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Buffalo looking to bounce back from their worst loss of the season in New Jersey on Saturday

Sabres - NY Rangers Game Preview

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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