0 0 +1 2 1 13:06
Mark Stone RW 1 0 1 +2 0 1 18:35
Tanner Pearson LW 0 2 2 +2 0 2 15:43
William Karlsson C 0 0 0 E 0 3 20:24
Goaltending
Buffalo
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
James Reimer L (1-5-1) 33 30 3 .909 0 57:41
Vegas
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Adin Hill W (17-6-2) 24 23 1 .958 2 60:00