Homecoming for Dunne<\/p>\n
If he\u2019s in the lineup, St. Louis-area native Josh Dunne will play his first NHL ~home~ game Monday.<\/p>\n
The forward has slotted into the fourth-line center role the last three games, and he\u2019s looked the part. Dunne has used his 6-foot-4 frame to his advantage, holding onto pucks below the goal line and adding some physicality to the lineup.<\/p>\n
Dunne has been especially impactful the last two games alongside Greenway and Beck Malenstyn; with that big trio on the ice at 5-on-5, Buffalo has led 18-11 in shot attempts, 13-3 in shots on goal and 1-0 in goals. Dunne and Greenway both assisted on that goal, Bowen Byram\u2019s first in the win at Ottawa.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been all around it,\u201d Ruff said of Dunne, whose only career goal so far came Oct. 28. \u201cHe\u2019s had one or two good opportunities a game \u2013 and that\u2019s with more of a limited ice time. But they\u2019re around it, and I think he will get on the board again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Homecoming for Dunne If he\u2019s in the lineup, St. Louis-area native Josh Dunne will play his first NHL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-376078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376078","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=376078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}