Buffalo hoping to bounce back from a bad effort in Colorado in the second of a three-game Western road swing
12/15/23 – 10 pm EST at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, NV
Record
Buffalo – 12-15-3 | 27 points – 7th place in Atlantic Division
Vegas – 20-5-5 | 45 points – 1st place in Pacific Division
Special Teams
Buffalo
Power Play – 13.6% (26th)
Penalty Kill – 81.1% (T-11th)
Vegas
Power Play – 22.7% (T-10th)
Penalty Kill – 87.2% (3rd)
Top Scorers
Buffalo
Rasmus Dahlin: 29 GP, 7 G, 17 A, 24 PTS
JJ Peterka: 30 GP, 12 G, 10 A, 22 PTS
Jeff Skinner: 30 GP, 12 G, 10 A, 22 PTS
Vegas
Jack Eichel: 30 GP, 12 G, 21 A, 33 PTS
Mark Stone: 30 GP, 10 G, 19 A, 29 PTS
William Karlsson: 30 GP, 13 G, 15 A, 28 PTS
Starting Goalies
Buffalo – Devon Levi (5-4-2, 3.16 GAA, .893 sv%)
Vegas – Logan Thompson (9-3-3, 2.39 GAA, .915 sv%)
Line Combinations and Pairings
Buffalo (Per Lance Lysowski of the Buffalo News)
Forwards
Zach Benson - Tage Thompson - Alex Tuch
Casey Mittelstadt – Dylan Cozens - J-J Peterka
Eric Robinson - Peyton Krebs - Kyle Okposo
Brett Murray - Tyson Jost - Victor Olofsson
Defense
Rasmus Dahlin - Mattias Samuelsson
Owen Power - Henri Jokiharju
Ryan Johnson - Connor Clifton
Ex. Jacob Bryson, Erik Johnson
Goaltenders
Devon Levi
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
Eric Comrie
Injuries
Jeff Skinner (IR – upper body)
Jordan Greenway (IR – upper-body)
Jack Quinn (LTIR – Achilles)
Zemgus Girgensons (IR – unknown)
Vegas
Forwards
Ivan Barbashev – Jack Eichel – Mark Stone
Brett Howden – Chandler Stephenson – Jonathan Marchessault
Paul Cotter – William Karlsson – Michael Amadio
William Carrier – Nicolas Roy – Keegan Kolesar
Defense
Brayden McNabb – Alex Pietrangelo
Nicolas Hague – Zach Whitecloud
Ben Hutton – Brayden Pachal
Goaltenders
Logan Thompson
Jiri Patera
Injuries
Alec Martinez (IR)
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