with Premier Sports continuing to carry the Fastenal-backed European Game of the Week slot on Sundays<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe announcement comes amid changes to NHL coverage in the UK this season.<\/p>\n
The league\u2019s official streaming service, NHL TV, moved to DAZN ahead of the current campaign, requiring fans to access games through an additional platform.<\/p>\n
Preview: Watch Buffalo Sabres versus Minnesota Wild for free on ITV4<\/p>\n
The Sabres have won eight of their last ten games and enter Saturday\u2019s showdown as one of the NHL\u2019s hottest squads.<\/p>\n
Buffalo, 26-16-4 on the season, are fourth in the Atlantic Division and currently hold the Eastern Conference\u2019s first wildcard playoff berth.<\/p>\n
Tage Thompson\u2019s recent production has been a key factor in the Sabres\u2019 upward mobility.<\/p>\n
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Tage Thompson, Buffalo Sabres (Image: NHL)<\/p>\n
The American has 11 points (three goals, eight assists) in his last five games, including a hattrick in a 5-3 win over the Montreal Canadiens, another playoff-chasing squad.<\/p>\n
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen is Buffalo\u2019s projected starter against the Wild.<\/p>\n
The Finn is 10-6-1 on the season, with a .901 save percentage.<\/p>\n
Minnesota arrive in upstate New York hoping to snap a three-game losing streak.<\/p>\n
The Wild, 26-13-9 on the season, are 4-3-3 over their last ten games and have lost crucial ground to the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche at the top of the Central Division.<\/p>\n
Even so, Bill Guerin\u2019s squad are nine points clear of the Utah Mammoth and firmly on course to look in a divisional ticket to the postseason.<\/p>\n
Quinn Hughes is Minnesota\u2019s player to watch.<\/p>\n
The American Olympian-to-be has 16 points (one goal, 15 assists) in 16 games since the Vancouver Canucks dealt him to the Wild in one of the most consequential trades in recent history.<\/p>\n
According to the sports betting<\/a> odds, the Sabres are 3\/4 favourites for this evening\u2019s clash.\u00a0<\/p>\nREAD MORE:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ITV4 will broadcast select NHL games free-to-air, expanding access to the world\u2019s top ice hockey league for viewers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,952,575,85],"class_list":["post-419341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-featured","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}