{"id":551743,"date":"2026-04-13T10:42:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/551743\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:42:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:42:39","slug":"nhl-game-preview-buffalo-sabres-at-chicago-blackhawks-with-line-combinations-04-13-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/551743\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Buffalo Sabres at Chicago Blackhawks with Line Combinations 04\/13\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled-design-25.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Melissa Tamez<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo Sabres (49-23-8, 106 pts) at\u00a0Chicago Blackhawks (28-38-14, 70 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: United Center<br \/>Date: Monday, April 13<br \/>Time: 8:30 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch: ESPN+\/MSG-B\/CHSN<br \/>Radio: 550 WGR AM\/KSL Sports Zone 1280 AM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/5142595\/264167\/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Buffalo Sabres News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">The Sabres picked up their third straight on Thursday with a 5-0 win over the Blue Jackets. During the winning streak, they\u2019re averaging 4.7 goals per game while allowing 1.7 goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Blackhawks are trending the opposite way of the Sabres as they dropped their third straight on Saturday in a 5-3 loss to the Blues. During their skid, they\u2019re averaging 2.3 goals per game while allowing five goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Buffalo Sabres Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Krebs-Thompson-Tuch<br \/>Zucker-McLeod-Quinn<br \/>Benson-Norris-Doan<br \/>Greenway-Kozak-Malenstyn<\/p>\n<p>Samuelsson-Dahlin<br \/>Byram-Power<br \/>Stanley-Metsa<\/p>\n<p>Luukkonen<br \/>Ellis<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Buffalo&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get Your Buffalo Hockey Merchandise here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Greene -Bedard-Lardis <br \/>Bertuzzi-Frondell-Mikheyev<br \/>Donato-Nazar-Burakovsky<br \/>Mangiapane-Boisvert-Teravainen <\/p>\n<p>Vlasic-Crevier<br \/>Kaiser-Rinzel<br \/>Korchinski-Lafferty<\/p>\n<p>Soderblom<br \/>Knight<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Chicago&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Chicago Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n<p>Jason Zucker had a goal and two assists in the Sabres\u2019 win over the Blackhawks back in November.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Bertuzzi had two goals in Chicago\u2019s loss to Buffalo back on November 21st. <\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">F Noah Ostlund\u00a0\u2013 DTD<br \/>F\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/jiri-kulich\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jiri Kulich<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>F\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/justin-danforth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Danforth<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>F Sam Carrick \u2013 DTD<br \/>G Alex Lyon \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n<p>F Oliver Moore \u2013 Out<br \/>D Artyom Levshunov \u2013 DTD<br \/>D Matt Grzelchyk \u2013 DTD<br \/>D Ethan Del Mastro \u2013 DTD<br \/>F Frank Nazar \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>\tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Photo\/Melissa Tamez Buffalo Sabres (49-23-8, 106 pts) at\u00a0Chicago Blackhawks (28-38-14, 70 pts) Venue: United CenterDate: Monday, April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[2216,1107,229,5133,1843,96,5,5236,11079,4,5573,1108,9793],"class_list":{"0":"post-551743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-sabres","8":"tag-atlantic-division","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-sabres","11":"tag-buffalosabres","12":"tag-central-division","13":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-injury-report","16":"tag-jason-zucker","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-nhl-game-preview","19":"tag-sabres","20":"tag-tyler-bertuzzi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116396986363960860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551743","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=551743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}