Can The Sabres Go .500 On Their Road Trip?

Buffalo Sabres – Edmonton Oilers Game Preview

1/25/25 – 4:00 pm EST at Rogers Place, Edmonton, Alberta

Record

Buffalo – 18-25-5 | 41 points – 8th place in the Atlantic Division

Edmonton – 30-15-3 | 63 points – 2nd place in the Pacific Division

Special Teams

Buffalo

Power Play – 17.0% (27th)

Penalty Kill – 77.4% (20th)

Edmonton

Power Play – 24.8% (7th)

Penalty Kill – 75.9% (24th)

Top Scorers

Buffalo

Tage Thompson: 43 GP, 22 G, 18 A, 40 PTS

Jason Zucker: 46 GP, 16 G, 19 A, 35 PTS

JJ Peterka: 46 GP, 11 G, 24 A, 35 PTS

Edmonton

Leon Draisaitl: 48 GP, 35 G, 39 A, 74 PTS

Connor McDavid: 43 GP, 20 G, 45 A, 65 PTS

Evan Bouchard: 48 GP, 8 G, 28 A, 36 PTS

Starting Goalies

Buffalo – James Reimer (1-5-1, 3.05 GAA, .891 save %)

Edmonton – Stuart Skinner (18-11-3, 2.71 GAA, .899 save %)

Line Combinations and Pairings

Buffalo

Forwards

Jiri Kulich – Ryan McLeod - Tage Thompson

JJ Peterka - Dylan Cozens - Alex Tuch

Zach Benson - Peyton Krebs - Jack Quinn

Beck Malenstyn – Tyson Kozak - Sam Lafferty

Defense

Rasmus Dahlin - Bowen Byram

Owen Power - Henri Jokiharju

Mattias Samuelsson - Connor Clifton

Ex.: Jacob Bryson, Dennis Gilbert

Goaltenders

James Reimer

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen

Injuries

Jason Zucker (day-to-day – illness)

Jordan Greenway (IR - middle body)

Notes

Rasmus Dahlin has recorded 15 assists in his last 14 games, including three assists in his last three games. • Dahlin has posted 17 points (3+14) in his last 15 road games, including at least one points in five of his last six. Dahlin is two assists away from tying Mike Ramsey for the second-most assists (256) by a Sabres defenseman all-time. Dahlin is also one goal away from tying Ramsey for the second-most goals by a defenseman in franchise history (73).

Tage Thompson has posted 15 points (6+9) in his last 14 games and he is riding a five-game point streak (3+3). A point in tonight’s game would give Thompson his second-longest point streak of the season (Oct. 12 to Nov. 1; eight games; 6+6). Thompson is riding a three-game goal streak and he would match his longest goal streak of his career with a goal in today’s game (Nov. 5 to 11, 2024; Dec. 13 to 19, 2022). Thompson has recorded one point in each of his last four games against the Oilers (2+2) and a point in tonight’s game would give him a five-game point streak against Edmonton.

Mattias Samuelsson has registered three points (1+2) in his last three games. A point in today’s game would mark the most points Samuelsson has recorded in any four-game span in his career.

JJ Peterka has tallied at least one point in back-to-back games (1+2) and a point today would give him his fifth point streak of three or more games this season. Peterka has recorded three goals in four career games against the Oilers.

In his last 13 games, Jason Zucker has recorded 14 points (8+6). Zucker has notched at least one point in seven of his last eight road games and he has recorded 12 points (8+4) in that span

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