Buffalo Sabres (47-23-8, in the Atlantic Division) vs. New York Rangers (33-36-9, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
New York; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New York Rangers host the Buffalo Sabres after Will Cuylle\u2019s hat trick against the Washington Capitals in the Rangers\u2019 8-1 win.<\/p>\n
New York is 14-19-7 in home games and 33-36-9 overall. The Rangers have a -11 scoring differential, with 226 total goals scored and 237 conceded.<\/p>\n
Buffalo has gone 22-13-4 in road games and 47-23-8 overall. The Sabres have committed 301 total penalties (3.9 per game) to rank 10th in the league.<\/p>\n
The teams match up Wednesday for the third time this season. The Sabres won the previous meeting 5-2.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Mika Zibanejad has 33 goals and 42 assists for the Rangers. Conor Sheary has four goals and one assist over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Tage Thompson has 38 goals and 40 assists for the Sabres. Rasmus Dahlin has scored five goals and added five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 5-4-1, averaging 3.6 goals, 6.3 assists, 4.4 penalties and 11.3 penalty minutes while giving up 2.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Sabres: 5-3-2, averaging 3.2 goals, 5.4 assists, 4.3 penalties and 11.3 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Rangers: Matt Rempe: out for season (thumb), Urho Vaakanainen: out (upper-body).<\/p>\n
Sabres: Jiri Kulich: out for season (ear), Sam Carrick: out (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<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres (47-23-8, in the Atlantic Division) vs. New York Rangers (33-36-9, in the Metropolitan Division) New York;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[229,6856,37676,5,6814,1664,160,3328,7763,35,5190,5193,4,292,3388,36,4011,5920,43,1712,8036,109,3092],"class_list":{"0":"post-545193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-buffalo-sabres","9":"tag-conor-sheary","10":"tag-data-skrive","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-justin-danforth","13":"tag-matt-rempe","14":"tag-mika-zibanejad","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-rangers","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkrangers","20":"tag-nhl","21":"tag-nhl-hockey","22":"tag-noah-ostlund","23":"tag-rangers","24":"tag-rasmus-dahlin","25":"tag-sam-carrick","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-tage-thompson","28":"tag-urho-vaakanainen","29":"tag-washington-capitals","30":"tag-will-cuylle"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116362543676043152","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545193","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=545193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}