{"id":376136,"date":"2025-12-27T17:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/376136\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T17:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:51:15","slug":"sabres-star-rasmus-dahlin-to-miss-divisional-showdown-vs-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/376136\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres Star Rasmus Dahlin To Miss Divisional Showdown Vs. Bruins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Sabres (18-14-4) have won seven straight and are on the heels of the Boston Bruins (20-17-1) in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/standings\/_\/view\/wild-card\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:wild card standings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">wild card standings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins have dropped four consecutive games but caught a break ahead of Saturday night\u2019s clash vs. the Sabres, as Buffalo star defender Rasmus Dahlin was ruled out for the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRasmus Dahlin won\u2019t play tonight. He was home in Sweden with his fiancee. He should be back with the Sabres at the start of their road trip. Ryan Johnson has been called up,\u201d Matthew Fairburn of The Athletic posted on Bluesky.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time All-Star and former No. 1 overall pick leads the Sabres in assists (24) this season and is third in points (28).<\/p>\n<p>Not having to face Dahlin is a huge advantage for Boston.<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins were facing some potential adversity ahead of the road battle on Saturday afternoon though, according to veteran NHL writer Joe Yerdon, as a snowstorm batters the northeast.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bruins have not arrived in Buffalo as yet. The weather is causing them issues in Boston so, obviously, they\u2019re not skating here this morning,\u201d Yerdon posted on Bluesky.<\/p>\n<p>Boston and Buffalo are scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>More NHL:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/12\/what-bruins-prospects-are-playing-at-2026-world-juniors\/\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:What Bruins Prospects Are Playing At 2026 World Juniors?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">  What Bruins Prospects Are Playing At 2026 World Juniors? <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Sabres (18-14-4) have won seven straight and are on the heels of the Boston Bruins (20-17-1)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[95,1107,229,5133,5,4,4011,14074,1108],"class_list":{"0":"post-376136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-sabres","8":"tag-boston-bruins","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-sabres","11":"tag-buffalosabres","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-rasmus-dahlin","15":"tag-ryan-johnson","16":"tag-sabres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115792804912391925","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}