#Washington [](/r/caps) Capitals (29-26-6) at Buffalo [](/r/sabres) Sabres (30-23-4)
#KeyBank Center
##Time
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###Projected Lineups
||Left|Center|Right||Left|Center|Right|
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|[](/r/sabres)|Jeff Skinner|Tage Thompson|Kyle Okposo|[](/r/caps)|Alex Ovechkin|Evgeny Kuznetsov|Tom Wilson|
|[](/r/sabres)|John Jason Peterka|Dylan Cozens|Jack Quinn|[](/r/caps)|Sonny Milano|Dylan Strome|T.J. Oshie|
|[](/r/sabres)|Casey Mittelstadt|Tyson Jost|Victor Olofsson|[](/r/caps)|Conor Sheary|Nicklas Backstrom|Craig Smith|
|[](/r/sabres)|Zemgus Girgensons|Peyton Krebs|Vinnie Hinostroza|[](/r/caps)|Lars Eller|Nic Dowd|Nicolas Aube-Kubel|
||Left D|Right D||Left D|Right D|
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|[](/r/sabres)|Rasmus Dahlin|Mattias Samuelsson|[](/r/caps)|Martin Fehervary|Nick Jensen|
|[](/r/sabres)|Owen Power|Kale Clague|[](/r/caps)|Erik Gustafsson|Trevor van Riemsdyk|
|[](/r/sabres)|Ilya Lyubushkin|Jacob Bryson|[](/r/caps)|Matt Irwin|Dylan McIlrath|
||Goalies||Goalies|
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|[](/r/sabres)|Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen|[](/r/caps)|Charlie Lindgren|
|[](/r/sabres)|Eric Comrie|[](/r/caps)|Darcy Kuemper|
###Injuries
||Player|Date|Injury|Status|Details|Return|
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|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Alex Tuch|25 Feb 2023|Undisclosed|IR|Tuch (undisclosed) was placed on injured reserve Saturday, Lance Lysowski of The Buffalo News reports.|04 Mar 2023|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Ben Bishop||Knee|IR-LT|Surgery|01 Aug 2023|
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|[WSH](/r/caps)|Marcus Johansson|25 Feb 2023|Illness|OUT|Johansson has a non-COVID illness and will be out of the lineup Saturday versus the New York Rangers.|unknown|
|[WSH](/r/caps)|Anthony Mantha|21 Feb 2023|Upper Body|IR|Mantha (upper body) was placed on injured reserve Thursday, Tarik El-Bashir of The Athletic reports.|01 Mar 2023|
|[WSH](/r/caps)|Kody Clark||Quadriceps|IR-NR|Surgery|15 Sep 2023|
|[WSH](/r/caps)|Connor Brown||Knee|IR-LT|Surgery|01 May 2023|
|[WSH](/r/caps)|Carl Hagelin|16 Feb 2023|Hip|IR-LT|Surgery|15 Sep 2023|
|[WSH](/r/caps)|John Carlson|20 Feb 2023|Face|IR-LT|Carlson (face) was on the ice in full gear prior to Monday’s practice, Tarik El-Bashir of The Athletic reports.|15 Mar 2023|
###Team Stats
|Team|GP|W|L|OT|P|P%|G/G|GA/G|PP%|PK%|S/G|SA/G|FO%|
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|[Sabres](/r/sabres)|57|30|23|4|64|56.1|3.71929|3.47368|25.3|73.0|32.26315|32.92982|45.5|
|[Capitals](/r/caps)|61|29|26|6|64|52.4|3.0|2.91803|20.9|81.8|31.50819|30.03278|49.7|
##Watch, Listen and Talk:
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|TV|NHLN, MSG-B, NBCSWA|
|Listen|[WSH](https://www.nhl.com/video/c-000999115) – [BUF](https://www.nhl.com/video/c-00099917)|
|Other-Away|[Preview](http://Capitals.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/preview?id=2022020947) – [Boxscore](http://Capitals.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/boxscore?id=2022020947) – [Recap](http://Capitals.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/recap?id=2022020947)|
|Other-Home|[Preview](http://Sabres.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/preview?id=2022020947) – [Boxscore](http://Sabres.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/boxscore?id=2022020947) – [Recap](http://Sabres.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/recap?id=2022020947)|
|GameCenter|[On NHL.com](https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/2022020947)|
by HockeyMod
25 Comments
I genuinely feel when the Sabres score, the opposing team has like a 95% chance of scoring within 5 minutes lol
What is that rebound UPL. We always have to score 5-6 to win this is unsustainable
Nasty
UPL is struggling laterally BIG TIME. Definitely not comfortable at all.
Fuuuuck! Lucky bounce
Time to get UPL back to Roch. He’s just bad.
Embarrassing
UPL has some of the worst rebound control my god
UPL struggling. I think he needs time to work on his lateral movement in Rochester… Gibson sounds interesting at this point
I mean there’s a reason we’re in a race with the caps for the wildcard.
Team gives up 50 shots last game. Anderson makes 49 saves. Team gives up 11so dar today and upl lets in 2. What does it mean? I don’t know. I just want the goalie to make a save.
shitty
UPL’s rebounds average about 10 feet. He’s also out of position too much. The defense has been awful but UPL is not the answer. He can maybe be a back up to Levi next year. So much hype so little reality.
NHL network announcer just said Jack Quinn is known as a mostly defensive forward. I can’t.
Whatever spark Upie had is gone, but I’m not terribly worried as I still think he’s a big part of the future. Just frustrating in,the immediate. Donnie and GMKA need to get this defense sorted in the offseason, though
I am working today and can’t watch the game, how do we look so far?
Can’t watch, how have we been playing?? I know it’s 2-2, just curious if our offense has been generating a lot of good chances or if we’ve been lacking defensively/with goaltending so far.
I have no gripes about Luukkonen. But it is really impressive and exciting that this team is in the playoff hunt with below average goalie stats.
The crowd sounds so good, I can’t even imagine what it’ll sound like if the Sabres get in the playoffs. It’ll be fucking bananas.
Send Clague home. Forever. I’d rather risk having Pilut in his spot than constantly giving opposing teams golden turnovers.
Tell ya boys, theres an awful lot of us in the streaming site chats cheering
We would never lose again if we had average defense and goaltending
We’re gonna miss tuch
I hate how I have to buy ESPN+ but can’t watch non-ESPN+ games legally. So stupid.
Has anyone else’s msg go feed been terribly poor all game or is my internet just buns