Pittsburgh Penguins (28-15-12, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Buffalo Sabres (32-18-6, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Buffalo, New York; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Buffalo Sabres host the Pittsburgh Penguins after Mattias Samuelsson scored two goals in the Sabres’ 4-3 overtime loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n
Buffalo has gone 17-7-3 at home and 32-18-6 overall. The Sabres have scored 190 total goals (3.4 per game) to rank fifth in the league.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh has gone 15-7-5 in road games and 28-15-12 overall. The Penguins have a +26 scoring differential, with 186 total goals scored and 160 conceded.<\/p>\n
The matchup Thursday is the second time these teams meet this season. The Penguins won 4-2 in the previous meeting.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Rasmus Dahlin has 11 goals and 36 assists for the Sabres. Alex Tuch has six goals and three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Evgeni Malkin has 14 goals and 29 assists for the Penguins. Sidney Crosby has three goals and seven assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Sabres: 6-2-2, averaging four goals, 6.5 assists, 3.7 penalties and 9.3 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Penguins: 7-1-2, averaging 4.6 goals, 7.6 assists, 3.1 penalties and 6.5 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Sabres: None listed.<\/p>\n
Penguins: 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":"Pittsburgh Penguins (28-15-12, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Buffalo Sabres (32-18-6, in the Atlantic Division) Buffalo, New York;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[50502,1165,1484,73,75,74,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-104782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-50502","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nhl-hockey","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","13":"tag-pittsburgh-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}