Sabres Hope To Stay In The Race For First Place In Rematch With
4/6/26 – 7:00pm at KeyBank Center, in Buffalo, NY
Buffalo – 46-23-8 | – 100 points – 2nd place in the Atlantic Division
Tampa Bay – 48-22-6 | – 102 points – 1st place in the Atlantic Division
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Special Teams
Buffalo
Power Play – 20.8% (15th)
Penalty Kill – 82.1% (5th)
Tampa Bay
Power Play – 21.7% (14th)
Penalty Kill – 82.3% (4th)
Top Scorers
Buffalo
Tage Thompson: 77 GP, 38 G, 40 A, 78 PTS
Rasmus Dahlin: 73 GP, 18 G, 51 A, 69 PTS
Alex Tuch: 74 GP, 29 G, 32 A, 61 PTS
Tampa Bay
Nikita Kucherov: 70 GP, 42 G, 83 A, 125 PTS
Jake Guentzel: 76 GP, 36 G, 48 A, 84 PTS
Brandon Hagel: 69 GP, 35 G, 38 A, 73 PTS
Starting Goalies(projected)
Buffalo – Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (19-9-3, 2.57 GAA, .910 Sv %)
Tampa Bay – Andrei Vasilevskiy (37-13-4, 2.31 GAA, .912 Sv %)
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Sabres Line Combinations and Pairings (projected)
Forwards
Peyton Krebs – Tage Thompson – Josh Doan
Jason Zucker – Josh Norris – Alex Tuch
Zach Benson – Ryan McLeod – Jack Quinn
Jordan Greenway – Tyson Kozak – Beck Malenstyn
Ex. Tanner Pearson, Josh Dunne
Defense
Mattias Samuelsson – Rasmus Dahlin
Owen Power – Bowen Byram
Logan Stanley – Zach Metsa
Ex. Conor Timmins, Luke Schenn, Michael Kesselring
Goaltenders
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
Alex Lyon
Colten Ellis
Injuries
Justin Danforth (lower body, Oct. 18; injured reserve)
Jiri Kulich (blood clot, Nov. 4; injured reserve – out for the season)
Sam Carrick (upper body, Mar. 31; injured reserve)
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Noah Ostlund (upper body, Mar.25; day-to-day(
Notes
On April 4, Buffalo clinched a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2010-11. The Sabres have earned at least one point in 23 of their last 29 contests (20-6-3), including a league-best 14 wins and 30 points since the Olympic break.
Buffalo is on pace to record 106 points in 2025-26, which would be the
most points in a single season by the Sabres since 2006-07 (113). Since Dec. 9, the Sabres rank first among all NHL teams in wins (35) and…
