Sabres Have Not Talked About Being Sellers 2/27/24 – 7:00 pm EST at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, FL Record Buffalo – 27-27-4 | 58 points – 6th place in Atlantic Division Florida – 38-16-4 | 80 points – 2nd place in Atlantic Division Special Teams Buffalo Power Play – 15.0% (27th) Penalty Kill – 79.7% (15th) Florida Power Play – 25.7% (5th) Penalty Kill – 82.6% (7th) Top Scorers Buffalo Casey Mittelstadt: 58 GP, 13 G, 31 A, 44 PTS Rasmus Dahlin: 57 GP, 14 G, 29 A, 43 PTS Alex Tuch: 51 GP, 16 G, 22 A, 38 PTS Florida Sam Reinhart: 58 GP, 39 G, 28 A, 67 PTS Matthew Tkachuk: 57 GP, 20 G, 45 A, 65 PTS Carter Verhaeghe: 58 GP, 30 G, 30 A, 60 PTS Starting Goalies Buffalo – Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (17-14-2, 2.45 GAA, .913 save %) Florida – Sergei Bobrovsky (28-11-2, 2.36 GAA, .916 save %) Line Combinations and Pairings Buffalo Forwards (from Monday’s practice) Victor Olofsson-Tage Thompson- Alex Tuch Jordan Greenway-Casey Mittelstadt-Dylan Cozens Zach Benson-Peyton Krebs-JJ Peterka Eric Robinson-Zemgus Girgenson-Kyle Okposo Ex. Tyson Jost Defense Rasmus Dahlin(maintenance)-Henri Jokiharju Owen Power-Erik Johnson Jacob Bryson-Connor Clifton Kale Clague-Ryan Johnson Goaltenders Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen Eric Comrie Injuries Jack Quinn (IR – lower body) Jeff Skinner (unknown) Notes The Sabres are riding a five-game road winning streak and a win in tonight’s game would give them their longest road winning streak since they earned a franchise-record 10 consecutive road wins from Oct. 4 to Nov. 13, 2006. A win tonight would move the Sabres into a tie for the fourth-longest road winning streak in franchise history (Dec. 8 to 29, 1986; six games). Buffalo’s current five-game road winning streak is tied for the longest active road winning streak in the NHL. In Buffalo’s last 16 games, UkkoPekka Luukkonen has made 14 starts and has recorded 346 saves on 370 shots (.935) in that span. Among NHL goaltenders with at least 20 games played in 2023-24, Luukkonen ranks sixth in goals-against average (2.45). Luukkonen has allowed two or fewer goals in 11 of his last 14 starts. Rasmus Dahlin has skated 29 or minutes in each of Buffalo’s last six games and is the only Sabres skater to do so since the league began tracking time on ice in 1997-98. If he skates 29 or more minutes in tonight’s game, he will become the seventh NHL skater, and the first since Erik Karlsson from Feb. 25, 2016, to March 8, 2016, to do so in seven or more games. Dahlin is currently tied with Jerry Korab (216) for fifth all-time among all Sabres defensemen in assists and he needs one assist to gain sole possession of fifth place on Buffalo’s all-time list. Dylan Cozens has 13 points (4+9) in his last 13 games, including five points in his last five games (1+4). Kyle Okposo has registered one assist in back-to-back games and an assist in tonight’s game would give him his first assist streak of three or more games since he notched an assist in four consecutive games from Nov. 27 to Dec. 4, 2021. Image [https://thehockeynews.com/.image/c_fit,h_600,w_600/MjA0Mzk0MTAzMDA4NDA1Mjgw/img_5780.jpg] LATEST THN BUFFALO STORIES Where Could Erik Johnson Go At The Trade Deadline [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/buffalo-sabres/news/where-could-erik-johnson-go-at-the-trade-deadline] The Sabres Decision That Has Paid Immediate Dividends [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/buffalo-sabres/news/the-sabres-decision-that-has-immediately-played-dividends] Where Are The Sabres Going? [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/buffalo-sabres/news/where-are-the-sabres-going]
