{"id":462569,"date":"2026-02-18T22:22:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/462569\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T22:22:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:22:34","slug":"ruff-gives-injury-updates-as-sabres-return-to-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/462569\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruff gives injury updates as Sabres return to practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Sabres returned to practice Wednesday for the first time in over a week due to the Olympic break.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Lindy Ruff stressed the practice was more about conditioning and compete.<\/p>\n<p>Forwards Josh Norris and Josh Dunne were on the ice in non-contact jerseys.<\/p>\n<p>Goaltender Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, who was injured before the break and kept from competing for Finland at the Olympics, skated and is \u201cwithin days\u201d of joining the team, according to Ruff.<\/p>\n<p>The team will find out if forward Zach Benson will return soon, and there is no time frame for forward Jordan Greenway\u2019s return, Ruff said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres were without forward Tage Thompson and defenseman Rasmus Dahlin, who are participating in the Olympics for the U.S. and Sweden, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Their next game is Wednesday, Feb. 25, against the Devils in New Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Sabres returned to practice Wednesday for the first time in over a week due to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1249,1107,229,5133,5,40,4,2944,1108,4093,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-462569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-sabres","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-sabres","11":"tag-buffalosabres","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-rochester","16":"tag-sabres","17":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116093973404738524","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462569","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=462569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}