The meeting took place at the Keebank Center stadium in Buffalo and ended in a shootout with a score of 3: 2.

Thus, Panarin scored 159 goals in 417 NHL games and finished 27th in goals in the league among Russian players, surpassing the result of the former Buffalo striker Maxim Afinogenov.

Earlier it was reported that the Russian goalkeeper "Dallas Stars" Anton Khudobin got into the NHL coronavirus protocol.