Buffalo Sabres at Chicago Blackhawks 8:30PM Eastern/7:30 Central CSN Chicago/MSG
THE BUZZ
The Blackhawks come into action tonight riding a 5-game winning streak, including arguably their best overall game of the season Wednesday night versus Pittsburgh. Buffalo has lost their last 5 games. No official word yet on Richard Panik’s status tonight. I heard the other day that his US work visa has been approved, but he had not received the paperwork as of that time.
THE NUMBERS
GFG/GAG Buffalo 2.28/2.68 Chicago 2.76/2.38
Power Play Buffalo 20.1% (8th) Chicago 22.6% (3rd)
Penalty Kill Buffalo 77.1% (27th) Chicago 81.3% (11th)
PROJECTED LINEUPS
Buffalo
Kane O’Reilly Reinhart Girgensons Eichel McGinn Foligno Larsson Gionta Moulson Schaller Legwand
Gorges Ristolainen McCabe Bogosian Colaiacovo Franson
Ullmark
Chicago
Shaw Toews Hossa Panarin Anisimov kane Desjardins Danault Teravainen Bickell Rasmussen Garbutt
Keith Hjalmarsson Gustafsson Seabrook Van Riemsdyk Rozsival
Crawford
I’ll have a recap tomorrow,
JJ