Buffalo Sabres – Tampa Bay Lightning
4/5/25 – 7:00pm EST at Key Bank Center, Buffalo, NY
Record
Buffalo – 32-36-6 | 70 points – 7th place in the Atlantic Division
Tampa Bay – 44-26-5 | 93 points – 2nd place in the Atlantic DivisionT
Special Teams
Buffalo
Power Play – 18.3% (26th)
Penalty Kill – 76.3% (23rd)
Tampa Bay
Power Play – 25.1% (7th)
Penalty Kill – 82.1% (5th)
Top Scorers
Buffalo
Tage Thompson: 68 GP, 39 G, 27 A, 66 PTS
JJ Peterka: 69 GP, 23 G, 37 A, 60 PTS
Rasmus Dahlin: 65 GP, 14 G, 45 A, 59 PTS
Tampa Bay
Nikita Kucherov: 71 GP, 33 G, 78 A, 111 PTS
Brandon Hagel: 75 GP, 34 G, 48 A, 82 PTS
Brayden Point: 70 GP, 38 G, 37 A, 75 PTS
Starting Goalies
Buffalo – James Reimer (7-6-2, 2.75 GAA, .905 save %)
Tampa Bay – Andrei Vasilevskiy (36-20-3, 2.16 GAA, .922 save %)
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Line Combinations and Pairings
Forwards
Zach Benson - Jiri Kulich - Tage Thompson
JJ Peterka - Ryan McLeod - Jack Quinn
Jason Zucker– Peyton Krebs - Alex Tuch
Beck Malenstyn – Noah Ostlund – Sam Lafferty
Defense
Mattias Samuelsson – Rasmus Dahlin
Owen Power - Jacob Bernard-Docker
Bowen Byram - Connor Clifton
Ex. Jacob Bryson
Goaltenders
James Reimer
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
Injuries
Josh Norris (day-to-day – mid-body)
Jordan Greenway (day-to-day – unknown)
Tyson Kozak (week-to-week – mid-body)
Notes
The Sabres have earned a win in five of their last six games. Buffalo has registered 32 goals in its last six games (5.33 goals per game) and a five-goal performance tonight would mark the highest goal total the Sabres have had in any seven-game span since they recorded 38 goals from Oct. 14 to 28, 2006.
The Sabres have earned at least one point in six of their last eight meetings with the Lightning (5-2-1).
In his last 14 games, Ryan McLeod has posted 17 points (5+12) and has recorded at least one point in three straight games.
JJ Peterka has tallied 28 points (13+15) in his last 25 games and he has registered 16 points (6+10) in his last 14 games.
Tage Thompson has posted 41 points (23+18) in his last 39 games, including six points (5+1) in his last six games.
Peyton Krebs is riding a career-best five-game point streak and he has tallied six points (3+3) in that span.
Jack Quinn has recorded at least one point in five consecutive games and he has tallied nine points (4+5) in that span.
In his last six games, Alex Tuch has posted nine points (6+3), including at least one point in four straight games. Tuch has recorded at least one goal in four straight games and a goal tonight would mark the longest goal streak of his career.
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