Sabres hoping to bounce back from loss to Boston against Metro bottom dweller
12/30/23 – 5 pm EST at Key Bank Center in Buffalo, NY
Record
Buffalo – 14-18-4 | 32 points – 7th place in Atlantic Division
Columbus – 12-18-7 | 31 points – 8th place in Metropolitan Division
Special Teams
Buffalo
Power Play – 13.3% (T-26th)
Penalty Kill - 78.3% (23rd)
Columbus
Power Play – 15.5% (25th)
Penalty Kill - 80.8% (13th)
Top Scorers
Buffalo
Casey Mittelstadt: 36 GP, 9 G, 21 A, 30 PTS
Rasmus Dahlin: 35 GP, 10 G, 19 A, 29 PTS
Jeff Skinner: 33 GP, 14 G, 11 A, 25 PTS
Columbus
Zach Werenski: 34 GP, 1 G, 24 A, 25 PTS (Injured)
Johnny Gaudreau: 37 GP, 7 G, 18 A, 25 PTS
Adam Fantilli: 37 GP, 10 G, 12 A, 22 PTS
Starting Goalies
Buffalo – Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (6-8-2, 3.21 GAA, .892 save %)
Columbus – Daniil Tarasov (1-2-0, 4.39 GAA, .852 save %)
Line Combinations and Pairings
Buffalo
Forwards
Jeff Skinner-Tage Thompson-Alex Tuch
JJ Peterka-Dylan Cozens-Jack Quinn
Jordan Greenway-Casey Mittelstadt-Zach Benson
Zemgus Girgensons-Peyton Krebs-Kyle Okposo
Ex. Victor Olofsson, Eric Robinson
Defense
Rasmus Dahlin-Mattias Samuelsson
Owen Power–Connor Clifton
Ryan Johnson - Erik Johnson
Ex. Henri Jokiharju
Goaltenders
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
Devon Levi
Eric Comrie
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