Buffalo Sabres (29-17-5, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Toronto Maple Leafs (24-19-9, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Toronto; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Buffalo Sabres visit the Toronto Maple Leafs after Jason Zucker’s two-goal game against the New York Islanders in the Sabres’ 5-0 win.<\/p>\n
Toronto is 24-19-9 overall and 6-6-3 against the Atlantic Division. The Maple Leafs have a -5 scoring differential, with 170 total goals scored and 175 conceded.<\/p>\n
Buffalo is 29-17-5 overall with a 9-3-2 record in Atlantic Division games. The Sabres have a 27-4-4 record when scoring three or more goals.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Tuesday for the third time this season. The Maple Leafs won the previous meeting 4-3 in overtime.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Auston Matthews has 25 goals and 16 assists for the Maple Leafs. John Tavares has four goals and two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Tage Thompson has 27 goals and 26 assists for the Sabres. Alex Tuch has scored five goals with three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Maple Leafs: 4-4-2, averaging 2.9 goals, 4.4 assists, 3.2 penalties and 6.7 penalty minutes while giving up 3.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Sabres: 7-2-1, averaging 4.2 goals, 6.9 assists, 4.1 penalties and 9.3 penalty minutes while giving up 2.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Maple Leafs: None listed.<\/p>\n
Sabres: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres (29-17-5, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Toronto Maple Leafs (24-19-9, in the Atlantic Division) Toronto; Tuesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5110],"tags":[53061,301,5,122,3328,159,5190,5189,4,292,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-428804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-53061","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-islanders","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-islanders","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkislanders","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-nhl-hockey","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115961160344758522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428804","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=428804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}