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GDT: Game 38: Sabres vs Blues - 12/27 8pm ET (MSG-B, WGR 550)

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Game Preview: 12/27/18 at St. Louis

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LAST GAME
Saturday, December 22
Anaheim 0 at Buffalo 3
Goals: Dahlin, Skinner, Sheary
Goalie: Ullmark (40 saves/40 shots)
PP: 1/4; PK: 3/3; Shots: Anaheim 40 – Buffalo 33

CURRENT INJURIES – (Man Games Lost: 147)
Player (injury, first game missed) – total games missed
Scott Wilson (ankle, Oct. 4; injured reserve) – 37 games
Casey Nelson (upper body, Dec. 8; injured reserve) – 8 games
Nathan Beaulieu (lower body, Dec. 16) – 4 games
Jason Pominville (undisclosed, Dec. 21; injured reserve) – 2 games

TRANSACTIONS IN PAST 7 DAYS
12/21: Activated D Jake McCabe and D Lawrence Pilut from IR; Placed F Jason Pominville on IR
12/22: Assigned D Brendan Guhle to Rochester (AHL)

UPCOMING GAMES
Saturday, Dec. 29: Boston at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 31: NY Islanders at Buffalo, 6 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 3: Florida at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 5: Buffalo at Boston, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 8: New Jersey at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

TONIGHT’S GAME
SABRES at BLUES
  • This is the first of two meetings between the Sabres and Blues this season.
  • Next meeting: Sunday, March 17, 2019 in Buffalo
  • Last meeting: St. Louis defeated Buffalo 1-0 in St. Louis on Feb. 3
  • The Sabres are 1-7-2 in their last 10 games vs. the Blues, 1-5-4 on the road.
  • This is the 119th game all-time between Buffalo and St. Louis; Buffalo has a 46-55-17 series record.
  • The Sabres are 15-32-11 on the road against the Blues all-time.
THIS DAY IN SABRES HISTORY
  • The Sabres are 13-7-3 all-time on December 27.
  • December 27, 1991: Dave Andreychuk and Pat LaFontaine each score twice and Clint Malarchuk makes 38 saves in an 8-1 victory over the Boston Bruins at The Aud.
  • December 27, 2003: Jason Pominville makes his NHL debut in a 3-1 win at Washington.
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You have to think RoR gets at least a goal. It's only fitting. Hopefully they show up tonight. They played a solid weekend of hockey last week. Unfortunately, they'll need to continue stacking points in this division; it's ruthless.
 
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TEAM SNAPSHOTS

BLUES David Perron, Tyler Bozak and Oskar Sundqvist scored for the Blues and Jake Allen did the rest with a stellar 28-save performance - especially under heavy pressure in the second period - as the Blues handed Calgary a 3-1 defeat at the Scotiabank Saddledome in their last game on Saturday afternoon.

The win capped off a 2-1-0 road trip for the Blues to Western Canada.

St. Louis now has collected points in six of the last nine games (5-3-1).

"It's a great feeling for us, especially with how the year has gone," Allen said after Saturday's game. "To be able to get two of three on this road trip, with three or four days off … if we would've lost this one, it would've been a tougher break thinking about that loss the whole time. It was a good way to finish."

The Blues had four full days off for the holiday break.

SABRES The Buffalo Sabres finished dead-last in the 2017-18 season, but it's certainly been a different story in 2018-19.

Through 37 games this season, the Sabres have a 21-11-5 record, good for third in the Atlantic Division. Only the Tampa Bay Lightning and Toronto Maple Leafs rank ahead of the Sabres in the Atlantic.

Jack Eichel is leading his club with 48 points this season (14 goals, 34 assists) - a full 10 points ahead of the next closest, Jeff Skinner, who was acquired in August in a trade with the Carolina Hurricanes.

The Sabres also have 20 points (four goals, 16 assists) from the top overall pick in the 2017 NHL draft, Rasmus Dahlin.

