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New York Islanders<\/a> (42-28-5, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Buffalo Sabres<\/a> (45-21-8, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n

Buffalo, New York; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Sabres -197, Islanders +163; over\/under is 6<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Buffalo Sabres host the New York Islanders after the Sabres beat the Seattle Kraken<\/a> 3-2 in a shootout.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> led the Sabres with two goals.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Rasmus Dahlin<\/a> has 17 goals and 50 assists for the Sabres. Jack Quinn<\/a> has five goals and three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Matthew Schaefer<\/a> has 22 goals and 34 assists for the Islanders. Mathew Barzal<\/a> 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<\/a>: out for season (ear), Justin Danforth<\/a>: out (lower body), Noah Ostlund: day to day (upper-body).<\/p>\n

Islanders: Alexander Romanov<\/a>: out (shoulder), Pierre Engvall<\/a>: out for season (ankle), Tony DeAngelo<\/a>: out (lower body), Semyon Varlamov: out for season (knee), Kyle Palmieri<\/a>: out (knee).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/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":117285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[6686,229,56683,5,122,4022,11079,9982,6814,776,1951,374,285,3328,159,5190,5189,4,6870,4011,5891],"class_list":{"0":"post-532531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-alexander-romanov","9":"tag-buffalo-sabres","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-islanders","13":"tag-jack-quinn","14":"tag-jason-zucker","15":"tag-jiri-kulich","16":"tag-justin-danforth","17":"tag-kyle-palmieri","18":"tag-mathew-barzal","19":"tag-matthew-schaefer","20":"tag-national-hockey-league","21":"tag-new-york","22":"tag-new-york-islanders","23":"tag-newyork","24":"tag-newyorkislanders","25":"tag-nhl","26":"tag-pierre-engvall","27":"tag-rasmus-dahlin","28":"tag-tony-deangelo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116323001835533817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532531","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=532531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}