{"id":549035,"date":"2026-04-09T22:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549035\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:09:20","slug":"buffalo-sabres-goalie-alex-lyon-could-miss-start-of-playoffs-with-strained-lower-body-muscle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549035\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres goalie Alex Lyon could miss start of playoffs with strained lower body muscle"},"content":{"rendered":"

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Buffalo Sabres<\/a> goalie Alex Lyon<\/a> could miss the start of the playoffs due to a strained lower-body muscle.<\/p>\n

Coach Lindy Ruff<\/a> provided the update on Thursday, a day after Lyon was hurt during the team\u2019s pre-game skate ahead of Buffalo\u2019s 5-3 win at the New York Rangers<\/a>. Ruff said the initial prognosis is the goalie missing a week, while adding there is a chance he won\u2019t be available for the start of the playoffs, which are scheduled to open April 18-19.<\/p>\n

The Sabres, who host Columbus on Thursday night, are contending for the Atlantic Division title after clinching their first playoff berth in 15 seasons. <\/p>\n

The 33-year-old Lyon has gone 20-10-4 in his first season in Buffalo while sharing the starting duties with Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen<\/a>. Buffalo is carrying a third goalie, Colten Ellis<\/a>, who was scheduled to face Columbus in his first start since a 31-save outing in a 4-3 overtime loss at Tampa Bay on Feb. 3.<\/p>\n

Ellis entered the day with a 7-4-1 record, and would serve as Luukkonen\u2019s backup while Lyon is sidelined.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Buffalo Sabres goalie Alex Lyon could miss the start of the playoffs due to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1107,229,5133,5,4,1108,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-549035","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","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116377037290701124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549035","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=549035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}