{"id":633104,"date":"2026-07-29T08:17:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T08:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/633104\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T08:17:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T08:17:43","slug":"buffalo-sabres-announce-2026-preseason-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/633104\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres announce 2026 preseason schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Sabres will open their 2026 preseason on the road on September 21 against the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Sabres&#8217; preseason schedule will feature two home games and two road games.<\/p>\n<p>The full preseason schedule is:<\/p>\n<p>Monday, Sept. 21 at Pittsburgh \u2013 7 p.m.<br \/>\nTuesday, Sept. 22 vs. Columbus \u2013 7 p.m.<br \/>\nThursday, Sept. 24 at Detroit \u2013 7 p.m.<br \/>\nSaturday, Sept. 26 vs. Pittsburgh \u2013 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Ticket and broadcast information for the Sabres&#8217; home games will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres will next look ahead to the NHL Draft, which takes place on June 26-27 at the KeyBank Center. The Sabres recently <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/news\/2026\/06\/17\/sabres-swap-first-round-picks-with-sharks--ship-off-defenseman-kesselring\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquired<\/a> the 20th overall pick in next week&#8217;s NHL draft from the San Jose Sharks in exchange for the 27th pick and defenseman Michael Kesselring.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres now hold picks no. 20, 124, 156 and 188 in this year&#8217;s draft, which will be held in Buffalo on June 26-27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Sabres will open their 2026 preseason on the road on September 21 against the Pittsburgh Penguins.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[5894,1107,229,5133,5,40,4,2944,1108,43],"class_list":["post-633104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-buffalo-sabres","tag-brian-campbell","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-buffalosabres","tag-hockey","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-rochester","tag-sabres","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117002282262707269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633104","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=633104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}