Sabres Hit The Road Against The Hurricanes

1/19/26 - 1:30pm at LeNovo Center, Raleigh, NC

Buffalo – 26-16-5 | - 57  points – 5th place in the Atlantic Division

Carolina  – 30-15-4 | - 64 points – 1st place in the Metropolitan Division

Special Teams

Buffalo

Power Play – 19.4% (20th)

Penalty Kill – 83.3% (5th)

Carolina

Power Play – 22.3% (11th)

Penalty Kill - 76.7% (26th)

Top Scorers

Buffalo

Tage Thompson: 47 GP, 25 G, 25 A, 50 PTS

Alex Tuch: 46 GP, 17 G, 23 A, 40 PTS

Josh Doan: 47 GP, 15 G, 19 A, 34 PTS

Carolina

Sebastian Aho: 49 GP, 17 G, 33 A, 50 PTS

Andrei Svechnikov: 49 GP, 16 G, 24 A, 40 PTS

Nikolaj Ehlers: 49 GP, 14 G, 25 A, 39 PTS

Starting Goalies(projected)

Buffalo – Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (10-6-2, 2.72 GAA, .901 Sv %)

Carolina –  Brandon Bussi (17-3-1, 2.25 GAA, .905 Sv%)

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Sabres Line Combinations and Pairings (projected)

Forwards

Peyton Krebs - Tage Thompson - Josh Doan

Jason Zucker - Noah Ostlund - Alex Tuch 

Zach Benson - Ryan McLeod - Jack Quinn 

Jordan Greenway - Konsta Helenius - Beck Malenstyn

Ex. Tyson Kozak

Defense

Mattias Samuelsson - Rasmus Dahlin

Bowen Byram - Michael Kesselring

Owen Power- Zach Metsa

Jacob Bryson 

Goaltenders

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen

Colten Ellis

Injuries

Justin Danforth (lower body, Oct. 18; injured reserve)

Jiri Kulich (blood clot, Nov. 4; injured reserve) 

Alex Lyon (day-to-day, lower-body, Dec 31) 

Conor Timmins (broken leg, Dec. 20; injured reserve)

Josh Dunne (mid-body, Jan. 14; injured reserve)

Josh Norris (ribs, Jan. 16, week-to-week) 

Notes

The Sabres have recorded at least one point in 16 of their last 18 games (15-2-1). • Buffalo has won eight of its last nine road games dating back to Dec. 9. A win in today’s game would mark the first time the Sabres have earned nine or more wins in any 10-game road span since Oct. 13 to Nov. 26, 2006 (nine wins). The Sabres have gone 5-for-14 (35.71 percent) on the power play in the last three games, including at least one goal in each contest. 

Rasmus Dahlin (305 assists) ranks eighth on Buffalo’s all-time assists list and needs five assists to move into a tie with Don Luce (310 assists with Buffalo) for seventh place. Dahlin is riding a four-game point streak (2+3) and a point today would mark his longest point streak since Jan. 28 to Feb. 22, 2025 (six games; 3+9). • It would mark his 12th point streak of five or more games in his career. 

Tage Thompson has recorded 29 points (13+16) in his last 22 games, including 19 points (7+12) in his last 12 games and at least one point in seven consecutive contests (5+8). Thompson would match the longest point streak of his career (Oct. 12 to Nov. 1, 2024; eight games) with a point today.  

Alex Tuch has 10 points (6+4) in his last 10 games and at least one point in each of Buffalo’s last seven games. Tuch would earn his longest point streak as a Sabre and the second-longest point streak of his career with a point today. His nine-game point streak with Vegas from Dec. 27, 2018 to Jan. 12, 2019 (3+8) is the longest of his career. 

Ryan McLeod has recorded nine points (4+5) in his last seven games, including at least one point in six of the seven games in that span. 

Josh Doan has registered 10 points (5+5) in his last nine games. 

In his last five contests, Jack Quinn has recorded five points (4+1). 

Zach Benson has posted five points (1+4) in his last five games.

Jason Zucker has collected at least one assist in back-to-back games. Zucker is two games away from 800 in his NHL career. 

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