{"id":574820,"date":"2026-04-09T23:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/574820\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T23:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:30:08","slug":"sabres-g-lyon-may-miss-start-of-playoffs-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/574820\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres G Lyon may miss start of playoffs with lower body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Sabres<\/a> goalie Alex Lyon<\/a> could miss the start of the playoffs due to a strained lower-body muscle.<\/p>\n

Coach Lindy Ruff provided the update on Thursday, a day after Lyon was hurt during the team’s pre-game skate ahead of Buffalo’s 5-3 win at the New York Rangers<\/a>. Ruff said the initial prognosis is the goalie missing a week, while adding there is a chance he won’t be available for the start of the playoffs, which are scheduled to open April 18-19.<\/p>\n

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The Sabres, who host Columbus<\/a> on Thursday night, are contending for the Atlantic Division title after clinching their first playoff berth in 15 seasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old Lyon has gone 20-10-4 in his first season in Buffalo while sharing the starting duties with Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen<\/a>. Buffalo is carrying a third goalie, Colten Ellis<\/a>, who was scheduled to face Columbus in his first start since a 31-save outing in a 4-3 overtime loss at Tampa Bay on Feb. 3.<\/p>\n

Ellis entered the day with a 7-4-1 record, and would serve as Luukkonen’s backup while Lyon is sidelined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Sabres goalie Alex Lyon could miss the start of the playoffs due to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-574820","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\/574820","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=574820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}