GDT: 1/9/14 "Slug It Out" - Panthers VS Sabres

[Panthers Rock]

Get ready as your Florida Panthers take on the Buffalo Sabres! Game time at 7:00pm EST live from First Niagara Center!

Relive your childhood slug memories


TV: Live on FSN Florida and Center Ice.
Radio: Listen Live on 560 WQAM​

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[fieldset=Standings]

Link To Current NHL Standings
Florida:

Wins | Losses | OTL/SOL | Total Points
16 |21 |6 | 38

Buffalo:

Wins | Losses | OTL/SOL | Total Points
12|26|4|28

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[fieldset=Injuries]

Buffalo:

Player | Date Of Incident | Status |Injury
Cody McCormick |2013-12-15 |on injured reserve and is expected to miss 4-6 weeks |upper body
Kevin Porter| 2013-12-22 |on injured reserve| undisclosed
Henrik Tallinder| 2013-12-30| on injured reserve |upper body
Cody Hodgson |2014-01-01| on injured reserve| broken finger
Drew Stafford| 2014-01-03 |out indefinitely| upper body
Ville Leino| 2014-01-07 |questionable for Thursday's game against Florida| lower body
Tyler Myers| 2014-01-08 |suspended|N/A

Florida:​

Player | Date Of Incident | Status |Injury
Jesse Winchester |2013-12-16 |on injured reserve |bruised hand
Dylan Olsen|2014-01-03|on injured reserve|lower body
Alex Petrovic| 2014-01-05 |on injured reserve| upper body

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[fieldset=Line Combinations (Subject To Change)]

Buffalo:

LW |C| RW
Matt Moulson|Tyler Ennis|Zemgus Girgensons
Steve Ott|Johan Larsson|Matt D'Agostini
Linus Omark|Brian Flynn|Marcus Foligno
Matt Ellis|Zenon Konopka|Ville Leino

LD|RD
Mark Pysyk|Christian Ehrhoff
Jamie McBain|Brayden McNabb
Mike Weber|Alexander Sulzer

Florida:

LW| C |RW
Sean Bergenheim|Aleksander Barkov|Brad Boyes
Tomas Fleischmann|Nick Bjugstad|Scottie Upshall
Jonathan Huberdeau|Marcel Goc|Tomas Kopecky
Krys Barch|Drew Shore|Jimmy Hayes

LD|RD
Brian Campbell|Tom Gilbert
Erik Gudbranson|Ed Jovanovski
Dmitry Kulikov|Mike Weaver

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[fieldset=Expected Starting Goaltenders]

Buffalo:

Jhonas Enroth

GP | W | L | OTL | GAA | SV% | SO
13|1|8|3| 2.60| .910|0

VS.

Florida:

Tim Thomas

GP | W | L | OTL | GAA | SV% | SO
24|10|11|2| 2.68| .913|0

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[fieldset=Special Teams]

Buffalo:

PP%|PP Rank|PK%|PK Rank
13.0%|28th|82.1%|13th

Florida:

PP%|PP Rank|PK%|PK Rank
10.6%|30th|75.0%|29th

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[fieldset=Red Hot: Cat Of The Night]

Aleksander Barkov has been more than on fire, clicking with the Killer B's line, with 12 points in his last 12 games.​

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Last Game VS. Sabres


Last Game Played

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LET'S GO PANTHERS!!!!!!!!!!

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[kurpitsa]

Going to watch this game just to see how Bergenheim and Barkov are playing together.
I´m kinda pissed that Bergenheim didn´t make it to the Olympic team

Anyways hope you guys win!

 

[Ghoste]

I hope to see these bottom three lines:

Huby-Jugger-Shore
Flash-Goc-Kopy
Barch-Matthias-Upshall

-ghoste

 

[EnforceTheLaus]

Oh god Enroth's only win is against us. We played like wet poo vs them last time so hopefully we can get a win. This team never does anything easy so we'll see.


Also need Barkov on the scoresheet regardless.

 

[ShootIt]

Oh god Enroth's only win is against us. We played like wet poo vs them last time so hopefully we can get a win. This team never does anything easy so we'll see.


Also need Barkov on the scoresheet regardless.

That was on the 25th of October?

 

[EnforceTheLaus]

That was on the 25th of October?

Yeah. Death throes if Dineen's tenure and we still had Versteeg.

 

[GrumpyKelly]

Oh god Enroth's only win is against us. We played like wet poo vs them last time so hopefully we can get a win. This team never does anything easy so we'll see.


