Game Thread: Montreal Canadiens (29-38-6) at Buffalo Sabres (35-31-6) – 27 Mar 2023 – 07:00PM EDT

#Montreal [](/r/habs) Canadiens (29-38-6) at Buffalo [](/r/sabres) Sabres (35-31-6)

#KeyBank Center

##Time

|PT|MT|CT|ET|AT|
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|04:00PM|05:00PM|06:00PM|07:00PM|08:00PM|#In-Game Updates

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###Projected Lineups

||Left|Center|Right||Left|Center|Right|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[](/r/sabres)|Jeff Skinner|Tage Thompson|Alex Tuch|[](/r/habs)|Rafael Harvey-Pinard|Nick Suzuki|Mike Hoffman|
|[](/r/sabres)|John Jason Peterka|Dylan Cozens|Jack Quinn|[](/r/habs)|Jonathan Drouin|Kirby Dach|Denis Gurianov|
|[](/r/sabres)|Casey Mittelstadt|Tyson Jost|Victor Olofsson|[](/r/habs)|Jesse Ylonen|Jake Evans|Brendan Gallagher|
|[](/r/sabres)|Zemgus Girgensons|Peyton Krebs|Kyle Okposo|[](/r/habs)|Michael Pezzetta|Chris Tierney|Alex Belzile|

||Left D|Right D||Left D|Right D|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[](/r/sabres)|Rasmus Dahlin|Henri Jokiharju|[](/r/habs)|Michael Matheson|David Savard|
|[](/r/sabres)|Owen Power|Ilya Lyubushkin|[](/r/habs)|Joel Edmundson|Justin Barron|
|[](/r/sabres)|Riley Stillman|Jacob Bryson|[](/r/habs)|Jordan Harris|Johnathan Kovacevic|

||Goalies||Goalies|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[](/r/sabres)|Eric Comrie|[](/r/habs)|Jake Allen|
|[](/r/sabres)|Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen|[](/r/habs)|Samuel Montembeault|

###Injuries

||Player|Date|Injury|Status|Details|Return|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Vinnie Hinostroza|23 Mar 2023|Personal|DTD|Hinostroza will sit out his second straight game Saturday due to personal reasons, Lance Lysowski of The Buffalo News reports.|unknown|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Jordan Greenway|20 Mar 2023|Upper Body|DTD|Greenway (upper body) will be out of the lineup Saturday versus the New York Islanders, Lance Lysowski of The Buffalo News reports.|unknown|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Mattias Samuelsson|12 Mar 2023|Upper Body|DTD|Samuelsson is week-to-week with an upper-body injury, per Heather Engel of NHL.com.|unknown|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Ben Bishop||Knee|IR-LT|Surgery|01 Aug 2023|
|–|–|–|–|–|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Josh Anderson|21 Mar 2023|Ankle|OUT|Sprain|15 Sep 2023|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Kaiden Guhle|18 Mar 2023|Ankle|OUT|Sprain|15 Sep 2023|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Christian Dvorak|09 Mar 2023|Knee|OUT|Dvorak underwent knee surgery Wednesday and will miss the remainder of the season.|01 Jul 2023|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Joel Armia|21 Feb 2023|Illness|OUT|Armia (illness) isn’t expected to play Thursday versus Florida.|30 Mar 2023|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Juraj Slafkovský||Lower Body|IR||18 Apr 2023|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Arber Xhekaj|18 Feb 2023|Shoulder|IR|Surgery|15 Sep 2023|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Cole Caufield||Shoulder|IR||15 Sep 2023|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Sean Monahan|25 Feb 2023|Lower Body|IR-LT|Monahan (lower body) will not travel with the Montreal Canadiens on their upcoming road trip, Eric Engels of Sportsnet.ca reports.|unknown|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Paul Byron||Hip|IR-LT|Not Specified|06 Apr 2023|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Carey Price||Knee|IR-LT||01 Jul 2023|

###Team Stats

|Team|GP|W|L|OT|P|P%|G/G|GA/G|PP%|PK%|S/G|SA/G|FO%|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[Sabres](/r/sabres)|72|35|31|6|76|52.7|3.56944|3.68055|24.2|72.4|32.15277|32.91666|45.0|
|[Canadiens](/r/habs)|73|29|38|6|64|43.8|2.83561|3.67123|17.2|73.1|27.43835|33.75342|48.6|

##Watch, Listen and Talk:

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|TV|MSG-B|
|Listen|[MTL](https://www.nhl.com/video/c-00099918) – [BUF](https://www.nhl.com/video/c-00099917)|
|Other-Away|[Preview](http://Canadiens.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/preview?id=2022021171) – [Boxscore](http://Canadiens.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/boxscore?id=2022021171) – [Recap](http://Canadiens.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/recap?id=2022021171)|
|Other-Home|[Preview](http://Sabres.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/preview?id=2022021171) – [Boxscore](http://Sabres.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/boxscore?id=2022021171) – [Recap](http://Sabres.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/recap?id=2022021171)|
|GameCenter|[On NHL.com](https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/2022021171)|

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