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Chicago Blackhawks (10-6-4) at Buffalo Sabres (7-9-4)
Venue: KeyBank Center
Date: Friday, November 21
Time: 7:00 pm EST
How To Watch: MSG-B, ESPN+
Radio: WGN 720 AM, 550 AM WGR

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Chicago Blackhawks News & Notes:

The Blackhawks are coming off a 3-2 loss to the Seattle Kraken. Chicago is third in the NHL in average goals against per game at 2.55.

Buffalo Sabres News & Notes:

The Sabres are coming off a 6-2 loss to the Calgary Flames on Wednesday. Buffalo has the NHL’s top-ranked penalty kill at 89.8 percent.

Chicago Blackhawks Projected Lines

Greene-Bedard-Bertuzzi
Moore-Nazar-Teravainen
Dach-Donato-Mikheyev
Slaggert-Lafferty

Vlasic-Crevier
Kaiser-Levshunov
Grzelcyk-Murphy
Rinzel

Soderblom
Knight

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Buffalo Sabres Projected Lines:

Doan-Thompson-Tuch
Rosen-McLeod-Quinn
Greenway-Kozak-Krebs
Dunne-Ostlund-Malenstyn

Samuelsson-Dahlin
Power-Bryson
Byram-timmins

Luukkonen
Ellis

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Players To Watch:

Chicago Blackhawks

Connor Bedard leads the Blackhawks with 29 points. Defenseman Wyatt Kaiser is a plus-10.

Buffalo Sabres

Tage Thompson leads the Sabres with 18 points. Alex Tuch is second on the team with 16 points.

Injury Report:

Chicago Blackhawks

F Jason Dickinson – IR
G Laurent Brossoit – IR
F Andre Burakovsky – OUT
F Nick Foligno – IR

Buffalo Sabres

C Josh Norris – IR
RW Justin Danforth – IR
D Michael Kesselring – IR
LW Zach Benson – IR
LW Jason Zucker – IR
C Jiri Kulich – IR

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