Zach Metsa with a Goal vs. Tampa Bay Lightning

Zach Metsa (Buffalo Sabres) with a Goal vs. Tampa Bay Lightning, 02/28/2026

Video Transcript

Straight line right to the net, right?

Yep.

Power turns, he shoots, and that one is stopped by Vasilevskiy with traffic in front.

Now Stewart’s without a stick, it is broken, and here’s a chance for Metsa.

He scores.

Zach Metsa, the defenseman.

5-0 Buffalo.

Yeah, that was a pizza served right up the middle of the ice.

I, I didn’t get a good look ’cause it’s on the near side.

I believe it was Cirelli on his backhand inside the blue line.

Yeah, it was Cirelli.

So he’s trying to make a diagonal cross-ice pass, doesn’t get much on it.

Metsa and the whole team playing really well, really feeling it now.

And you know you’re feeling it when you’re making a little pearl and rag move, and then hitting the top cheese right off the bat.

So another dagger from Buffalo.

And that is gonna be end the night for Andrei Vasilevskiy, who came into this game with an 18-game point streak.