{"id":474943,"date":"2026-02-27T11:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/474943\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:33:12","slug":"panthers-host-the-sabres-after-marchands-2-goal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/474943\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers host the Sabres after Marchand&#8217;s 2-goal game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo Sabres (33-19-6, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Florida Panthers (30-25-3, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n<p>Sunrise, Florida; Friday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"http:\/\/betmgm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Panthers -119, Sabres -101; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The Florida Panthers host the Buffalo Sabres after Brad Marchand\u2019s two-goal game against the Toronto Maple Leafs in the Panthers\u2019 5-1 win.<\/p>\n<p>Florida has a 7-9-1 record in Atlantic Division play and a 30-25-3 record overall. The Panthers are 12-3-2 in one-goal games.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo has gone 33-19-6 overall with an 11-4-3 record against the Atlantic Division. The Sabres are 10th in the league with 194 total goals (averaging 3.3 per game).<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s game is the fourth time these teams meet this season. The Sabres won the previous meeting 5-3.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Sam Bennett has scored 19 goals with 24 assists for the Panthers. Matthew Tkachuk has four goals and five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Tuch has 21 goals and 26 assists for the Sabres. Tage Thompson has six goals and five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Panthers: 5-5-0, averaging 3.1 goals, 4.6 assists, 6.6 penalties and 17.7 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Sabres: 7-2-1, averaging 3.9 goals, 6.3 assists, 3.4 penalties and nine penalty minutes while giving up 2.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Panthers: None listed.<\/p>\n<p>Sabres: None listed.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres (33-19-6, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Florida Panthers (30-25-3, in the Atlantic Division) Sunrise, Florida; Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5102],"tags":[6452,254,229,37676,1280,62,57,5141,5,94,3328,4,292,63,83,43,1712,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-474943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida-panthers","8":"tag-alex-tuch","9":"tag-brad-marchand","10":"tag-buffalo-sabres","11":"tag-data-skrive","12":"tag-fl-state-wire","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-florida-panthers","15":"tag-floridapanthers","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-matthew-tkachuk","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-nhl-hockey","21":"tag-panthers","22":"tag-sam-bennett","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-tage-thompson","25":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116142381865604688","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474943","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=474943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}