{"id":187750,"date":"2025-10-03T16:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187750\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T16:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:46:15","slug":"sabres-luukkonen-kesselring-week-to-week-sportsnet-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187750\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres&#8217; Luukkonen, Kesselring week-to-week &#8211; Sportsnet.ca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/buffalo-sabres\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"buffalo-sabres\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> will begin their quest to end the NHL&#8217;s longest playoff drought without their top goalie.<\/p>\n<p>Luukkonen exited Wednesday&#8217;s pre-season game against Pittsburgh with the injury on Wednesday. Ruff told reporters it is a different injury than the one that kept Luukkonen out of the start of training camp.<\/p>\n<p>After a breakout year in 2023-24, Luukkonen&#8217;s number took a hit last season as he finished with an .887 save percentage and 3.20 goals-against average.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres&#8217; other goaltenders on the active roster are newcomers Alexandar Georgiev and Alex Lyon.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres also said defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/michael-kesselring\/ff0eb4bf-f189-405a-b295-7bf67b979ff3\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"ff0eb4bf-f189-405a-b295-7bf67b979ff3\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Michael Kesselring<\/a> is week-to-week with an undisclosed injury. Buffalo acquired Kesselring from Utah in the J.J. Peterka deal in June.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres&#8217; season opener is next Thursday against the visiting New York Rangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Sabres will begin their quest to end the NHL&#8217;s longest playoff drought without their top goalie.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-187750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}