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Buffalo Sabres (27-17-5, 59 pts) at Montreal Canadiens (28-15-7, 63 pts)<\/p>\n
Venue: Bell Centre
Date: Thursday, January 22
Time: 7:00 pm EST
How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+\/ABC\/MSG-B\/TSN2\/RDS
Radio:\u00a0TSN 690\/550 WGR<\/p>\n
Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n Buffalo Sabres & Notes:<\/p>\n The Sabres picked up a 5-3 win over the Predators on Tuesday. The win snapped a two-game skid. They\u2019ve recorded points in four of their last five games, averaging four goals per game while allowing three goals per game. <\/p>\n Montreal Canadiens News & Notes:<\/p>\n The Canadiens won their second straight with a 4-3 win over the Wild on Tuesday. Montreal, like Buffalo, has points in four of their last five games, averaging 4.2 goals per game while allowing 3.8 goals per game. <\/p>\n Buffalo Sabres Projected Lines:<\/p>\n Doan-Thompson-Tuch Power-Dahlin Lyon Get Your Buffalo Hockey Merchandise here<\/a><\/p>\n Montreal Canadiens Projected Lines<\/p>\n Caufield-Suzuki-Dach Texier Matheson-Dobson Montembeault Get your Montreal Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n Players To Watch:<\/p>\n Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n Tage Thompson contributed to all five Buffalo goals in their second meeting against Montreal this season, just six days ago.<\/p>\n Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n Nick Suzuki has a point in each game against Buffalo this season, entering tonight he has a goal and three assists against the Sabres this season. <\/p>\n Injury Report:<\/p>\n Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n D\u00a0Conor Timmins<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n F Patrik Laine \u2013 IR Next Game:<\/p>\n \tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Photo\/Jeffrey T. Barnes Buffalo Sabres (27-17-5, 59 pts) at Montreal Canadiens (28-15-7, 63 pts) Venue: Bell CentreDate:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[633,2216,229,265,6756,5,9982,36853,5345,6814,264,21,5147,4,5573,975,640,1712],"class_list":["post-421536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal-canadiens","tag-alex-newhook","tag-atlantic-division","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-canadiens","tag-conor-timmins","tag-hockey","tag-jiri-kulich","tag-josh-dunne","tag-josh-norris","tag-justin-danforth","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-montrealcanadiens","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-nick-suzuki","tag-patrik-laine","tag-tage-thompson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115938511770267012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421536","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=421536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Helenius-Ostlund-Benson
Greenway-Krebs-Malenstyn<\/p>\n
Byram-Samuelsson
Bryson-Metsa<\/p>\n
Luukkonen<\/p>\n
Slafkovsky-Kapanen-Demidov
Gallagher-Danault-Anderson
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Hutson-Struble
Guhle-Carrier<\/p>\n
Dobes<\/p>\n
F\u00a0Jiri Kulich<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
F\u00a0Justin Danforth<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
F Josh Norris \u2013 IR
F Josh Dunne \u2013 IR<\/p>\n
F Alex Newhook \u2013 IR
D David Reinbacher \u2013 Out
F Alexandre Texier \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n