Buffalo Sabres (46-21-8, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Ottawa Senators (38-26-10, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Ottawa, Ontario; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Ottawa Senators will try to stop their three-game skid when they play the Buffalo Sabres.<\/p>\n
Ottawa has an 8-8-6 record in Atlantic Division play and a 38-26-10 record overall. The Senators are 10th in NHL play with 244 total goals (averaging 3.3 per game).<\/p>\n
Buffalo has a 15-5-4 record in Atlantic Division games and a 46-21-8 record overall. The Sabres have an 18-5-4 record when scoring a power-play goal.<\/p>\n
Thursday’s game is the third meeting between these teams this season. The Sabres won 3-2 in overtime in the last matchup. Bowen Byram led the Sabres with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Tim Stutzle has scored 32 goals with 43 assists for the Senators. Jordan Spence has two goals and six assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Tage Thompson has 38 goals and 40 assists for the Sabres. Sam Carrick has scored four goals and added one assist over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Senators: 6-3-1, averaging 3.1 goals, 4.9 assists, 3.8 penalties and 8.5 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Sabres: 6-2-2, averaging three goals, 4.8 assists, 4.1 penalties and 9.3 penalty minutes while giving up 2.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Senators: Dennis Gilbert: out (upper-body), Jake Sanderson: out (upper body), Thomas Chabot: out (forearm), Carter Yakemchuk: day to day (upper body), Nick Jensen: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n
Sabres: Jiri Kulich: out for season (ear), Sam Carrick: day to day (arm), Justin Danforth: out (lower body), Noah Ostlund: day to day (upper-body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Buffalo Sabres (46-21-8, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Ottawa Senators (38-26-10, in the Atlantic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5104],"tags":[5,4,72,25,5157,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-535752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa-senators","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-ottawa","11":"tag-ottawa-senators","12":"tag-ottawasenators","13":"tag-senators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116332517528699125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535752","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=535752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}