National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
NY Rangers 5, Buffalo 1
When: 7:00 PM ET, Saturday, March 24, 2018
Where: Madison Square Garden, New York, New York
Referees: Dave Jackson, Kendrick Nicholson
Linesmen: Bevan Mills, Greg Devorski
Attendance: 18006
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Buffalo 0011
NY Rangers 2305
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
16:29 - Rangers Chris Kreider (EV) Assists: Mika Zibanejad , Jesper Fast
18:02 - Rangers Jimmy Vesey (EV) Assists: Mats Zuccarello
Penalties
None.
2nd Period
Scoring
3:59 - Rangers Neal Pionk (EV) Assists: Jimmy Vesey , Kevin Hayes
8:45 - Rangers Mika Zibanejad (PP) Assists: Chris Kreider , Neal Pionk
14:47 - Rangers Jimmy Vesey (PP) Assists: Ryan Spooner , Kevin Hayes
Penalties
8:23 - Sabres Jordan Nolan (2) Holding
 9:17 - Sabres Marco Scandella (5) Fighting
 9:17 - Rangers Peter Holland (5) Fighting
 10:25 - Rangers Chris Kreider (2) Holding
 13:28 - Sabres Jack Eichel (2) Slashing
3rd Period
Scoring
15:26 - Sabres Sam Reinhart (PP) Assists: Kyle Okposo , Ryan O'Reilly
Penalties
4:50 - Rangers Ryan Sproul (2) Hooking
 14:13 - Rangers Mika Zibanejad (2) Tripping
 15:33 - Sabres Jordan Nolan (2) Hooking
Buffalo Sabres
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Linus Ullmark G 0 0 0 0 0 31:15 22:43 5:13 3:19 0 0 - - - - -
Robin Lehner G 0 0 0 0 0 28:45 28:23 0:00 0:22 0 0 - - - - -
Josh Gorges D 0 0 0 E 0 1 27 17:34 16:03 0:00 1:31 0 0 5 2 - - -
Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 -1 5 2 26 18:45 15:58 1:06 1:41 0 0 - - - - -
Casey Nelson D 0 0 0 -3 0 2 27 19:40 17:54 0:40 1:06 0 0 - 2 - - -
Nicholas Baptiste RW 0 0 0 E 0 3 19 12:27 10:40 1:20 0:27 0 0 1 - - - -
Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 -2 2 4 22 19:16 14:43 3:53 0:40 0 0 3 2 5 5 50
Jordan Nolan LW 0 0 0 E 4 2 21 13:05 13:05 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 1 - - -
Scott Wilson C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 20 13:24 12:15 0:00 1:09 0 0 1 - - - -
Kyle Okposo RW 0 1 1 -2 0 1 21 17:02 14:21 2:41 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Johan Larsson C 0 0 0 E 0 2 23 15:23 13:54 0:00 1:29 0 0 2 1 11 5 69
Sam Reinhart C 1 0 1 -1 0 4 20 16:12 13:31 2:41 0:00 1 0 2 1 - - -
Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 22 16:05 14:19 0:44 1:02 0 0 1 - - - -
Jason Pominville RW 0 0 0 E 0 4 20 13:56 12:12 1:44 0:00 0 0 1 - 1 0 100
Brendan Guhle D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 26 18:21 16:28 1:26 0:27 0 0 - - - - -
Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -1 0 5 30 25:34 18:58 4:01 2:35 0 0 - - - - -
Benoit Pouliot LW 0 0 0 E 0 2 18 12:47 10:30 1:16 1:01 0 0 - - - - -
Evan Rodrigues LW 0 0 0 E 0 2 21 13:30 11:43 1:20 0:27 0 0 - - 7 5 58
Ryan O'Reilly C 0 1 1 -1 0 5 22 15:53 12:05 2:41 1:07 0 0 - - 8 10 44
Victor Antipin D 0 0 0 E 0 1 28 17:25 16:51 0:32 0:02 0 0 - 1 - - -
New York Rangers
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Ondrej Pavelec G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Alexandar Georgiev G 0 0 0 0 0 59:57 51:03 3:41 5:13 0 0 - - - - -
Cody McLeod LW 0 0 0 E 0 0 18 10:00 10:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Peter Holland C 0 0 0 E 5 1 17 11:15 10:55 0:00 0:20 0 0 1 1 4 7 36
Kevin Hayes RW 0 2 2 +2 0 1 25 18:37 13:28 1:49 3:20 0 0 - - 7 7 50
Jesper Fast RW 0 1 1 +1 0 4 21 13:51 11:31 0:00 2:20 0 0 2 - 0 1 0
Marc Staal D 0 0 0 +1 0 0 28 21:32 18:14 0:00 3:18 0 0 - 1 - - -
Chris Kreider LW 1 1 2 +1 2 2 22 13:14 11:22 1:52 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Ryan Spooner C 0 1 1 E 0 1 22 17:54 16:01 1:49 0:04 0 0 2 - 6 6 50
Ryan Sproul D 0 0 0 +2 2 0 24 14:25 14:25 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Jimmy Vesey LW 2 1 3 +2 0 3 20 15:53 14:04 1:49 0:00 1 0 - - - - -
Paul Carey C 0 0 0 E 0 0 18 11:48 10:28 0:00 1:20 0 0 1 1 - - -
Mats Zuccarello RW 0 1 1 +2 0 2 22 16:35 13:40 1:26 1:29 0 0 - 1 0 1 0
Neal Pionk D 1 1 2 +1 0 3 31 23:24 18:02 2:04 3:18 0 0 2 1 - - -
Rob O'Gara D 0 0 0 E 0 0 26 19:56 18:01 0:00 1:55 0 0 - 1 - - -
John Gilmour D 0 0 0 E 0 1 21 14:36 14:13 0:23 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Brady Skjei D 0 0 0 +2 0 0 30 22:58 19:26 1:37 1:55 0 0 1 - - - -
Pavel Buchnevich RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 21 17:03 15:11 1:52 0:00 0 0 1 - 0 2 0
Vladislav Namestnikov C 0 0 0 E 0 0 21 16:10 14:14 1:52 0:04 0 0 3 - - - -
Mika Zibanejad C 1 1 2 +1 2 4 25 15:39 12:18 1:52 1:29 1 0 - 1 8 8 50
Goaltending
Buffalo
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Robin Lehner L (14-26-9) 12 8 4 .667 0 28:45
Linus Ullmark 11 10 1 .909 0 31:15
NY Rangers
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Alexandar Georgiev W (4-3-1) 44 43 1 .977 0 59:57