Tage Thompson Stats

Thompson is listed at 6-foot-6 and 220 pounds, which makes him the only player that size to score 40 goals in an NHL season. He grew four inches in a single year at 16 and needed several seasons to rebuild his balance around the new frame.

His career total is 216 goals in 529 games. Three of them came with St. Louis and the rest with Buffalo, where he sits 12th on the franchise list.

The 2022-23 season. He scored 47 goals and 94 points in 78 games and finished sixth in the NHL in goals. He has three 40-goal years in total, which ties Danny Gare, Pat LaFontaine and Gilbert Perreault for second in Sabres history behind Rick Martin.

Yes. He scored five against Columbus on December 7, 2022 in a 9-4 win, with four of them in the first period. Dave Andreychuk in 1986 is the only other Sabre to score five in a game.

Yes. He scored three goals in six games for the United States at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics. The Americans beat Canada 2-1 in overtime in the final on February 22, 2026, their first men’s hockey gold since 1980.

He did. Thompson ended the final in overtime against Switzerland for a 1-0 win, giving the United States its first men’s world title since 1933. He had six goals in ten games at that tournament.

Thirteen, all of them in 2026. Buffalo ended a 14-season drought that spring and he put up 5 goals and 15 points, beating Boston in six before losing Game 7 to Montreal in overtime.

Seven years and $50 million, signed August 30, 2022. It runs from 2023-24 through 2029-30 at a cap hit of $7,142,857 and carries a modified no-trade clause.

Brent Thompson, a defenseman who played 121 NHL games for Los Angeles, Winnipeg and Phoenix before a long coaching career. He won an ECHL title in Alaska, ran Bridgeport in the AHL for most of a decade and is now an assistant with the Hershey Bears.