The Buffalo Sabres have an opportunity to inch closer toward first place in the Atlantic Division when they visit the Tampa Bay Lightning at Benchmark International Arena on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The Sabres, coming off a 5-3 win in Florida on Monday, are currently in the top wild card spot with 69 points \u2013 five behind the division leading Lightning (who have two games in hand).<\/p>\n
While the Sabres have shot up the standings during their 21-4-1 stretch, gaining ground on the top spot has proven difficult. The Lightning, at 19-3-2, are the only team in the NHL with a better points percentage than the Sabres during that stretch.<\/p>\n
Four remaining head-to-head games \u2013 another in Tampa later this month, followed by two in Buffalo \u2013 present both teams with the chance to swing the division.<\/p>\n
The Sabres found themselves on the other end of the equation Monday, when they fended off a team chasing them in the standings in the two-time champion Panthers. Read about that win, driven by a three-point night from Peyton Krebs, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The game will be streamed exclusively on ESPN+ and Hulu with puck drop scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Here\u2019s what you need to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Sabres have an opportunity to inch closer toward first place in the Atlantic Division when they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-448327","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\/448327","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=448327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}