{"id":444297,"date":"2026-02-04T01:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/444297\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T01:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:07:17","slug":"sabres-zach-benson-will-miss-tuesdays-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/444297\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres&#8217; Zach Benson: Will miss Tuesday&#8217;s outing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/teams\/BUF\/buffalo-sabres\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/374.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/players\/29167156\/benson\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benson<\/a> (upper-body) was ruled out ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s road matchup against the Lightning, per Rachel Lenzi.<\/p>\n<p>After sustaining the upper-body injury in Monday&#8217;s 5-3 win over Florida, Benson will require further evaluation before returning to Buffalo&#8217;s lineup, according to head coach Lindy Ruff. It&#8217;s a tough break for the red-hot <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/teams\/BUF\/buffalo-sabres\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabres<\/a>, who will be without Benson for Tuesday&#8217;s clash against the Atlantic Division-leading Lightning. The 20-year-old forward will have one more chance to return to the Sabres&#8217; lineup prior to the Olympic break in Buffalo&#8217;s game set for Thursday against the Penguins.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benson (upper-body) was ruled out ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s road matchup against the Lightning, per Rachel Lenzi. After sustaining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1107,229,5133,276,5,4,1108,4023],"class_list":{"0":"post-444297","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-fantasy-hockey","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-sabres","15":"tag-zach-benson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116009687747488281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444297","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=444297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}