BUFFALO SABRES NOTES:

LAST GAME
Friday, March 24
New Jersey 4 at Buffalo 5
Goals: Tuch (2), Cozens, Thompson, Quinn
Goalies: Luukkonen (27 saves/31 shots)
PP: 1/4; PK: 2/3; Shots: New Jersey 31 – Buffalo 26

CURRENT INJURIES – (Man Games Lost: 133)
Player (injury, first game missed) – total games missed
Mattias Samuelsson (upper body, March 13) – 6 games
Jordan Greenway (upper body, March 21) – 2 games

TRANSACTIONS IN PAST SEVEN DAYS
N/A

UPCOMING GAMES
Monday, March 27: Montreal at Buffalo, 7:00 p.m.
Friday, March 31: NY Rangers at Buffalo, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 1: Buffalo at Philadelphia, 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 4: Buffalo at Florida, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 6: Buffalo at Detroit Red Wings, 7:00 p.m.

TODAY’S GAME
SABRES AT ISLANDERS
• This is the third and final meeting between the Sabres and Islanders this season.
• Last meeting: New York defeated Buffalo 3-2 in New York on March 7.
• The Sabres are 5-5-0 in their last 10 games against the New York; 0-8-2 on the road.
• This is the 187th game all-time between Buffalo and New York; Buffalo has an 87-74-25 series record.
• The Sabres are 17-17-8 on the road against the Islanders all-time.

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
• With a win tonight, Buffalo would earn its 35th win of 2022-23, which would be highest win total since they earned 35 wins in 2015-16.

• Alex Tuch has recorded 13 points (8+5) in his last 11 games dating back to Feb. 15 at Anaheim.

• Tage Thompson has recorded 39 points (18+21) in his last 38 games, including 20 points (9+11) in his last 19 games.

• With one point in tonight’s game, Thompson would become the 10th skater in Sabres history to record 90 or more points in a single season. Daniel Briere’s 95 points (32+63) in 2006-07 is the last instance of a Buffalo skater reaching 90 points.

• Jeff Skinner has notched 19 points (10+9) in his last 19 games.

• JJ Peterka has notched six points (1+5) in his last five games, and he would earn his fourth point streak of three or more games in 2022-23.

• With a point in tonight’s game, Dylan Cozens will have recorded at least one point in three consecutive games.

• Rasmus Dahlin has notched one assist in two consecutive games and an assist in tonight’s game would give him eight assist streaks of three or more games this season and 20 in his career.

• Victor Olofsson needs one assist in tonight’s game to earn the second three-game assist streak of his career, and the first since he tallied four assists in three games from Dec. 2 to 7, 2019.

• In his last two games, Jack Quinn has earned three points (1+2).

• If Quinn records a point in tonight’s game, it would mark his third point streak of three or more games this season.

BACK-TO-BACK
• Today’s game concludes Buffalo’s 12th of 15 sets of back-to-back games this season, which began with a home win against the New Jersey Devils last night. The Sabres are 6-5-1 in the first game of back-to-back sets and 3-7-1 in the second game so far this season. Buffalo’s point breakdown in back-to-back sets this season is: four points (3), three points (0), two points (2), one point (2) and zero points (4).

NEW YORK ISLANDERS NOTES:

LAST GAME
DATE NYI RESULT SCORE NYI SCORERS IN GOAL
Friday, March 24 OT Loss CBJ 5 vs. NYI 4 Parise, Palmieri,
Nelson (2)
Sorokin (22/27)
Brock Nelson and Kyle Palmieri each scored in the third frame to overcome a two-goal deficit, but the New York Islanders
fell to the Columbus Blue Jackets in overtime, 5-4, Friday night at Nationwide Arena. Bo Horvat and Noah Dobson each
recorded assists on the power play, Zach Parise extended his goal streak to four games, and Ilya Sorokin made his fifth
straight start, turning aside 22 of 27 shots faced to help the Islanders captured points for the fourth straight game (3-0-1).

RECENT TRANSACTIONS & UPDATES
Mar. 20 Otto Koivula has been returned on loan to Bridgeport. Samuel Bolduc has been recalled from loan.

INJURIES GAMES MISSED

3 Adam Pelech Dec. 9 – Jan. 21

8 Noah Dobson Jan. 23 – Jan. 28

10 Simon Holmstrom Dec. 23 – Jan. 6

12 Josh Bailey Nov. 29, Feb. 18 – Feb. 24

13 Mathew Barzal Jan. 6, Feb. 20 –

15 Cal Clutterbuck Oct. 13, Nov. 8, Dec. 2- Dec. 6, Dec. 17 – Jan. 3, Jan. 21 – Mar. 9

20 Hudson Fasching Jan. 19 – Jan. 28

21 Kyle Palmieri Nov. 23 – Dec. 13, Dec. 17 – Jan. 21

25 Sebastian Aho Oct. 13 – Oct. 20, Mar. 21 –

26 Oliver Wahlstrom Oct. 13, Dec. 29 –

36 Otto Koivula Mar. 11 – Mar. 15

40 Semyon Varlamov Dec. 19 – Jan. 1

44 Jean-Gabriel Pageau Feb. 14 – Mar. 11

Man Games Lost: 185

RECENT RESULTS
Friday, Mar. 24 at Columbus L/ OT (5-4)
Tuesday, Mar. 21 vs. Toronto W (7-2)
Saturday, Mar. 18 at San Jose W (4-1)
Wednesday, Mar. 15 at Anaheim W (6-3)
Tuesday, Mar. 14 at Los Angeles L (5-2)
Saturday, Mar. 11 vs. Washington L (5-1)

VS. BUFFALO:
Last five meetings (2-2-1)
Mar. 7, 2023 UBS Arena W (3-2)
Jan. 19, 2023 KeyBank Center L/OT (3-2)
Apr. 23, 2022 KeyBank Center L (5-3)
Feb. 15, 2022 KeyBank Center L (6-3)
Dec. 30, 2021 UBS Arena W (4-1)

2022-23 1-0-1
Franchise History 81-76-18-11
NYI Home 47-32-9-4
NYI Away 34-44-9-7

TEAM NOTES
TONIGHT’S MATCHUP
Tonight, the New York Islanders host the Buffalo Sabres in the third and final matchup between the two clubs this season. These teams last met less than three weeks ago, on March 7 at UBS Arena. Four different Islanders tallied multi-point games, including Hudson Fasching who recorded a goal and assist, and Alexander Romanov who notched two assists in a 3-2 Islander win. The Islanders enter tonight’s matchup with an 11-game home win streak against the Sabres. It is the second-longest active home winning streak in the NHL against a single franchise, following Pittsburgh’s 13-game home win streak against the Columbus Blue Jackets. They have also won each of their last three matchups with an Atlantic Division opponent. The Islanders enter tonight’s matchup having collected points in their last four straight games. They collected a point in an overtime loss last night against the Columbus Blue Jackets after overcoming a two-goal deficit at the start of the third period.

DIVISION RECORDS
DIVISION RECORD NEXT OPPONENT LAST OPPONENT
Metropolitan 13-6-2 Mar. 27 vs. NJD Mar. 24 at CBJ (L/OT)
Atlantic 8-8-4 Mar. 25 vs. BUF Mar. 21 vs. TOR (W)
Pacific 10-6-0 none Mar. 18 at SJS (W)
Central 6-7-3 none Feb. 28 at MIN (L/SO)