Also need Barkov on the scoresheet regardless.

Didn't they play pretty well the first two periods but just couldn't score? And then Markstrom let in that softie from the blueline

Anyway Barkov puts 3 in the G column tonight, guaranteed!

 

[ShootIt]

I really doubt Barkov gets a Hatty for a long time.

Hope I'm wrong though.

 

[Android 16]

A Barkov hatty is 3A

 

[Effe]

Didn't they play pretty well the first two periods but just couldn't score? And then Markstrom let in that softie from the blueline

Yeah we coldnt score and Enroth made 44 saves (out of 45)

 

[EnforceTheLaus]

Didn't they play pretty well the first two periods but just couldn't score? And then Markstrom let in that softie from the blueline

Anyway Barkov puts 3 in the G column tonight, guaranteed!

Powered by Bergy in the 1st and OK in the 2nd. Gave up real estate infront of the net too. Ott (!!) scored on a deflection wide open infront. I think Risto got an easy one in the 2nd and the 3rd was one of the worst periods this year.

 

[Egblad]

Need Huber to start dominating.

 

[GrumpyKelly]

I really doubt Barkov gets a Hatty for a long time.

 

[EnforceTheLaus]

I agree. Ye of little faith. Though tonight Shore gets his goal as does Campbell , and Barkov.

 

[gudzilla]

barkov hattrick is one goal without celebration, one assist without a celebration, and breaking up an odd-man rush

 

[TheImpatientPanther]

I hope to see these bottom three lines:

Huby-Jugger-Shore
Flash-Goc-Kopy
Barch-Matthias-Upshall

-ghoste

I agree. The chemistry of Huby and Shore looked still somewhat in tact the last game. If Bjugstad plays the way we know he can, this line can work. #11 just has to be more selfish and start shooting more, his last two games have shown he's kind of back on track for the time being. Bjugstad is due for a big game, I expect a good game, we need to remain within 10pts of a WC spot. We need more regulation wins from here on, that's one of the tiebreakers in the new format. Hoping the Killer B's are still buzzin tonight as well. Thomas vs Miller will be a good battle.

 

[EnforceTheLaus]

@goldieonice: Morning skate in Buffalo. #FlaPanthers looks like 20 16 24, 14 27 19, 11 57 82, 21 15 12 up front. 51 77, 7 43, 55 44 http://t.co/bYitStF6I1

Same lines but no Matthias, Hayes in for him.

 

[hockey dude]

@goldieonice: Morning skate in Buffalo. #FlaPanthers looks like 20 16 24, 14 27 19, 11 57 82, 21 15 12 up front. 51 77, 7 43, 55 44 http://t.co/bYitStF6I1

Same lines but no Matthias, Hayes in for him.

You're ****ing kidding me! Does Horacheck hate Matthias or what?

 

[Arson Daily]

i made a post about this earlier, but figured here would work as well... long time panther fan living in southern ontario trying to get to the game tonight, i have tickets, just need a ride. anyone feel like helping a hockey nerd out? i will shower you with gas money and hockey statistics.

<3

 

[Mogo]

Dont like it. Flash-Bjugs-Upshall just does not work. You can see how frustated Bjugs is with the line when he continues to go on 1 man missions to try to score because these two can't get er done. I would rather seen Barch benched than Matthias. Barch has been brutal lately.

 

[adam graves]

I also don't get why Coach wont continue with Shore on Jugs line, it doesn't make sense to me.

 

[CHGoalie27]

I also don't get why Coach wont continue with Shore on Jugs line, it doesn't make sense to me.

Agreed.

 

[EnforceTheLaus]

Dont like it. Flash-Bjugs-Upshall just does not work. You can see how frustated Bjugs is with the line when he continues to go on 1 man missions to try to score because these two can't get er done. I would rather seen Barch benched than Matthias. Barch has been brutal lately.

Against Buff we need Barch, especially with Guddy unable to fight.


I think Matthias out has more to do with Shore being a better asset right now. Hayes was benched last time, Shore before that, and now Matthias. I wouldn't be surprised to see the odd man out moved.

 

[Panthers Rock]

Scratching Matthias? But do you really think he's better than Hayes? I don't doubt Shore's ceiling is higher than Matthias. You know if anyone deserves to be benched, it's Flash, not Matthias.

 

[SoupyFIN]

Maybe I'm in the minority, but this pic makes it look like the arena has been dumped on some random field in the middle of nowhere.