Game Thread: Buffalo Sabres (24-19-3) at St Louis Blues (23-21-3) – 24 Jan 2023 – 08:00PM EST

#Buffalo [](/r/sabres) Sabres (24-19-3) at St Louis [](/r/stlouisblues) Blues (23-21-3)

#Enterprise Center

##Time

|PT|MT|CT|ET|AT|
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|05:00PM|06:00PM|07:00PM|08:00PM|09:00PM|#In-Game Updates

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###Projected Lineups

||Left|Center|Right||Left|Center|Right|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[](/r/stlouisblues)|Brandon Saad|Robert Thomas|Jordan Kyrou|[](/r/sabres)|Jeff Skinner|Tage Thompson|Alex Tuch|
|[](/r/stlouisblues)|Ivan Barbashev|Brayden Schenn|Vladimir Tarasenko|[](/r/sabres)|John Jason Peterka|Dylan Cozens|Jack Quinn|
|[](/r/stlouisblues)|Jake Neighbours|Noel Acciari|Logan Brown|[](/r/sabres)|Casey Mittelstadt|Tyson Jost|Victor Olofsson|
|[](/r/stlouisblues)|Alexei Toropchenko|Nathan Walker|Tyler Pitlick|[](/r/sabres)|Zemgus Girgensons|Peyton Krebs|Kyle Okposo|

||Left D|Right D||Left D|Right D|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[](/r/stlouisblues)|Nick Leddy|Colton Parayko|[](/r/sabres)|Mattias Samuelsson|Rasmus Dahlin|
|[](/r/stlouisblues)|Niko Mikkola|Justin Faulk|[](/r/sabres)|Owen Power|Henri Jokiharju|
|[](/r/stlouisblues)|Torey Krug|Tyler Tucker|[](/r/sabres)|Jacob Bryson|Ilya Lyubushkin|

||Goalies||Goalies|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[](/r/stlouisblues)|Jordan Binnington|[](/r/sabres)|Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen|
|[](/r/stlouisblues)|Thomas Greiss|[](/r/sabres)|Craig Anderson|

###Injuries

||Player|Date|Injury|Status|Details|Return|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[STL](/r/stlouisblues)|Pavel Buchnevich|23 Jan 2023|Lower Body|DTD|Buchnevich sat out Monday’s practice with a lingering lower-body injury, Lou Korac of NHL.com reports.|unknown|
|[STL](/r/stlouisblues)|Robert Bortuzzo|07 Jan 2023|Lower Body|IR|Bortuzzo (lower body) was placed on injured reserve Monday.|unknown|
|[STL](/r/stlouisblues)|Ryan O’Reilly|02 Jan 2023|Foot|IR|Fracture|14 Feb 2023|
|[STL](/r/stlouisblues)|Vladimir Tarasenko|31 Dec 2022|Hand|IR|Although Tarasenko (hand) won’t play Thursday versus Nashville, coach Craig Berube believes the 31-year-old winger is “close to telling him” when he’ll be ready to return, Lou Korac of NHL.com reports.|unknown|
|[STL](/r/stlouisblues)|Torey Krug|27 Dec 2022|Lower Body|IR-LT|Krug (lower body) is getting close to returning, Blues coach Craig Berube told Jim Thomas of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.|28 Jan 2023|
|[STL](/r/stlouisblues)|Scott Perunovich|06 Dec 2022|Shoulder|IR-LT|Surgery|06 Apr 2023|
|[STL](/r/stlouisblues)|Marco Scandella|06 Dec 2022|Hip|IR-LT|Scandella (hip) has begun skating, Jeremy Rutherford of The Athletic reports.|21 Mar 2023|
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|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Olivier Nadeau||Shoulder|IR-NR|Surgery|28 Jan 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%|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[Blues](/r/stlouisblues)|47|23|21|3|49|52.1|3.10638|3.53191|22.9|74.5|28.76595|31.95744|50.4|
|[Sabres](/r/sabres)|46|24|19|3|51|55.4|3.7826|3.41304|26.0|73.3|32.52173|32.91304|45.0|

##Watch, Listen and Talk:

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|TV|BSMW, MSG-B|
|Listen|[BUF](https://www.nhl.com/video/c-00099917) – [STL](https://www.nhl.com/video/c-000999119)|
|Other-Away|[Preview](http://Sabres.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/preview?id=2022020761) – [Boxscore](http://Sabres.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/boxscore?id=2022020761) – [Recap](http://Sabres.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/recap?id=2022020761)|
|Other-Home|[Preview](http://Blues.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/preview?id=2022020761) – [Boxscore](http://Blues.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/boxscore?id=2022020761) – [Recap](http://Blues.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/recap?id=2022020761)|
|GameCenter|[On NHL.com](https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/2022020761)|

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