Vegas Golden Knights (28-18-14, in the Pacific Division) vs. Buffalo Sabres (35-19-6, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Buffalo, New York; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Buffalo Sabres come into a matchup with the Vegas Golden Knights as winners of three straight games.<\/p>\n
Buffalo has gone 17-8-3 in home games and 35-19-6 overall. The Sabres have a 14-5-4 record in games they score one or more power-play goals.<\/p>\n
Vegas has a 28-18-14 record overall and a 14-10-7 record on the road. The Golden Knights are ninth in league play with 198 total goals (averaging 3.3 per game).<\/p>\n
The matchup Tuesday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Tage Thompson has scored 32 goals with 31 assists for the Sabres. Ryan McLeod has 10 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Pavel Dorofeyev has 28 goals and 19 assists for the Golden Knights. Ivan Barbashev has scored five goals and added two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Sabres: 7-2-1, averaging 3.9 goals, 6.4 assists, 3.6 penalties and 9.4 penalty minutes while giving up 2.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Golden Knights: 3-5-2, averaging 2.9 goals, 4.9 assists, three penalties and 6.9 penalty minutes while giving up 3.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Sabres: None listed.<\/p>\n
Golden Knights: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vegas Golden Knights (28-18-14, in the Pacific Division) vs. Buffalo Sabres (35-19-6, in the Atlantic Division) Buffalo, New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5129],"tags":[229,37676,149,5317,5,1259,13257,3328,4,292,1274,2880,4466,43,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-480553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-buffalo-sabres","9":"tag-data-skrive","10":"tag-golden-knights","11":"tag-goldenknights","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-ivan-barbashev","14":"tag-nevada","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-nhl-hockey","18":"tag-nv-state-wire","19":"tag-pavel-dorofeyev","20":"tag-ryan-mcleod","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-vegas","23":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","24":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116158826012831256","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480553","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=480553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480553\/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=480553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}