The Detroit Red Wings (38-25-8) are on the road tonight to play the Atlantic Division-leading Buffalo Sabres (44-20-8). The Red Wings are three points out of a wildcard position in the Eastern Conference. <\/p>\n
Where:\u00a0 Key Bank Center<\/p>\n
When: 7 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
TV\/Radio: FanDuel Sports Network\/97.1 FM<\/p>\n
Odds:\u00a0 Detroit (+1,5, -198), Buffalo (-1.5, +164), DRAFTKINGS<\/p>\n
Hot: Lucas Raymond (22-47-69 in 69 games) is trying to be the third Red Wings player in the past 20 years to record three-consecutive 70-point seasons, joining Pavel Datsyuk (5 from 2005-06 to 2009-10) and Henrik Zetterberg (4 from 2007-08 to 2010-11).<\/p>\n
Not:\u00a0 The Red Wings are 26th in the league with a 78.9% penalty killing efficiency.<\/p>\n
Spotlight: \u00a0Captain Dylan Larkin shows eight points (4-4-8) in his last eight games dating to Feb. 2 at Colorado. He has 632 career points, leaving him one point short of tying Brendan Shanahan (633) for 10th place on Detroit\u2019s all-time list.<\/p>\n
Story: John Gibson will start in goal tonight. . . GM Steve Yzerman called up Michal Postava from Grand Rapids to be the backup. . . The Red Wings have lost four of their last six (2-3-1). . . Sheldon Dries was sent back to Grand Rapids Thursday and he scored for the Griffins Thursday night in a 5-2 win against the Cleveland Monsters. Injuries: Michael Rasmussen (undisclosed), Cam Talbot (undisclosed). Talbot was on the ice for the optional morning skate.<\/p>\n
Detroit Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Alex DeBrincat \u2014 J.T. Compher\u2013 Patrick Kane<\/p>\n
David Perron \u2014 Dylan Larkin \u2014 Lucas Raymond<\/p>\n
Andrew Copp\u2013 Emmitt Finnie \u2014 Mason Appleton<\/p>\n
James van Riemsdyk \u2014 Marco Kasper \u2014 Dominik Shine<\/p>\n
Defense Pairings<\/p>\n
Simon Edvinsson \u2014 Moritz Seider<\/p>\n
Ben Chiarot \u2014 Justin Faulk<\/p>\n
Albert Johansson \u2014 Jacob Bernard-Docker<\/p>\n
Goalies<\/p>\n
John Gibson (Michal Postava back up)<\/p>\n
Sub: Travis Hamonic<\/p>\n
Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n
Story: Former Detroit goalie Alex Lyon will be in net for Buffalo. He\u2019s been in the Vezina Trophy conversation of late. . . The Sabres have lost their last two games, although both were in overtime. They won four in a row before that. Injuries: Tanner Pearson (lower body), Jordan Greenway (middle body), Jiri Kulich (blood clot), Justin Danforth (lower body)<\/p>\n
Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Peyton Krebs \u2014 Tage Thompson \u2014 Alex Tuch<\/p>\n
Jason Zucker \u2014 Ryan McLeod \u2014 Jack Quinn<\/p>\n
Noah Ostlund \u2014 Josh Norris \u2014 Josh Doan<\/p>\n
Zach Benson \u2014 Sam Carrick \u2014 Beck Malenstyn<\/p>\n
Defense Pairings<\/p>\n
Mattias Samuelsson \u2014 Rasmus Dahlin<\/p>\n
Bowen Byram \u2014 Owen Power\u00a0<\/p>\n
Logan Stanley \u2014 Conor Timmins<\/p>\n
Goalies<\/p>\n
Alex Lyon (Colten Ellis is the backup)<\/p>\n
Subs: \u00a0Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, Michael Kesselring, Luke Schenn, Josh Dunne, Tyson Kozak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Red Wings (38-25-8) are on the road tonight to play the Atlantic Division-leading Buffalo Sabres (44-20-8).…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1107,229,5133,93,5,4,37137,1108],"class_list":{"0":"post-526381","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-detroit-red-wings","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-nhl-preview","15":"tag-sabres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116303096998937022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526381","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=526381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}