Buffalo hoping to build on a 5-2 victory over New Jersey in their final meeting with their geographic rival.
3/30/24 at 7:00 pm at Key Bank Center in Buffalo, NY
Record
Buffalo – 35-34-5 | 75 points – 6th place in Atlantic Division
Toronto – 41-22-9 | 91 points – 3rd place in Atlantic Division
Special Teams
Buffalo
Power Play – 16.1% (27th)
Penalty Kill – 79.1% (19th)
Toronto
Power Play – 25.2% (6th)
Penalty Kill - 76.5% (25th)
Top Scorers
Buffalo
Rasmus Dahlin: 73 GP, 17 G, 36 A, 53 PTS
Alex Tuch: 67 GP, 19 G, 32 A, 51 PTS
Tage Thompson: 62 GP, 26, 23 A, 49 PTS
Toronto
Auston Matthews: 71 GP, 59 G, 35 A, 94 PTS
William Nylander: 72 GP, 40 G, 54 A, 94 PTS
Mitch Marner: 62 GP, 25 G, 51 A, 76 PTS
Starting Goalies
Buffalo – Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (24-19-3, 2.57 GAA, .911 save %)
Toronto – Ilya Samsonov (19-6-7, 3.12 GAA, .889 save %)
Line Combinations and Pairings
Buffalo
Forwards
JJ Peterka-Tage Thompson-Alex Tuch
Zach Benson-Dylan Cozens-Jack Quinn
Jeff Skinner-Peyton Krebs-Jordan Greenway
Zemgus Girgensons-Tyson Jost-Victor Olofsson
Ex. Eric Robinson
Defense
Owen Power-Rasmus Dahlin
Bowen Byram-Henri Jokiharju
Jacob Bryson-Connor Clifton
Ex. Kale Clague
Goaltenders
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
Devon Levi
Eric Comrie
Notes
The Sabres have earned at least one point in four consecutive games against the Maple Leafs (3-0-1). If they earn at least one point in tonight’s game, it will mark the first time since Nov. 15, 2014 to March 7, 2016 (4-0-1) that the Sabres have earned at least one point in five or more consecutive games against the Maple Leafs.
In his last eight games, Alex Tuch has tallied 11 points (2+9) and he is riding a seven-game point streak (1+9). A point in tonight’s game would mark the first time Tuch has registered a point streak of eight or more games as a member of the Sabres. Tuch has tallied at least one assist in seven straight games, the longest assist streak of his career. An assist in tonight’s game would make Tuch the first Sabres skater since Jack Eichel from Nov. 19 to Dec. 2, 2019 (eight games) to record an assist streak of eight or more games.
Tage Thompson has recorded 14 points (8+6) in his last 10 games.
JJ Peterka has posted six points (5+1) in his last six games. Peterka (22 years, 76 days) has recorded at least one goal in each of his last four games and a goal in tonight’s game would make him the youngest Sabres skater since Donald Audette (22 years, 58 days) from Nov. 8 to 20, 1991 (five games) to record a goal streak of five or more games. Peterka is the only Sabres skater who has recorded a goal streak of four or more games this season.
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