12/03/25 - 7:30pm at Xfinity Mobile Arena, Philadelphia, PA

Buffalo – 11-11-4 | - 26  points – 7th place in the Atlantic Division

Philadelphia  – 14-8-3 | - 31 points – 5th place in the Metropolitan Division

Special Teams

Buffalo

Power Play – 17.3% (19th)

Penalty Kill – 88.9% (2nd)

Philadelphia

Power Play – 17.1% (20th)

Penalty Kill - 82.1% (11th)

Top Scorers

Buffalo

Alex Tuch: 26 GP, 9 G, 14 A, 23 PTS 

Tage Thompson: 26 GP, 12 G, 10 A, 22 PTS 

Josh Doan: 26 GP, 8 G, 10 A, 18 PTS

Philadelphia

Trevor Zegras: 25 GP, 9 G, 16 A, 25 PTS 

Travis Konecny: 25 GP, 5 G, 15 A, 20 PTS 

Owen Tippett: 25 GP, 8 G, 9 A, 17 PTS

Starting Goalies

Buffalo – Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (4-3-1, 2.51 GAA, .899 Sv %)

Philadelphia –  Sam Ersson (4-4-2, 3.09 GAA, .859 Sv %) 

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Forwards

Zach Benson - Josh Norris - Tage Thompson - 

Jason Zucker - Ryan McLeod - Jack Quinn 

Josh Doan - Noah Ostlund - Alex Tuch 

Jordan Greenway - Peyton Krebs -  Beck Malenstyn

Ex. Josh Dunne

Defense

Mattias Samuelsson - Rasmus Dahlin

Bowen Byram - Conor Timmins 

Jacob Bryson - Owen Power 

Goaltenders

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen

Colten Ellis

Alex Lyon

Injuries

Justin Danforth (lower body, Oct. 18; injured reserve) 

Michael Kesselring (lower body, Nov. 17; injured reserve) 

Jiri Kulich (blood clot, Nov. 4; injured reserve) 

Notes

Tonight’s game marks the beginning of Buffalo’s first road trip of at least six games and 12 or more days since the team embarked on a seven-game, 12-day trip from March 1 to 12, 2011. 

The Sabres also played in six consecutive, uninterrupted road contests spanning 10 days from Jan. 14 to 24, 2012.  Buffalo played another consecutive road contest in that stretch on Jan. 31, 2012 at Montreal that would have extended the trip to 17 days. However, the road swing was interrupted by the 2012 NHL All-Star Game on Jan. 29, 2012. 

Tage Thompson has registered 10 points (6+4) in his last 10 games. 

Jack Quinn has tallied six points (3+3) in his last six games. 

In his last seven games, Jason Zucker has posted eight points (3+5). Zucker has recorded seven points (3+4) in six games since returning from an illness on Nov. 21. 

Alex Tuch has recorded one point in back-to-back games (1+1). A point in tonight’s game would give Tuch his third three-game point streak of the season. 

Josh Doan has notched three points (1+2) in his last two games. A point tonight would give Doan a three-game point streak, tied for the longest such streak of his career (four times). 

Rasmus Dahlin is expected to play tonight and he will surpass Henrik Tallinder (532 games played with Buffalo) and gain sole possession of 11th place on Buffalo’s all-time list for games played by a defenseman. Dahlin is seven games away from surpassing Jerry Korab (537 games played; 10th all-time) and moving into the top 10. 

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