{"id":581823,"date":"2026-04-04T14:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/581823\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T14:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:10:13","slug":"absent-carrick-sabres-weigh-4th-line-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/581823\/","title":{"rendered":"Absent Carrick, Sabres weigh 4th-line options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Greenway has returned from his middle-body injury to play the last two games. Defense is his calling, but the 6-foot-6, 231-pound winger can also be a handful in the offensive zone when he\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaying with [Malenstyn] and Greenway, they do such a good job protecting pucks that they\u2019re good players to have a lot of O-zone time, because when they get the puck, it\u2019s hard to take it from them,\u201d said Josh Dunne, who centered those guys <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/sabres\/news\/buffalo-sabres-ottawa-senators-recap-playoff-clinch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thursday in Ottawa<\/a>, his first game in a month.<\/p>\n<p>Dunne won four of seven draws and is 53.4 percent this season. Like his wingers against the Senators, he can hold onto the puck below the goal line, box out defenders with his 6-foot-4 frame and wear down opponents.<\/p>\n<p>But Friday\u2019s practice at Medstar Capitals Iceplex saw another guy, Tyson Kozak, between Malenstyn and Greenway. A smaller, speedier option, Kozak always brings the energy when back in the lineup, and he ranks fourth on the team in hits (103) despite playing in just 41 games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe definitely gives us the speed option,\u201d Ruff said of Kozak. \u201cI thought Dunner, for stepping in after a long time out, gave us a good effort \u2013 we always get a good effort out of him. \u2026 Overall, we know what the different guys can bring us when we put the different pieces in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Greenway has returned from his middle-body injury to play the last two games. Defense is his calling,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-581823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581823","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=581823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}