Sabres Hoping To Get Over .500 With Win Over Montreal

11/11/24 at 12:30 pm at Key Bank Center in Buffalo, NY

Record

Buffalo – 7-7-1 | 13 points – 5th place in the Atlantic Division

Montreal – 4-9-2 | 16 points – 8th place in the Atlantic Division

Special Teams

Buffalo

Power Play – 15.6% (26th)

Penalty Kill – 77.6% (18th)

Montreal

Power Play – 22.0% (11th)

Penalty Kill - 80.8% (15th)

Related: Sabres Recent Win Streak Has Delayed Need For Immediate Help

Top Scorers

Buffalo

Tage Thompson: 15 GP, 10 G, 7 A, 17 PTS

JJ Peterka: 13 GP, 6 G, 7 A, 13 PTS

Alex Tuch: 15 GP, 4 G, 8 A, 12 PTS

Montreal

Nick Suzuki: 15 GP, 4 G, 9 A, 13 PTS

Cole Caufield: 15 GP, 10 G, 1 A, 11 PTS

Mike Matheson: 15 GP, 0 G, 9 A, 9 PTS

Starting Goalies

Buffalo – Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (6-4-1, 2.64 GAA, .910 save %)

Montreal – Cayden Primeau (1-2-1, 4.38 GAA, .861 save %)

Line Combinations and Pairings

Forwards

JJ Peterka - Tage Thompson - Alex Tuch

Zach Benson - Dylan Cozens - Jack Quinn

Jason Zucker - Ryan McLeod - Jordan Greenway

Beck Malenstyn - Peyton Krebs - Sam Lafferty

Ex. Nicolas Aube-Kubel

Defense

Rasmus Dahlin-Bowen Byram

Owen Power-Jacob Bryson

Mattias Samuelsson - Connor Clifton

Ex. Dennis Gilbert, Henri Jokiharju

Goaltenders

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen

Devon Levi

Notes

The Sabres have earned a win in three consecutive games and a win today would extend the team’s streak to four games. The Sabres have earned at least one point in five of their last six games against the Canadiens (3-1-2), including at least one point in each of the last three contests between the two teams (2-0-1).

Rasmus Dahlin has notched nine points (2+7) in his last seven games, including at least one point in three straight games (1+3).

Tage Thompson is riding a seven-game home point streak and he has registered 11 points (6+5) in that span. If he records a point in today’s game, Thompson would become the first Sabres skater to register a home point streak of eight or more games since Dahlin from Jan. 17 to March 4, 2022 (eight games; 2+10).

In his last five home games, Jason Zucker has posted six points (3+3).

JJ Peterka has registered at least one point in three consecutive games and he has tallied five points in that span (2+3).

Zach Benson has recorded at least one point in back-to-back games, including at least one goal in both of those contests. In his last four games,

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen has made 107 saves on 113 shots (.947)

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