Buffalo looking to bounce back from their worst loss of the season in New Jersey on Saturday
11/27/23 – 7 pm EST at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY
Record
Buffalo – 9-10-2 | 20 points – 6th place in Atlantic Division
New York – 15-3-1 | 31 points – 1st place in Metropolitan Division
Special Teams
Buffalo
Power Play – 16.4% (23rd)
Penalty Kill – 84.9% (9th)
New York
Power Play – 30.0% (T-3rd)
Penalty Kill – 85.7% (T-7th)
Top Scorers
Buffalo
Jeff Skinner: 21 GP, 10 G, 7 A, 17 PTS
Rasmus Dahlin: 21 GP, 4 G, 13 A, 17 PTS
Casey Mittelstadt: 21 GP, 3 G, 14 A, 17 PTS
New York
Artemi Panarin: 19 GP, 11 G, 18 A, 29 PTS
Chris Kreider: 19 GP, 13 G, 7 A, 20 PTS
Vincent Trocheck: 19 GP, 5 G, 11 A, 16 PTS
Starting Goalies
Buffalo – Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (5-3-1, 2.71 GAA, .914 sv %)
New York – Igor Shesterkin (8-3-0, 2.38 GAA, .923 sv%)
Line Combinations and Pairings
Buffalo (per Lance Lysowski of the Buffalo News)
Forwards
Jeff Skinner - Casey Mittelstadt - Alex Tuch
J-J Peterka - Dylan Cozens - Zach Benson
Isak Rosen - Tyson Jost - Victor Olofsson
Jiri Kulich - Peyton Krebs – Kyle Okposo
Defense
Rasmus Dahlin- Mattias Samuelsson
Owen Power- Ryan Johnson
Connor Clifton-Erik Johnson
Ex. Jacob Bryson, Henri Jokiharju
Goaltenders
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
Eric Comrie
Devon Levi
Injuries
Tage Thompson (IR - hand)
Jack Quinn (LTIR – Achilles)
Jordan Greenway (day-to-day – unknown)
Zemgus Girgensons (day-to-day – unknown)
New York
Forwards
Chris Kreider – Mika Zibanejad – Blake Wheeler
Artemi Panarin – Vincent Trocheck – Alexis Lafrenière
Wil Cuylle – Nick Bonino – Kaapo Kakko
Jimmy Vesey – Barclay Goodrow – Tyler Pitlick
Defense
K’Andre Miller – Jacob Trouba
Ryan Lindgren - Erik Gustafsson
Zac Jones – Brayden Schneider
Goalies
Igor Shesterkin
Jonathan Quick
Injuries
Adam Fox (LTIR – lower body)
Filip Chytil (IR – upper body)
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