Los Angeles Kings (22-16-13, in the Pacific Division) vs. Buffalo Sabres (30-17-5, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Buffalo, New York; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Buffalo Sabres host the Los Angeles Kings as winners of four straight games.<\/p>\n
Buffalo is 16-6-3 at home and 30-17-5 overall. The Sabres have gone 10-3-3 in games they score one or more power-play goals.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles is 22-16-13 overall and 14-6-6 in road games. The Kings are 17-1-7 when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n
Thursday’s game is the first time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Josh Doan has scored 17 goals with 19 assists for the Sabres. Tage Thompson has seven goals and nine assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Kevin Fiala has 18 goals and 19 assists for the Kings. Corey Perry has three goals and six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Sabres: 7-2-1, averaging 4.4 goals, seven assists, 3.9 penalties and 8.7 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Kings: 4-2-4, averaging 2.4 goals, 4.1 assists, 3.1 penalties and 6.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Sabres: None listed.<\/p>\n
Kings: 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":"Los Angeles Kings (22-16-13, in the Pacific Division) vs. Buffalo Sabres (30-17-5, in the Atlantic Division) Buffalo, New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5100],"tags":[53309,301,1107,229,5133,5,4,292,1108,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-432401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-sabres","8":"tag-53309","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-buffalo-sabres","12":"tag-buffalosabres","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nhl-hockey","16":"tag-sabres","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115972536018814354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432401","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=432401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432401\/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=432401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}