{"id":487332,"date":"2026-03-05T17:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/487332\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T17:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:22:20","slug":"nhl-game-preview-buffalo-sabres-at-pittsburgh-penguins-with-line-combinations-03-05-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/487332\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Buffalo Sabres at Pittsburgh Penguins with Line Combinations 03\/05\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NHL<\/p>\n

(Photo by: Jeffrey T. Barnes-AP)<\/p>\n

Buffalo Sabres (36-19-6, 78 pts) at Pittsburgh Penguins (31-16-13, 75 pts)<\/p>\n

Venue: PPG Paints Arena
Date: Thursday, March 5
Time: 7:00 pm EST
How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN
Radio:\u00a0WGR 550 AM, 96.5 WCMF\/ 105.9 The X<\/p>\n

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Buffalo Sabres News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Sabres beat the Golden Knights 3-2 on Tuesday night. In their last five games, they have a 4-1-0 record, scoring 3.2 goals per game while conceding 2.4. The Sabres made a deal Wednesday for Colton Parayko to bolster their blue line as they ramp up for a deep playoff push.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Penguins & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Penguins lost their last game 2-1 to the Boston Bruins on Tuesday. In their last five games, the Penguins have a 3-1-1 record, scoring 3.4 goals per game while giving up 1.6. The Penguins sit in second place in the Metropolitan Division.<\/p>\n

Buffalo Sabres Projected Lines<\/p>\n

Krebs-Thompson-Tuch
Zucker-McLeod-Quinn
Ostlund-Norris-Doan
Benson-Kozak-Malenstyn<\/p>\n

Samuelsson-Dahlin
Byram-Power
Metsa-Kesselring<\/p>\n

Luukkonen
Lyon<\/p>\n

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Pittsburgh Penguins Projected Lines<\/p>\n

Rakell-Kindel-Rust
Malkin-Novak-Chinakhov
Mantha-Hayes-Brazeau
Dewar-Hayes-Acciari<\/p>\n

Wotherspoon-Karlsson
Girard-Letang
Shea-Clifton<\/p>\n

Silovs
Skinner<\/p>\n

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Players To Watch:<\/p>\n

Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n

Tage Thompson<\/a> had a goal in the Sabres\u2019 5-2 loss to the Penguins back on February 5th.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n

Ben Kindel<\/a> had two goals for the Penguins in their 5-2 win over Buffalo back on February 5th in their last meeting.<\/p>\n

Injury Report:<\/p>\n

Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n

D\u00a0Conor Timmins<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
F\u00a0Jiri Kulich<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
F\u00a0Justin Danforth<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
F Jordan Greenway \u2013 IR
F Zach Benson -IR<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n

C\u00a0Filip Hallander<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
G\u00a0Joel Blomqvist<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
F Sidney Crosby \u2013 IR
D\u00a0Jack St. Ivany<\/a> \u2013 IR
D Ryan Graves<\/a> \u2013 IR
F Blake Lizotte \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n

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JC Giff<\/a><\/p>\n

Father of 3, Bruins, Red Sox, Cubs, Liverpool, Syracuse football and Basketball Fan. Love Fantasy Football, Baseball and Hockey. If I am not at work, I either at an ice rink, Ball field or spending quality time with my family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo by: Jeffrey T. Barnes-AP) Buffalo Sabres (36-19-6, 78 pts) at Pittsburgh Penguins (31-16-13, 75 pts) Venue: PPG…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5113],"tags":[710,8194,229,22240,2522,5,1610,9982,98,11074,6814,4,5573,118,1469,100,5216,3638,768,1712,4023],"class_list":{"0":"post-487332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-ben-kindel","9":"tag-blake-lizotte","10":"tag-buffalo-sabres","11":"tag-connor-timmins","12":"tag-filip-hallander","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-jack-st-ivany","15":"tag-jiri-kulich","16":"tag-joel-blomqvist","17":"tag-jordan-greenway","18":"tag-justin-danforth","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-nhl-game-preview","21":"tag-penguins","22":"tag-pittsburgh","23":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","24":"tag-pittsburghpenguins","25":"tag-ryan-graves","26":"tag-sidney-crosby","27":"tag-tage-thompson","28":"tag-zach-benson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116177730009184983","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487332","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=487332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}