National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Minnesota 6, Buffalo 2
When: 8:00 PM ET, Thursday, January 4, 2018
Where: Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Referees: Frederic L'Ecuyer, Chris Lee
Linesmen: Darren Gibbs, Matt MacPherson
Attendance: 19017
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Buffalo 0022
Minnesota 3306
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
1:09 - Wild Nino Niederreiter (EV) Assists: Mikael Granlund , Mikko Koivu
2:15 - Wild Daniel Winnik (EV) Assists: Nate Prosser , Marcus Foligno
13:53 - Wild Nino Niederreiter (PP) Assists: Charlie Coyle , Jared Spurgeon
Penalties
10:16 - Sabres Rasmus Ristolainen (5) Interference
 10:16 - Sabres Rasmus Ristolainen (10) Game misconduct
 15:52 - Sabres Sam Reinhart (2) High sticking
2nd Period
Scoring
4:02 - Wild Nino Niederreiter (EV) Assists: Mikael Granlund , Mikko Koivu
13:07 - Wild Mikko Koivu (EV) Assists: Mikael Granlund , Jonas Brodin
19:15 - Wild Charlie Coyle (EV) Assists: Zach Parise , Joel Eriksson Ek
Penalties
6:54 - Wild Mikael Granlund (2) Holding
3rd Period
Scoring
1:54 - Sabres Sam Reinhart (EV) Assists: Zach Bogosian , Jake McCabe
18:59 - Sabres Evander Kane (EV) Assists: Marco Scandella , Jason Pominville
Penalties
7:08 - Wild Gustav Olofsson (2) Hooking
 11:06 - Wild Jason Zucker (2) Goaltender interference
 13:34 - Wild Marcus Foligno (10) Misconduct
 13:34 - Sabres Jordan Nolan (10) Misconduct
Buffalo Sabres
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Chad Johnson G 0 0 0 0 0 20:00 16:00 4:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Robin Lehner G 0 0 0 0 0 40:00 31:00 2:00 7:00 0 0 - - - - -
Marco Scandella D 0 1 1 E 0 3 31 24:06 18:03 3:11 2:52 0 0 2 1 - - -
Evander Kane LW 1 0 1 E 0 3 18 17:45 13:40 2:33 1:32 0 0 - 1 1 0 100
Jacob Josefson C 0 0 0 E 0 0 17 14:07 11:33 0:00 2:34 0 0 - 2 7 4 64
Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 -2 0 5 20 18:41 13:06 3:51 1:44 0 0 - - 5 4 56
Jordan Nolan LW 0 0 0 -1 10 0 13 9:46 9:46 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Jake McCabe D 0 1 1 E 0 3 29 20:38 16:21 0:27 3:50 0 0 4 1 - - -
Kyle Okposo RW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 18 15:45 11:47 3:27 0:31 0 0 1 - - - -
Johan Larsson C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 18 15:00 12:15 0:00 2:45 0 0 3 - 1 0 100
Sam Reinhart C 1 0 1 -1 2 3 18 16:17 12:55 3:22 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 19 13:57 12:23 0:00 1:34 0 0 1 1 - - -
Jason Pominville RW 0 1 1 E 0 1 16 13:57 11:19 2:38 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Justin Falk D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 26 19:55 15:51 0:00 4:04 0 0 4 3 - - -
Zach Bogosian D 0 1 1 -1 0 3 32 25:32 19:29 2:49 3:14 0 0 3 1 - - -
Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -1 15 3 6 5:43 5:43 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Benoit Pouliot LW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 16 12:18 9:55 0:00 2:23 0 0 1 - 0 1 0
Evan Rodrigues LW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 17 13:13 10:26 2:09 0:38 0 0 - 1 3 5 38
Nathan Beaulieu D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 25 20:24 18:33 1:51 0:00 0 0 - 2 - - -
Ryan O'Reilly C 0 0 0 E 0 1 17 15:56 11:55 3:42 0:19 0 0 - - 6 7 46
Minnesota Wild
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Alex Stalock G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Devan Dubnyk G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00 47:00 7:00 6:00 0 0 - - - - -
Charlie Coyle C 1 1 2 +1 0 4 20 15:41 12:20 1:40 1:41 0 0 - - 2 5 29
Matt Cullen C 0 0 0 +1 0 1 16 14:30 11:21 1:03 2:06 0 0 - 1 8 6 57
Mikko Koivu C 1 2 3 +3 0 2 16 11:23 9:26 0:00 1:57 0 0 - - 2 5 29
Zach Parise LW 0 1 1 E 0 3 19 17:30 11:33 3:57 2:00 0 0 - - - - -
Eric Staal C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 20 17:53 13:40 3:57 0:16 0 0 - - 6 4 60
Joel Eriksson Ek LW 0 1 1 +1 0 2 18 15:07 13:39 0:34 0:54 0 0 2 3 2 1 67
Jason Zucker LW 0 0 0 -2 2 2 21 16:43 12:19 4:17 0:07 0 0 - - - - -
Marcus Foligno LW 0 1 1 +1 10 0 13 11:15 10:26 0:49 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Ryan Suter D 0 0 0 E 0 0 23 21:34 15:39 2:42 3:13 0 0 - - - - -
Nino Niederreiter RW 3 0 3 +3 0 4 17 12:03 10:14 1:40 0:09 1 0 - - - - -
Gustav Olofsson D 0 0 0 +1 2 0 20 16:09 15:12 0:20 0:37 0 0 2 - - - -
Matt Dumba D 0 0 0 +2 0 2 23 22:04 15:58 3:56 2:10 0 0 2 - - - -
Jonas Brodin D 0 1 1 +2 0 1 24 22:26 16:14 4:02 2:10 0 0 - 1 - - -
Daniel Winnik LW 1 0 1 +1 0 1 17 13:55 11:31 0:49 1:35 0 0 - - - - -
Nate Prosser D 0 1 1 +1 0 0 20 16:56 15:44 0:20 0:52 0 0 - 2 - - -
Jared Spurgeon D 0 1 1 E 0 0 22 21:21 15:43 2:40 2:58 0 0 1 1 - - -
Tyler Ennis LW 0 0 0 -1 0 3 16 14:44 14:10 0:34 0:00 0 0 - - 0 1 0
Mikael Granlund RW 0 3 3 +3 2 0 19 12:46 9:51 1:40 1:15 0 0 - - 1 1 50
Goaltending
Buffalo
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Robin Lehner L (12-22-8) 17 11 6 .647 0 40:00
Chad Johnson 10 10 0 1.000 0 20:00
Minnesota
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Devan Dubnyk W (24-11-5) 31 29 2 .935 0 60:00