New York Islanders (42-28-5, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Buffalo Sabres (45-21-8, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Buffalo, New York; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Buffalo Sabres host the New York Islanders after the Sabres beat the Seattle Kraken 3-2 in a shootout.<\/p>\n
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Buffalo is 45-21-8 overall and 23-10-4 at home. The Sabres are 10th in the league serving 9.6 penalty minutes per game.<\/p>\n
New York has a 42-28-5 record overall and a 21-15-3 record in road games. The Islanders have a 30-7-3 record when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n
Tuesday’s game is the third time these teams square off this season. The Sabres won 5-0 in the previous matchup. Jason Zucker led the Sabres with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Rasmus Dahlin has 17 goals and 50 assists for the Sabres. Jack Quinn has five goals and three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
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Matthew Schaefer has 22 goals and 34 assists for the Islanders. Mathew Barzal has one goal and six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Sabres: 6-2-2, averaging 3.2 goals, 5.3 assists, 4.2 penalties and 9.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Islanders: 5-5-0, averaging 2.7 goals, 4.9 assists, 2.9 penalties and 8.6 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Sabres: Jiri Kulich: out for season (ear), Justin Danforth: out (lower body), Noah Ostlund: day to day (upper-body).<\/p>\n
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Islanders: Alexander Romanov: out (shoulder), Pierre Engvall: out for season (ankle), Tony DeAngelo: out (lower body), Semyon Varlamov: out for season (knee), Kyle Palmieri: out (knee).<\/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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Islanders (42-28-5, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Buffalo Sabres (45-21-8, in the Atlantic Division) Buffalo, New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[6686,2216,1107,229,5133,5,4022,11079,9982,6814,776,1951,374,2218,3328,159,4,3388,3650,6870,4011,1108,234,6235,4937,5891],"class_list":["post-532495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-buffalo-sabres","tag-alexander-romanov","tag-atlantic-division","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-buffalosabres","tag-hockey","tag-jack-quinn","tag-jason-zucker","tag-jiri-kulich","tag-justin-danforth","tag-kyle-palmieri","tag-mathew-barzal","tag-matthew-schaefer","tag-metropolitan-division","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl","tag-noah-ostlund","tag-penalty-minutes","tag-pierre-engvall","tag-rasmus-dahlin","tag-sabres","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-semyon-varlamov","tag-the-islanders","tag-tony-deangelo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116322815591275096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532495","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=532495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}