{"id":216973,"date":"2025-10-11T14:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/216973\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T14:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:58:06","slug":"sabres-at-bruins-how-to-watch-lineup-notes-and-storylines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/216973\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres at Bruins | How to watch, lineup notes, and storylines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Sabres hit the road for their second game of the 2025-26 regular season, a Saturday night showdown with the Boston Bruins at TD Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/sabres\/news\/buffalo-sabres-new-york-rangers-recap-highlights-josh-norris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thursday\u2019s 4-0 loss<\/a> in the opener versus New York, Buffalo looks to build upon the positives from that first game \u2013 the defense and penalty killing, primarily \u2013 and get rolling offensively.<\/p>\n<p>While the scorers find their footing and several key players deal with injuries, the Sabres will lean heavily on goaltender Alex Lyon. In his team debut, he made 29 saves and kept Buffalo within a goal for 55 minutes, but he was disappointed about allowing two late ones that put the game out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never know which save is going to be really important, and that\u2019s the mentality that I strive for: just continue to be dialed for the whole game,\u201d Lyon said.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old, Buffalo\u2019s starter while Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen recovers from a lower-body injury, is embracing one of the biggest opportunities yet in his nine-season NHL career. And Thursday\u2019s performance inspired confidence that he can help lead an early-season run for the Sabres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he gave us a chance to win a hockey game,\u201d coach Lindy Ruff said. \u201cHe was sharp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor sure, (some) things to take away,\u201d Lyon said of his and the team\u2019s performance. \u201cBut you play the game to win, as well, so we\u2019ve got to try to get a win on Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s everything you need to know ahead of the divisional showdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Sabres hit the road for their second game of the 2025-26 regular season, a Saturday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-216973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}