{"id":551567,"date":"2026-04-13T05:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/551567\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T05:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:39:14","slug":"sabres-at-blackhawks-how-to-watch-lineup-notes-and-storylines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/551567\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres at Blackhawks | How to watch, lineup notes, and storylines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2013 The Buffalo Sabres take on the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday at 8:30 p.m. EDT at United Center.<\/p>\n<p>Two regular season games remain for Buffalo to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/sabres\/news\/buffalo-sabres-practice-power-play-alex-tuch-noah-ostlund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reignite its power play<\/a> and finalize the best lineup for Game 1 of the playoffs, but the math now is simple:<\/p>\n<p>Two more points will secure home-ice advantage in the first round.<br \/>\nThree more points will secure an Atlantic Division title.<\/p>\n<p>The Stanley Cup Playoffs start this weekend, and the Sabres will finally be participating. For now, though, it\u2019s business as usual for coach Lindy Ruff and his team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve talked about where we wanted to be, and this is where we want to be,\u201d Ruff said. \u201cWe know hard it\u2019s been, and we know how hard it\u2019s going to continue to be. It\u2019s not taking anything for granted. We\u2019ve love to win these last two games. We focus in on Chicago and go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here are all the details before Monday\u2019s puck drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2013 The Buffalo Sabres take on the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday at 8:30 p.m. EDT at United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[521,37,96,5263,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-551567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-blackhawks","8":"tag-blackhawks","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","11":"tag-chicagoblackhawks","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116395793727351483","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551567","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=551567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}