The Sabres also have three former Blues currently on the roster - Carter Hutton joined the Sabres as a free agent and is 13-10-2 with a 2.58 goals-against average and a .917 save-percentage this season. Vladimir Sobotka, who went to Buffalo in the deal that brought Ryan O'Reilly to St. Louis, has three goals and two assists in 34 games this season. Tage Thompson, who also was acquired by Buffalo in the O'Reilly deal, has four goals and three assists in 30 games.



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Morning Skate: December 27, 2018 from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM at Enterprise Center
 
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Dreakon13 said:
Game Preview: 12/27/18 at St. Louis

Source: SabresDigitalPressBox.com

LAST GAME
Saturday, December 22
Anaheim 0 at Buffalo 3
Goals: Dahlin, Skinner, Sheary
Goalie: Ullmark (40 saves/40 shots)
PP: 1/4; PK: 3/3; Shots: Anaheim 40 – Buffalo 33

CURRENT INJURIES – (Man Games Lost: 147)
Player (injury, first game missed) – total games missed
Scott Wilson (ankle, Oct. 4; injured reserve) – 37 games
Casey Nelson (upper body, Dec. 8; injured reserve) – 8 games
Nathan Beaulieu (lower body, Dec. 16) – 4 games
Jason Pominville (undisclosed, Dec. 21; injured reserve) – 2 games

TRANSACTIONS IN PAST 7 DAYS
12/21: Activated D Jake McCabe and D Lawrence Pilut from IR; Placed F Jason Pominville on IR
12/22: Assigned D Brendan Guhle to Rochester (AHL)

UPCOMING GAMES
Saturday, Dec. 29: Boston at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 31: NY Islanders at Buffalo, 6 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 3: Florida at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 5: Buffalo at Boston, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 8: New Jersey at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

TONIGHT’S GAME
SABRES at BLUES
  • This is the first of two meetings between the Sabres and Blues this season.
  • Next meeting: Sunday, March 17, 2019 in Buffalo
  • Last meeting: St. Louis defeated Buffalo 1-0 in St. Louis on Feb. 3
  • The Sabres are 1-7-2 in their last 10 games vs. the Blues, 1-5-4 on the road.
  • This is the 119th game all-time between Buffalo and St. Louis; Buffalo has a 46-55-17 series record.
  • The Sabres are 15-32-11 on the road against the Blues all-time.
THIS DAY IN SABRES HISTORY
  • The Sabres are 13-7-3 all-time on December 27.
  • December 27, 1991: Dave Andreychuk and Pat LaFontaine each score twice and Clint Malarchuk makes 38 saves in an 8-1 victory over the Boston Bruins at The Aud.
  • December 27, 2003: Jason Pominville makes his NHL debut in a 3-1 win at Washington.
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We travelled today for night game. We lose travelling day of game. Book it.
 
tsujimoto74

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If we're ever gonna get some secondary scoring, this is a good game for it --- Allen isn't that hard to score on. Let's go Buffalo!
 
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If we're ever gonna get some secondary scoring, this is a good game for it --- Allen isn't that hard to score on. Let's go Buffalo!
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So goals from Jack's line, a defenseman, and Larry's line it is. The unscorable objects on lines 2 and 3 are going to need to be fired into space -- the void, not the sun. Being shot into the sun implies they'd actually hit their target... so... yeah... best not to be disappointed.
 
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Eichel channel's his inner Baker Mayfield, scores a hatrick and engages in a 5 second pre-faceoff staredown with ROR at center ice. Hockey purists and Don Cherry are outraged and demand that Eichel be sent to Guantanamo Bay.
 
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What the hell is Elie still doing in a place olofsson, Smith, nylander, my mother could be.

Seriously, he was a nice stop gap while we figured out what we have. Now we know; let’s not take another season to figure out that this year’s Jordan Nolan shouldn’t be playing regular minutes
 
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