Inside The Rink Game Day Preview
Florida Panthers (1-1-0) at Buffalo Sabres (0-3-0)
Date: Saturday, October 12
KeyBank Center – Buffalo, New York
Time: 7:00 pm EST
TV: ESPN+
DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:
Florida -1.5 ML -118
Buffalo +1.5 ML -102
O/U 5.5
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Florida Panthers Notes:
The Panthers fell to Ottawa on Thursday and are now with Aleksander Barkov and Matthew Tkachuk. Barkov injured himself crashing into the boards Thursday and Tkachuk has an illness. Anton Lundell moves to the first-line center.
Buffalo Sabres Notes:
The Sabres are winless and need a victory desperately at home. Buffalo dominated the Los Angeles Kings in the home opener for two periods before the Kings pulled away with a 3-1 win.
Florida Panthers Lineup:
Luostarinen-Lundell-Reinhart
Verhaeghe-Bennett-Rodrigues
Greer-J. Boqvist-Samoskevich
Gadjovich-Giles-Schmidt
Forsling-Ekblad
Mikkola-Kulikov
Balinskis-A. Boqvist
Bobrovsky
Driedger
Buffalo Sabres Lineup:
Benson-Thompson-Tuch
Kulich-Cozens-Quinn
Greenway-McLeod-Zucker
Malenstyn-Krebs-Lafferty
Dahlin-Jokiharju
Byram-Power
Samuelsson-Clifton
Levi
Luukkonen
Players To Watch:
Florida – Sam Bennett has three points in two games. The Panthers will dress 11 forwards and seven defensemen. Nate Schmidt is the extra blueliner for Florida.
Buffalo – Alex Tuch and Tage Thompson are each a minus-3 to start the season for Buffalo and need to produce if the Sabres are to stay in the playoff race.
Injuries:
Florida – Tomas Nosek (Undisclosed), Matthew Tkachuk (Illness), Aleksander Barkov (Lower Body)
Buffalo – Nicolas Aube-Kubel (Lower Body), Peterka (Concussion)
Next game
Florida – October 14 at Boston at 1:00 pm EST.
Buffalo – October 16 at Pittsburgh at 7:00 pm EST.
