{"id":546224,"date":"2026-04-07T21:13:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546224\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:13:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:13:23","slug":"buffalo-sabres-open-thread-wk-of-4-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546224\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres Open Thread, Wk of 4\/6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/USATSI_28672176.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apr 6, 2026; Buffalo, New York, USA;  Buffalo Sabres right wing Alex Tuch (89) looks to take a shot on goal as Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Charle-Edouard D&#8217;Astous (51) defends during the second period at KeyBank Center. Mandatory Credit: Timothy T. Ludwig-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>As the regular season is rounding out to a close, the games are ramping up in intensity as well. The Buffalo Sabres had a huge regulation win over Tampa on Monday night, and with Montreal right in the mix for the division lead, it\u2019s going to stay pretty tense. This is the situation as of Tuesday morning. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/HFTCWqmaUAAxm0j.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mon, Apr 7th, 7pm ET \u2013 Buffalo Sabres (46-23-8) vs Tampa Bay Lightning (48-22-6)<br \/>Wed, Apr 8th, 7pm ET \u2013 Buffalo Sabres at New York Rangers (33-36-9)<br \/>Thu, Apr 9th, 7pm ET \u2013 Buffalo Sabres vs Columbus Blue Jackets (38-27-12)<\/p>\n<p>The Amerks started the week off dreadfully with two regulation losses, but were able to turn things around with an overtime win.<\/p>\n<p>Mon, Apr 6th, 7pm ET \u2013 Rochester Americans (29-27-5-4) at Cleveland Monsters (35-25-6-2)<br \/>Wed, Apr 8th, 7pm ET \u2013 Rochester Americans at Syracuse Crunch (39-21-3-4)<br \/>Fri, Apr 10th 7:05pm ET \u2013 Rochester Americans at Springfield Thunderbirds (29-29-6-2) <br \/>Sat, Apr 11th 7:05pm ET \u2013 Rochester Americans at Providence Bruins (51-14-2-0)<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 6, 2026; Buffalo, New York, USA; Buffalo Sabres right wing Alex Tuch (89) looks to take a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1107,229,5133,5,4,1108],"class_list":{"0":"post-546224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-sabres","8":"tag-buffalo","9":"tag-buffalo-sabres","10":"tag-buffalosabres","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-sabres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116365493875565152","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546224","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=546224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}