Buffalo Sabres (44-20-6, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Anaheim Ducks (38-27-4, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
Anaheim, California; Sunday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Ducks -117, Sabres -102; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Buffalo Sabres will attempt to continue a four-game win streak with a victory over the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n
Anaheim has a 38-27-4 record overall and a 22-10-2 record in home games. The Ducks serve 10.2 penalty minutes per game to rank fifth in league play.<\/p>\n
Buffalo has a 22-11-3 record on the road and a 44-20-6 record overall. The Sabres are 17-5-4 in games they score one or more power-play goals.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s game is the second meeting between these teams this season. The Sabres won the previous matchup 5-3. Jack Quinn scored two goals in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Cutter Gauthier has 36 goals and 26 assists for the Ducks. Leo Carlsson has four goals and three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Tage Thompson has 36 goals and 36 assists for the Sabres. Sam Carrick has five goals and one assist over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Ducks: 5-4-1, averaging 2.9 goals, five assists, 5.2 penalties and 14.1 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Sabres: 9-1-0, averaging 3.9 goals, 6.5 assists, 4.5 penalties and 12.2 penalty minutes while giving up two goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Ducks: Petr Mrazek: out for season (lower-body), Ross Johnston: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n
Sabres: Jiri Kulich: out for season (ear), Jordan Greenway: out (abdomen), Conor Timmins: out (leg), Justin Danforth: out (lower body), Tanner Pearson: day to day (lower-body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Buffalo Sabres (44-20-6, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Anaheim Ducks (38-27-4, in the Pacific…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-231536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231536","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=231536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}