Sports Betting Stats

NHL MATCHUP REPORT

March 8, 2026, 6:00 | KeyBank Center

Tampa Bay Lightning (38-17-4) VS Buffalo Sabres (36-19-6)

ODDS

	Bet365	5Dimes	BOL	bodog	pin
Moneyline
Spread
Total	o u	o u	o u	o u	o u

SMART CHART

TB	NAME	BUF
3.56	OFFENSE	3.43
2.68	DEFENSE	3.00
21.51	POWER PLAY PERCENTAGES	19.89
82.98	PENALTY KILLS PERCENTAGES	82.93
28.41	SHOTS FOR	27.92
26.64	SHOTS AGAINST	30.05
0.88	DIFFERENTIAL	0.43

RECENT FORM

Team	Record	Money	Offense	Defense	Fave	Dog	O/U
Tampa Bay	38-17-4	$504	3.56	2.68	30-17	7-3	28-27-4
Buffalo	36-19-6	$1142	3.43	3.00	16-9	17-13	29-29-3

TEAM RECORDS

Tampa Bay Lightning

Name	Record	Home	Away	Fave	Dog	O/U
Overall	38-17-4	19-10	19-7-4	30-17-3	7-3	28-27-4
Last 10	6-4	6-1	0-3	6-3	0-1	6-2-2
vs Div	10-4-1	5-3	5-1-1	8-4-1	1-0	11-3-1
vs WEST	18-5-1	10-3	8-2-1	14-4-1	4-1	8-15-1
vs EAST	20-12-3	9-7	11-5-3	16-10-2	3-2	20-12-3

Buffalo Sabres

Name	Record	Home	Away	Fave	Dog	O/U
Overall	36-19-6	18-8-3	18-11-3	16-9-3	17-13-3	29-29-3
Last 10	7-2-1	2-2	5-0-1	2-2	4-1-1	5-5
vs Div	13-4-3	6-2	7-2-3	2-2-1	10-2-2	11-7-2
vs WEST	14-7-2	7-3-2	7-4	9-2-1	5-4-1	10-12-1
vs EAST	22-12-4	11-5-1	11-7-3	7-4-2	12-6-2	19-17-2

SUPERGRID

Title	Stat	Rank	Stat	Rank
Away Team Overall Scoring vs Home Team Overall Defense	3.62	2	3.09	15
Away Team Away Scoring vs Home Team Home Defense	3.86	1	2.89	12
Away Team Road Powerplay vs Home Team Home Penalty Kill	24.39	8	82.28	10
Home Team Overall Scoring vs Away Team Overall Defense	3.42	7	2.55	2
Home Team Home Scoring vs Away Team Road Defense	3.61	5	2.46	1
Home Team Home Power Play vs Away Team Road Penalty Kill	22.22	10	84.62	6

HEAD TO HEAD SUMMARY

Team	Record	O/U	AVG	Shots	Power Play Goals	Power Play Percentage	Penalty Kill Percentage	Power Play Chances
Tampa Bay	4-3-3	5-4	3.30	28.70	5.00	16.67	71.88	30.00
Buffalo	6-3-1	5-4	3.70	30.60	9.00	28.12	83.33	32.00

HEAD TO HEAD DETAIL

Date	Away	Away Score	Home	Home Score	Line	Total	O/U	Away Shots	Home Shots	Away Power Play Goals	Home Power Play Goals	Away Power Plays	Home Power Plays	Away PP%	Home PP%	Away PK%	Home PK%
Feb 28, 2026	BUF	6	TB	2	-250	6.5	O	35	38	1	0	5	3	20	0	100	80
Feb 3, 2026	BUF	3	TB	4	-210	6.5	O	26	35	1	1	3	2	33.3	50	50	66.7
Apr 13, 2025	BUF	4	TB	7	-260	6.5	O	25	31	1	1	2	2	50	50	50	50
Apr 5, 2025	TB	2	BUF	3	178	6.5	U	24	38	0	1	3	3	0	33.3	66.7	100
Mar 6, 2025	BUF	5	TB	6	-250	6.5	O	33	26	1	1	4	3	25	33.3	66.7	75
Apr 15, 2024	BUF	4	TB	2	-170	6	P	34	33	0	0	2	2	0	0	100	100
Feb 29, 2024	BUF	3	TB	2	-150	6.5	U	23	23	2	1	3	3	66.7	33.3	66.7	33.3
Jan 20, 2024	TB	3	BUF	1	-110	6.5	U	16	27	0	0	3	2	0	0	100	100
Oct 17, 2023	TB	2	BUF	3	-125	7	U	25	31	0	0	4	3	0	0	100	100
Mar 4, 2023	TB	3	BUF	5	140	7	O	36	34	1	2	5	5	20	40	60	80

BETTING ODDS TRENDS

Buffalo Sabres

Tampa Bay Lightning

TEAM LAST 5 GAMES

Tampa Bay Lightning

Date	Opponent	Score	Result	Line	Shots	Shots Against	Power Play	Penalty Kill	Opposing Goalie	Location
Mar 3, 2026	MIN	1-5	L	-140	25	22	0/3	4/5	Filip Gustavsson	A
Feb 28, 2026	BUF	2-6	L	-250	38	35	0/3	4/5	Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen	H
Feb 26, 2026	CAR	4-5	L	120	28	33	1/2	1/2	Brandon Bussi	A
Feb 25, 2026	TOR	4-2	W	-225	36	34	0/4	1/2	Anthony Stolarz	H
Feb 5, 2026	FLA	6-1	W	-220	28	34	1/4	5/6	Daniil Tarasov	H

Buffalo Sabres

Date	Opponent	Score	Result	Line	Shots	Shots Against	Power Play	Penalty Kill	Opposing Goalie	Location
Mar 3, 2026	VGK	3-2	W	-140	28	29	0/1	1/1	Akira Schmid	H
Feb 28, 2026	TB	6-2	W	200	35	38	1/5	3/3	Andrei Vasilevskiy	A
Feb 27, 2026	FLA	3-2	W	-105	39	29	1/3	3/4	Daniil Tarasov	A
Feb 25, 2026	NJ	2-1	W	-110	30	28	0/3	2/2	Jake Allen	A
Feb 5, 2026	PIT	2-5	L	-125	27	32	1/5	3/3	Arturs Silovs	H

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