The Buffalo Sabres picked up an impressive 7-4 win against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Jan. 27. With this victory, the Sabres improved to a 30-17-5 record on the season.<\/p>\n
Mattias Samuelsson played a role in the Sabres’ win over the Maple Leafs, as he recorded three assists in the matchup. This was just the latest solid game from the left-shot defenseman this season.<\/p>\n
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After setting previous career highs with four goals and 14 points in 63 games last season, Samuelsson has been simply thriving for the Sabres so far in 2025-26. In 50 games this campaign, the 6-foot-4 defenseman has set new career highs with eight goals, 23 assists, and 31 points. He also has a plus-27 rating this season for the Sabres.<\/p>\n
With how well Samuelsson has been playing this season, there is no question that he is a major reason for the Sabres being in the good position they are in right now. The 25-year-old is hitting a brand new level for the Sabres, and it will be fascinating to see how he builds on his strong season from here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Sabres picked up an impressive 7-4 win against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Jan. 27. With…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1107,229,5133,5,3034,4,1108,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-433692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-sabres","8":"tag-buffalo","9":"tag-buffalo-sabres","10":"tag-buffalosabres","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-mattias-samuelsson","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-sabres","15":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115976401491074907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433692","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=433692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}