NHL Game Preview: Florida Panthers at Buffalo Sabres 10/12/2024

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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.

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