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Game Thread: Buffalo Sabres (34-31-6) at New York Islanders (37-27-9) – 25 Mar 2023 – 05:00PM EDT



#Buffalo [](/r/sabres) Sabres (34-31-6) at New York [](/r/newyorkislanders) Islanders (37-27-9)

#UBS Arena

##Time

|PT|MT|CT|ET|AT|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|02:00PM|03:00PM|04:00PM|05:00PM|06:00PM|#In-Game Updates

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###Projected Lineups

||Left|Center|Right||Left|Center|Right|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[](/r/newyorkislanders)|Anders Lee|Bo Horvat|Simon Holmstrom|[](/r/sabres)|Jeff Skinner|Tage Thompson|Alex Tuch|
|[](/r/newyorkislanders)|Pierre Engvall|Brock Nelson|Kyle Palmieri|[](/r/sabres)|John Jason Peterka|Dylan Cozens|Jack Quinn|
|[](/r/newyorkislanders)|Zach Parise|Jean-Gabriel Pageau|Hudson Fasching|[](/r/sabres)|Casey Mittelstadt|Tyson Jost|Victor Olofsson|
|[](/r/newyorkislanders)|Matt Martin|Casey Cizikas|Cal Clutterbuck|[](/r/sabres)|Zemgus Girgensons|Peyton Krebs|Kyle Okposo|

||Left D|Right D||Left D|Right D|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[](/r/newyorkislanders)|Adam Pelech|Scott Mayfield|[](/r/sabres)|Rasmus Dahlin|Henri Jokiharju|
|[](/r/newyorkislanders)|Alexander Romanov|Ryan Pulock|[](/r/sabres)|Owen Power|Ilya Lyubushkin|
|[](/r/newyorkislanders)|Samuel Bolduc|Noah Dobson|[](/r/sabres)|Kale Clague|Jacob Bryson|

||Goalies||Goalies|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[](/r/newyorkislanders)|Semyon Varlamov|[](/r/sabres)|Craig Anderson|
|[](/r/newyorkislanders)|Ilya Sorokin|[](/r/sabres)|Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen|

###Injuries

||Player|Date|Injury|Status|Details|Return|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[NYI](/r/newyorkislanders)|Sebastian Aho|18 Mar 2023|Upper Body|OUT|Aho (upper body) will not play Friday against the Columbus Blue Jackets, Andrew Gross of Newsday reports.|unknown|
|[NYI](/r/newyorkislanders)|Mathew Barzal|18 Feb 2023|Lower Body|OUT|Not Specified|27 Mar 2023|
|[NYI](/r/newyorkislanders)|Oliver Wahlstrom|19 Feb 2023|Lower Body|IR|It’s looking more and more like Wahlstrom (lower body) won’t return this season, Andrew Gross of Newsday reports.|29 Mar 2023|
|–|–|–|–|–|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Tage Thompson|24 Mar 2023|Undisclosed|DTD|Thompson (undisclosed) is considered questionable for Saturday’s game against the New York Islanders, Bill Hoppe of the Olean Times Herald reports.|unknown|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Vinnie Hinostroza|23 Mar 2023|Personal|OUT|Hinostroza (personal) won’t be in the lineup Friday versus New Jersey, according to Lance Lysowski of The Buffalo News.|unknown|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Jordan Greenway|20 Mar 2023|Upper Body|OUT|Greenway (upper body) practiced Thursday but is not ready to return to the lineup, Sabres beat reporter Joe Yerdon reports.|unknown|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Mattias Samuelsson|12 Mar 2023|Upper Body|OUT|Samuelsson is week-to-week with an upper-body injury, per Heather Engel of NHL.com.|27 Mar 2023|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Ben Bishop||Knee|IR-LT|Surgery|01 Aug 2023|

###Team Stats

|Team|GP|W|L|OT|P|P%|G/G|GA/G|PP%|PK%|S/G|SA/G|FO%|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[Islanders](/r/newyorkislanders)|73|37|27|9|83|56.8|3.0|2.71232|16.7|81.5|30.61643|31.27397|50.8|
|[Sabres](/r/sabres)|71|34|31|6|74|52.1|3.59154|3.73239|24.5|72.1|32.11267|33.01408|45.2|

##Watch, Listen and Talk:

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|TV|ESPN+, HULU|
|Listen|[BUF](https://www.nhl.com/video/c-00099917) – [NYI](https://www.nhl.com/video/c-00099912)|
|Other-Away|[Preview](http://Sabres.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/preview?id=2022021157) – [Boxscore](http://Sabres.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/boxscore?id=2022021157) – [Recap](http://Sabres.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/recap?id=2022021157)|
|Other-Home|[Preview](http://Islanders.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/preview?id=2022021157) – [Boxscore](http://Islanders.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/boxscore?id=2022021157) – [Recap](http://Islanders.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/recap?id=2022021157)|
|GameCenter|[On NHL.com](https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/2022021157)|

by HockeyMod

13 Comments

  1. UncleOrton

    Even though we’d probably have to win out to make the playoffs I’d still like to win in regulation to prevent the earth from having to watch the islanders in the playoffs

  2. xBialyOrzel

    Listen, I’m not going to say we’re going to lose, but its a back to back, 5PM, ESPN+ game against a team that clogs the neutral zone with zero forecheck. This is like hell for the Sabres.

  3. Internet-pizza

    Where all my NYC friends at? Excited for our second blacked out game in a row??

  4. Rockhardwood

    What I’d love more than a win, is a game where we play defense. I’d love to give up less than 3 goals more than once a month. It’d be cool.

  5. beeeeepppp

    An away game against a large market team on espn, I think I’m going to skip watching this one.

  6. Guys this sucks, every game that I haven’t watched they have won. Should I just stop watching for the Sabres to win the cup? It would suck but I would do it.

  7. KitchenEquipment634

    If winning today’s game would give us hope in the playoff race, we would have to consider even more carefully when to debut Levi.

  8. insaneandmundane

    I would have liked to see Comrie today. Apart from that last disaster start he was playing decent.

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