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Montreal Canadiens (30-17-7, 67 pts) at Buffalo Sabres (31-17-5, 67 pts)<\/p>\n
Venue: KeyBank Center
Date: Saturday, January 31
Time: 7:00 pm EST
How To Watch: NHL Network\/CITY\/SNE\/TVAS\/MSG-B
Radio: TSN 690\/550 WGR AM<\/p>\n
Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n Montreal Canadiens News & Notes:<\/p>\n The Canadiens\u00a0picked up their second straight win on Thursday with a 7-3 win over the Avalanche. They\u2019re 5-4-1 in their last ten games, averaging 3.6 goals per game while also allowing 3.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n Buffalo Sabres News & Notes:<\/p>\n The Sabres picked up their fifth straight win on Thursday with a 4-1 win over the Kings. They\u2019ve recorded points in eight of their last nine games, averaging 4.4 goals per game while allowing 2.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n Montreal Canadiens Projected Lines<\/p>\n Caufield-Suzuki-Texier Hutson-Dobson Montembeault Get your Montreal Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n Buffalo Sabres Projected Lines:<\/p>\n Benson-Thompson-Tuch Samuelsson-Dahlin Ellis Get Your Buffalo Hockey Merchandise here<\/a><\/p>\n Players To Watch:<\/p>\n Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n Nick Suzuki has two points per game in all three games against Buffalo. He has two goals and four assists in the three games.<\/p>\n Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n Zach Benson had a point in each game against Montreal this season. He has a goal and two assists in three meetings.<\/p>\n Injury Report:<\/p>\n Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n F Patrik Laine \u2013 IR Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n D\u00a0Conor Timmins<\/a>\u00a0\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 Montreal Canadiens (30-17-7, 67 pts) at Buffalo Sabres (31-17-5, 67 pts) Venue: KeyBank CenterDate:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[633,2216,229,265,6756,3566,5,11076,9982,36853,5345,6814,264,21,5147,4,5573,975,640,7800,4023],"class_list":["post-437966","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-david-reinbacher","tag-hockey","tag-jacob-bryson","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-ukko-pekka-luukkonen","tag-zach-benson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115989795133357798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437966","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=437966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Slafkovsky-Kapanen-Demidov
Gallagher-Danault-Anderson
Bolduc-Evans-Dach<\/p>\n
Matheson-Guhle
Xhekaj-Carrier<\/p>\n
Dobes<\/p>\n
Zucker-McLeod-Quinn
Doan-Ostlund-Helenius
Kozak-Krebs-Malenstyn<\/p>\n
Power-Byram
Kesselring-Metsa<\/p>\n
Lyon<\/p>\n
F Alex Newhook \u2013 IR
D David Reinbacher \u2013 Out<\/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
D Jacob Bryson \u2013 IR
G Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen \u2013 Out<\/p>\n