GDT: Game 45: Lightning @ Sabres - 1/12 7pm ET (MSG-B, WGR 550)

[Dreakon13]

Game Preview: 1/12/19 vs. Tampa Bay

LAST GAME
Friday, January 11
Buffalo 3 at Carolina 4
Goals: Skinner, Pominville, Okposo
Goalie: Hutton (26 saves/30 shots)
PP: 1/4; PK: 2/2; Shots: Buffalo 33 – Carolina 30

CURRENT INJURIES – (Man Games Lost: 169)
Player (injury, first game missed) – total games missed
Casey Nelson (upper body, Dec. 8; injured reserve) – 15 games

TRANSACTIONS IN PAST 7 DAYS
1/8: Activated F Zemgus Girgensons from IR; Placed F Jack Eichel on IR; Placed F Scott Wilson on waivers
1/9: Assigned F Scott Wilson to Rochester (AHL)
1/11: Activated F Jack Eichel from IR; Assigned F C.J. Smith to Rochester (AHL)

UPCOMING GAMES
Monday, Jan. 14: Buffalo at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 16: Buffalo at Calgary, 9:30 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 18: Buffalo at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 29: Buffalo at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 30: Buffalo at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

TONIGHT’S GAME
LIGHTNING at SABRES

• This is the third of four meetings between the Sabres and Lightning this season.
• Last meeting: Tampa Bay defeated Buffalo 5-4 in Tampa Bay on Nov. 29, 2018
• Next meeting: Thursday, Feb. 21 at Tampa Bay
• The Sabres are 3-6-1 in their last 10 games vs. the Lightning; 3-5-2 at home.
• This is the 101st game all-time between Buffalo and Tampa Bay; Buffalo has a 55-37-8 series record.
• The Sabres are 26-18-5 at home against the Lightning all-time.

THIS DAY IN SABRES HISTORY

• The Sabres are 11-7-3 all-time on January 12.
• January 12, 1978: Gilbert Perreault scores all three Sabres goals to collect his fourth hat trick of the season in a 6-3 loss at Cleveland.

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW

• The Sabres are 5-2-2 at home against the Atlantic Division this season.
• Rasmus Ristolainen has recorded an assist in four of his last five games against Tampa Bay.
• Sam Reinhart has recorded five points (4+1) in his last five games against the Lightning.
• Reinhart has already set career-high totals in assists (31) and multi-point games (13) this season. The Sabres are 17-5-4 this season when he records at least one point and 28-4-6 (.816) in his career when he records at least two.
• With his 211th goal as a member of the Sabres last night at Carolina, Jason Pominville has tied Alexander Mogilny for 11th-most in franchise history. He now trails 10th-place Don Luce by five goals.

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[Aladyyn]

4-1 win, let's go

 

[Mike McDermott]

I have a bad feeling this game will be ugly.

 

[RobRayzor]

Let's try to score on the correct net this time please.

 

[5 Minute Major]

Ullmark needs to steal one.

 

[MackAttack26]

Find a way. Any way.

 

[ZZamboni]

I’m gonna be a glass half full guy ... 4-3 Sabres win tonight.

 

[EichHart]

The only way I see us winning this is if the entire lightning lineup gets the flu.

 

[Taro Tsujimoto]

Sabres on the second half of a back to back while the Lightning have been sitting here for roughly 24 hours. Thanks, NHL schedule makers.

 

[sabremike]

Sabres on the second half of a back to back while the Lightning have been sitting here for roughly 24 hours. Thanks, NHL schedule makers.

You can't cry about the schedule when we were handed the same exact advantage last night and proceeded to completely f*** it up in spectacular fashion.

 

[debaser66]

No prediction from me since my last ones went down the Zamboni.

At least this one doesnt sting like losing to an inferior team, should they continue on yesterdays path.

 

[debaser66]

Sabres on the second half of a back to back while the Lightning have been sitting here for roughly 24 hours. Thanks, NHL schedule makers.

They ll be rusty

 

[ek93]

The only way I see us winning this is if the entire lightning lineup gets the flu.

The Syracuse Crunch could probably still give us a run for our money right now...

 

[Hasek]

3-1 good guys.

 

[kirby11]

I have a bad feeling we get blown out 5-2 or worse

 

[littletonhockeycoach]

Sabres on the second half of a back to back while the Lightning have been sitting here for roughly 24 hours. Thanks, NHL schedule makers.

We've seen a lot of this nonsense level scheduling this season. And don't have th Olympics or some other excuse to blame. I've been told there's something in the collective bargaining agreement about breaks that the NHLPA wanted that is a factor here but I dunno...

 

[Dubi Doo]

They really could have gained some ground if they won last night. Such a pitiful effort when so much was on the line. Hopefully they can get a point tonight

 

[littletonhockeycoach]

They ll be rusty

Salty ocean air leaving rust deposits on their stainless steel blades???

(I know you were being sarcastic.... Me too!)

 

[littletonhockeycoach]

They really could have gained some ground if they won last night. Such a pitiful effort when so much was on the line. Hopefully they can get a point tonight

If they do, it will be on the back of Ullmark more than anything else.

 

[Gabrielor]

Please win? Somehow?

 

[littletonhockeycoach]

You can't cry about the schedule when we were handed the same exact advantage last night and proceeded to completely **** it up in spectacular fashion.

Really. It wasn't that they were unlucky (like the GBU indicated), it was lack of effort. One of the poorer games they've played this season. Out worked, out hustled, out performed. By an inferior team......

 

[Dubi Doo]

Really. It wasn't that they were unlucky (like the GBU indicated), it was lack of effort. One of the poorer games they've played this season. Out worked, out hustled, out performed. By an inferior team......

That's what sucked. They Canes looked beatable, but we just didnt put it all on the line.

 

[littletonhockeycoach]

Unless the Bolts just mail it in, there will be absolutely no time or space for the Sabres to operate in.

And this team does not play that style of game well. They have to be be quick, intense, accurate, precise and FAST tonight to even be competitive if Tampa brings their A game.

I've seen us play that way this season but not very often and not recently.

 

[EichHart]

Domingue is starting, there is actually a chance we can win this at home.

 

[SundherDome]

7 - 1 Buffalo

Okposo
Eichel
Skinner x2
Girgensons
Dahlin
Bogo

Point

Because this f***ing team...