Buffalo hoping to snap their three-game losing skid against their Atlantic Division rival

11/05/24 at 7:00 pm at Key Bank Center in Buffalo, NY

Record

Buffalo – 4-7-1 | 9 points – 7th place in the Atlantic Division

Ottawa – 6-5-0 | 12 points – 5th place in the Atlantic Division

Special Teams

Buffalo

Power Play – 8.6% (32nd)

Penalty Kill – 71.8% (27th)

Ottawa

Power Play – 33.3% (3rd)

Penalty Kill - 77.4% (19th)

Top Scorers

Buffalo

Tage Thompson: 12 GP, 7 G, 6 A, 13 PTS

Alex Tuch: 12 GP, 4 G, 6 A, 10 PTS

Owen Power: 12 GP, 3 G, 6 A, 9 PTS

Ottawa

Tim Stützle: 11 GP, 6 G, 10 A, 16 PTS

Brady Tkachuk: 11 GP, 7 G, 8 A, 15 PTS

Drake Batherson: 11 GP, 5 G, 7 A, 12 PTS

Starting Goalies

Buffalo – Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (3-4-1, 3.16 GAA, .893 save %)

Ottawa – Linus Ullmark (2-3-0, 2.62 GAA, .902 save %)

Line Combinations and Pairings

Buffalo

Forwards

JJ Peterka-Tage Thompson-Alex Tuch

Zach Benson/Jiri Kulich-Dylan Cozens-Jack Quinn

Jason Zucker-Ryan McLeod-Jordan Greenway

Beck Malenstyn-Peyton Krebs-Sam Lafferty/Nicolas Aube-Kubel

Defense

Rasmus Dahlin-Bowen Byram

Owen Power-Jacob Bryson

Mattias Samuelsson-Henri Jokiharju

Ex. Dennis Gilbert, Connor Clifton

Goaltenders

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen

Devon Levi

Injuries

Zach Benson(day-to-day - Lower Body)

Notes

The Sabres have earned a win in three of their last four home games against the Senators and they have scored four or more goals in each of those wins.

Tage Thompson has registered at least one point in each of his last five home games and he has tallied eight points (4+4) in those games. In his last five games overall, Thompson has recorded seven points (3+4).

Owen Power has recorded six points (1+5) in his last five games, including at least one point in each of his last four home games.

In his last nine games, Jason Zucker has posted nine points (3+6), including at least one in each of his last five home games (3+3). A point in tonight’s game would give Zucker the longest home-point streak of his career (six games). Including his current home point streak of five games, Zucker has recorded four five-game home point streaks in his career.

Rasmus Dahlin has notched five points (1+4) in his last four games. Dahlin is one assist away from tying Doug Bodger for the fourth-most assists by a defenseman in franchise history (233) and is one point away from reaching 300 points in his career.

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