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’s hat trick against the Washington Capitals in the Rangers’ 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 and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Buffalo Sabres (47-23-8, in the Atlantic Division) vs. New York Rangers (33-36-9, in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5111],"tags":[5,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-545433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-rangers","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkrangers","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-rangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116363349571324939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545433","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=545433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545433\/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=545433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}