Anaheim Ducks (21-20-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Buffalo Sabres (23-15-4, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Buffalo, New York; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Anaheim Ducks aim to end an eight-game slide with a win over the Buffalo Sabres.<\/p>\n
Buffalo has gone 13-5-2 at home and 23-15-4 overall. The Sabres have a 21-3-3 record in games they score at least three goals.<\/p>\n
Anaheim has a 21-20-3 record overall and a 9-12-2 record in road games. The Ducks have scored 143 total goals (3.2 per game) to rank seventh in NHL play.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game is the first time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Alex Tuch has 13 goals and 21 assists for the Sabres. Jason Zucker has five goals and five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Troy Terry has 13 goals and 29 assists for the Ducks. Mikael Granlund has scored four goals with three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Sabres: 9-1-0, averaging 3.6 goals, 5.9 assists, 2.3 penalties and five penalty minutes while giving up 2.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Ducks: 1-8-1, averaging 2.6 goals, 4.1 assists, 4.5 penalties and 13.7 penalty minutes while giving up 4.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Sabres: None listed.<\/p>\n
Ducks: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks (21-20-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Buffalo Sabres (23-15-4, in the Atlantic Division) Buffalo, New York;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[65635,163,165,164,847,1489,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-126679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-65635","9":"tag-anaheim","10":"tag-anaheim-headlines","11":"tag-anaheim-news","12":"tag-article","13":"tag-nhl-hockey","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}