Game Thread: New York Islanders (2-0-1) at Buffalo Sabres (1-3-0) – 21 Oct 2023 – 7:00PM EDT

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# New York [](/r/newyorkislanders) Islanders (2-0-1) at Buffalo [](/r/sabres) Sabres (1-3-0)

#KeyBank Center

##In-Game Updates

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##Time

|PT|MT|CT|ET|AT|UTC|
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|4:00PM|5:00PM|6:00PM|7:00PM|8:00PM|11:00PM|##Game Info:

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|TV|MSG-B, MSGSN|
|Other|[Preview](https://www.nhl.com/news/game-preview-islanders-at-sabres) – [Boxscore](https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/2023020067/boxscore) – [Recap](https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/2023020067/recap)|
|GameCenter|[On NHL.com](https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/2023020067/playbyplay)|

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##Projected Lineups

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

||Left D|Right D||Left D|Right D|
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|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Rasmus Dahlin|Mattias Samuelsson|[NYI](/r/newyorkislanders)|Adam Pelech|Noah Dobson|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Owen Power|Henri Jokiharju|[NYI](/r/newyorkislanders)|Alexander Romanov|Ryan Pulock|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Connor Clifton|Erik Johnson|[NYI](/r/newyorkislanders)|Samuel Bolduc|Sebastian Aho|

||Goalies||Goalies|
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|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Devon Levi|[NYI](/r/newyorkislanders)|Ilya Sorokin|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Eric Comrie|[NYI](/r/newyorkislanders)|Semyon Varlamov|

[Source](https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/teams/buffalo-sabres/line-combinations/), [Source](https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/teams/new-york-islanders/line-combinations/)

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##Injuries

||Player|Date|Injury|Status|Details|Return|
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|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Devon Levi|20 Oct 2023|Lower Body|DTD|Levi (lower body) wasn’t at practice Friday.|unknown|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Zach Benson|20 Oct 2023|Lower Body|DTD|Benson is day-to-day after suffering a lower-body injury in Thursday’s 4-3 loss to Calgary.|unknown|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Matthew Savoie|19 Sep 2023|Shoulder|IR-NR|Savoie (shoulder) didn’t participate in Wednesday’s morning skate, per Lance Lysowski of The Buffalo News.|29 Oct 2023|
|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Jack Quinn|21 Sep 2023|Achilles|IR-NR|Surgery|29 Oct 2023|
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|[NYI](/r/newyorkislanders)|Scott Mayfield|16 Oct 2023|Leg|OUT|Mayfield (leg) skated at morning practice but will not play against the New Jersey Devils on Friday evening, according to Andrew Gross of Newsday.|unknown|
|[NYI](/r/newyorkislanders)|Daylan Kuefler||Undisclosed|IR-NR||24 Oct 2023|

[Source](https://puckpedia.com/team/buffalo-sabres/injuries), [Source](https://puckpedia.com/team/new-york-islanders/injuries)

##Team Stats

|Team|GP|W|L|OT|P|P%|GF/G|GA/G|PP%|PK%|SF/G|SA/G|FO%|
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|[BUF](/r/sabres)|4|1|3|0|2|0.250|2.25|3.50|7.69|93.75|27.75|30.25|41.56|
|[NYI](/r/newyorkislanders)|3|2|0|1|5|0.833|2.67|2.33|12.50|60.00|31.67|27.00|60.57|

[Source](https://api.nhle.com/stats/rest/en/team/summary?isAggregate=false&isGame=false&sort=[{“property”:”points”,”direction”:”DESC”},{“property”:”wins”,”direction”:”DESC”}]&start=0&limit=50&factCayenneExp=gamesPlayed>=0&cayenneExp=gameTypeId=2 and seasonId<=20232024 and seasonId>=20232024)

## Goalie Breakdown

||Name|GP|GS|W|L|OT|SO|GAA|SV%|
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|[BUF](/r/sabres)|Devon Levi|4|4|1|3|0|0|3.26|0.892|
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|[NYI](/r/newyorkislanders)|Ilya Sorokin|3|3|2|0|1|1|2.31|0.914|

[Source](https://api.nhle.com/stats/rest/en/goalie/summary?isAggregate=false&isGame=false&sort=[{“property”:”wins”,”direction”:”DESC”},{“property”:”savePct”,”direction”:”DESC”}]&start=0&limit=100&factCayenneExp=gamesPlayed>=1&cayenneExp=teamId=7 and gameTypeId=2 and seasonId<=20232024 and seasonId>=20232024), [Source](https://api.nhle.com/stats/rest/en/goalie/summary?isAggregate=false&isGame=false&sort=[{“property”:”wins”,”direction”:”DESC”},{“property”:”savePct”,”direction”:”DESC”}]&start=0&limit=100&factCayenneExp=gamesPlayed>=1&cayenneExp=teamId=2 and gameTypeId=2 and seasonId<=20232024 and seasonId>=20232024)

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