Minnesota at Buffalo — NHL January 17, 2026

5 – 4

Final OT

KeyBank Center, Buffalo, NY

	1	2	3	OT	T
MIN	2	2	0	1	5
BUF	1	3	0	0	4

MIN 35 shots on goal 24 BUF

Recap

Three stars

1st star

Q. Hughes

1 goal

1 assist

+1 rating

2nd star

M. Zuccarello

1 goal

1 assist

+1 rating

3rd star

J. Quinn

1 goal

1 assist

Closing line

Scoring

	1st Per	MIN	BUF
9:19	Marcus Foligno 3 (Assists: Vladimir Tarasenko 14, Ben Jones 1)	1	0
10:05	Ryan McLeod 11 (Assists: Jack Quinn 16, Jason Zucker 12)	1	1
19:52	Ryan Hartman 13 (Assists: Quinn Hughes 37, Kirill Kaprizov 28)	2	1

	2nd Per	MIN	BUF
1:08	Vladimir Tarasenko 9 (Assists: Jared Spurgeon 10, Danila Yurov 11)	3	1
10:07	Peyton Krebs 4 (Assists: Mattias Samuelsson 16)	3	2
11:34	Jack Quinn 11 (Assists: Rasmus Dahlin 28, Jason Zucker 13)	3	3
16:07	Alex Tuch 17 (power-play) (Assists: Tage Thompson 25, Ryan McLeod 20)	3	4
17:04	Quinn Hughes 4 (Assists: Kirill Kaprizov 29, Mats Zuccarello 17)	4	4

	OT	MIN	BUF
1:46	Mats Zuccarello 6 (power-play) (Assists: Kirill Kaprizov 30, Filip Gustavsson 1)	5	4

Penalties

1st Per

3:10 Tage Thompson (Hooking - 2 min) drawn by Quinn Hughes
10:05 Michael Kesselring (Unsportsmanlike Conduct - 2 min) drawn by Marcus Foligno
10:05 Marcus Foligno (Unsportsmanlike Conduct - 2 min) drawn by Michael Kesselring
12:11 Marcus Foligno (Fighting - 5 min) drawn by Michael Kesselring
12:11 Michael Kesselring (Fighting - 5 min) drawn by Marcus Foligno
15:25 Quinn Hughes (Hooking - 2 min) drawn by Tage Thompson
16:26 Danila Yurov (Hooking - 2 min) drawn by Rasmus Dahlin