Buffalo hoping to rebound from a 6-5 overtime loss to Pittsburgh on Wednesday
10/17/24 at 7:00 pm at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, OH
Record
Buffalo – 1-3-1 | 3 points – 7th place in Atlantic Division
Columbus – 1-2-0 | 2 points – 8th place in Metropolitan Division
Special Teams
Buffalo
Power Play – 0.0% (30th)
Penalty Kill – 72.2% (22nd)
Columbus
Power Play – 25.0% (T-12th)
Penalty Kill - 70.0% (T-23rd)
Top Scorers
Buffalo
Alex Tuch: 5 GP, 2 G, 4 A, 6 PTS
JJ Peterka 3 GP, 2 G, 1 A, 3 PTS
Tage Thompson: 5 GP, 3 G, 0 A, 3 PTS
Columbus
Yegor Chinakhov: 3 GP, 1 G, 4 A, 5 PTS
Kent Johnson: 3 GP, 2 G, 2 A, 4 PTS
Sean Monahan: 3 GP, 2 G, 2 A, 4 PTS
Starting Goalies
Buffalo – Devon Levi (1-1-0, 2.57 GAA, .919 save %)
Columbus – Daniil Tarasov (1-0-0, 4.00 GAA, .867 save %)
Line Combinations and Pairings
Forwards
JJ Peterka-Tage Thompson-Alex Tuch
Zach Benson-Dylan Cozens-Jack Quinn
Jason Zucker-Ryan McLeod-Jordan Greenway
Beck Malenstyn-Peyton Krebs-Sam Lafferty
Ex. Jiri Kulich
Defense
Rasmus Dahlin-Henri Jokiharju
Bowen Byram-Owen Power
Mattias Samuelsson-Connor Clifton
Ex. Dennis Gilbert, Jacob Bryson
Goaltenders
Devon Levi
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
Injuries
Nicolas Aube-Kubel (IR - Lower Body)
Notes
Buffalo has earned a win in each of its last two games against Columbus and the Sabres are riding a three-game road winning streak against the Blue Jackets. Buffalo has outscored Columbus by a score of 16-7 in the last three contests between the two teams in Columbus.
Alex Tuch is riding a four-game point streak (2+4) and a point in tonight’s game would give him his first point streak of five or more games since he registered a point in five straight games from April 2 to 11, 2024 (3+5). A point in tonight’s game would mark the second time in his career that Tuch has begun a season with at least seven points through his team’s first six games (2022-23, 6+1).
Jordan Greenway has notched one point in each of his last two games (1+1) and a point tonight would give him his first point streak of three or more games since he recorded a point in three consecutive games from April 26 to 29, 2022 with Minnesota (2+2). Henri Jokiharju has recorded one point in back-to-back games (1+1) and a point in tonight’s game would give him his first point streak of three or more games since he tallied at least one assist in three straight games from April 9 to 13, 2024 (0+4).
Tage Thompson has registered one goal in two consecutive games and a goal in tonight’s game would give him his first goal streak of three or more games since he notched one goal in three straight games from April 2 to 7, 2024 (3+3).
In his last two games, Jason Zucker has tallied three assists, including at least one in each game in that span.
Ryan McLeod has recorded one point in each of his last two games (1+1). A point in tonight’s game would give McLeod a point streak of three or more games for the first time since he registered at least one point in three straight games from Dec. 21 to 28, 2023 with Edmonton (4+2).
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