Pre-Season Game Thread: Pittsburgh Penguins at Buffalo Sabres – 06 Oct 2023 – 7:00PM EDT

2023010101

#Pittsburgh [](/r/penguins) Penguins at Buffalo [](/r/sabres) Sabres

#KeyBank Center

##In-Game Updates

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##Time

|PT|MT|CT|ET|AT|UTC|
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|4:00PM|5:00PM|6:00PM|7:00PM|8:00PM|11:00PM|##Game Info:

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|TV|MSG-B, SN, NHLN, SN-PIT|
|Other|[Preview](https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/2023010101) – [Boxscore](https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/2023010101/boxscore) – [Recap](https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/2023010101/recap)|
|GameCenter|[On NHL.com](https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/2023010101/playbyplay)|

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##Projected Lineups

||Left|Center|Right||Left|Center|Right|
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|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Jeff Skinner|Tage Thompson|Alex Tuch|[PIT](/r/penguins)|Rickard Rakell|Sidney Crosby|Bryan Rust|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|John Jason Peterka|Dylan Cozens|Casey Mittelstadt|[PIT](/r/penguins)|Alex Nylander|Evgeni Malkin|Reilly Smith|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Jordan Greenway|Peyton Krebs|Victor Olofsson|[PIT](/r/penguins)|Drew O’Connor|Lars Eller|Matthew Nieto|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Zemgus Girgensons|Tyson Jost|Kyle Okposo|[PIT](/r/penguins)|Rem Pitlick|Noel Acciari|Jeff Carter|

||Left D|Right D||Left D|Right D|
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|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Rasmus Dahlin|Connor Clifton|[PIT](/r/penguins)|Ryan Graves|Kris Letang|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Owen Power|Henri Jokiharju|[PIT](/r/penguins)|Marcus Pettersson|Erik Karlsson|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Mattias Samuelsson|Erik Johnson|[PIT](/r/penguins)|Pierre-Olivier Joseph|Chad Ruhwedel|

||Goalies||Goalies|
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|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Devon Levi|[PIT](/r/penguins)|Tristan Jarry|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Eric Comrie|[PIT](/r/penguins)|Alex Nedeljkovic|

[Source](https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/teams/buffalo-sabres/line-combinations/), [Source](https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/teams/pittsburgh-penguins/line-combinations/)

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##Injuries

||Player|Date|Injury|Status|Details|Return|
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|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Dylan Cozens|04 Oct 2023|Undisclosed|DTD|Cozens (undisclosed) was sore after Wednesday’s morning skate and won’t play versus the Columbus Blue Jackets, Paul Hamilton of WGR Sports Radio 550 reports.|unknown|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Erik Johnson|04 Oct 2023|Lower Body|OUT|Johnson aggravated a lower-body injury and will miss Wednesday’s preseason contest versus Columbus as a result, Paul Hamilton of WGR Sports Radio 550.|unknown|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Matthew Savoie|19 Sep 2023|Shoulder|OUT|Savoie (shoulder) didn’t participate in Wednesday’s morning skate, per Lance Lysowski of The Buffalo News.|unknown|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Jack Quinn|21 Sep 2023|Achilles|OUT|Surgery|29 Oct 2023|
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|[PIT](/r/penguins)|Pierre-Olivier Joseph|03 Oct 2023|Lower Body|DTD|Per Seth Rorabaugh of TribLive.com, Joseph (lower body) is practicing for the second day in a row Thursday.|unknown|
|[PIT](/r/penguins)|Mark Pysyk|26 Sep 2023|Lower Body|IR|According to coach Mike Sullivan, Pysyk will be out “longer term” with a lower-body injury, Matt Vensel of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.|30 Oct 2023|
|[PIT](/r/penguins)|Will Butcher|21 Sep 2023|Undisclosed|OUT|Butcher is out indefinitely with an undisclosed injury, Seth Rorabaugh of TribLive.com reports.|10 Oct 2023|
|[PIT](/r/penguins)|Owen Pickering||Undisclosed|OUT||unknown|
|[PIT](/r/penguins)|Raivis Ansons|21 Sep 2023|Undisclosed|OUT|Ansons (undisclosed) is considered out indefinitely, Seth Rorabaugh of TribLive.com reports.|10 Oct 2023|
|[PIT](/r/penguins)|Jake Guentzel|21 Sep 2023|Ankle|OUT|Surgery|24 Oct 2023|

[Source](https://puckpedia.com/team/buffalo-sabres/injuries), [Source](https://puckpedia.com/team/pittsburgh-penguins/injuries)

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