Sabres forward Kyle Okposo has undergone successful surgery to repair a broken bone in his cheek.
As a result, Okposo will miss the remainder of the season.
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Post-Game Report: 2/23 vs. Winnipeg
Final Score
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | OT | SO | Final | SOG | |
| Jets (32-27-5) |
1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 26 |
| Sabres (29-25-8) |
1 | 0 | 1 | – | – | 2 | 25 |
Top Notes
- Today’s win joined Buffalo’s 5-2 win at Pittsburgh yesterday afternoon to give the Sabres their first back-to-back sweep of the season.
- The Sabres are now 7-2-2 in afternoon games this season, including a 6-2-0 record at home.
- Jonas Johansson stopped 25 of 26 shots today (.962) to earn his first NHL win in his third career start.
- With two goals today, Kyle Okposo logged his 16th career multi-goal game and his first since March 31, 2018 at Nashville.
- Okposo now has points in four straight games (4+1), marking his longest point streak since he tallied points in four straight games from Nov. 10 to 17, 2017.
- Zemgus Girgensons recorded two assists today to give him three points (1+2) in two games this weekend.
- Brandon Montour posted an assist today. He now has four points (2+2) and a plus-8 rating in his last five games.
- Henri Jokiharju appeared in his 100th NHL game today.
Today’s Goaltenders
| Today’s Stats |
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| Team | Goaltender | Decision | GA | SA |
| Jets | Hellebuyck | L | 2 | 25 |
| Sabres | Johansson | W | 1 | 26 |
| Updated Season Stats | ||||
| Team | Goaltender | Record | SV% | GAA |
| Jets | Hellebuyck | 26-20-5 | .918 | 2.72 |
| Sabres | Johansson | 1-1-1 | .910 | 2.28 |
Post-Game Audio
Sabres head coach Ralph Krueger
Sabres forward Kyle Okposo
Sabres forward Zemgus Girgensons
Sabres defneseman Jake McCabe
Sabres goaltender Jonas Johansson
Jets head coach Paul Maurice
Jets forward Cody Eakin
Jets forward Blake Wheeler
Jets forward Jansen Harkins
Post-Game Report: 2/16 vs. Toronto
Final Score
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | OT | SO | Final | SOG | |
| Maple Leafs (31-21-8) |
0 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 2 | 22 |
| Sabres (27-24-8) |
0 | 2 | 3 | – | – | 5 | 36 |
Top Notes
- With tonight’s win, the Sabres improved to 21-5-2 in their last 28 home games against the Maple Leafs.
- The Sabres scored three unanswered goals in a span of 1:31 to seal tonight’s win. The last time Buffalo scored three goals in 1:31 or less was April 3, 1998 in a 5-4 win vs. Boston. Brian Holzinger, Matthew Barnaby and Vaclav Varada all scored within a span of 1:08.
- With tonight’s goal, Jack Eichel (.824 G/GP vs. Toronto) surpassed Alex Ovechkin (.820) to become the active leader in goals per game against the Maple Leafs (min. 5 GP).
- Eichel’s goal-scoring rate against the Maple Leafs currently ranks sixth among all players with at least 10 games played against Toronto in the expansion era:
- Blaine Stoughton: .94
- Mario Lemieux: .94
- Wayne Gretzky: .87
- Cam Neely: .84
- Ulf Nilsson: .83
- Jack Eichel: .82
- Kyle Okposo’s goal tonight marked the 500th point of his NHL career.
- Okposo has a goal in each of his two games against Toronto this season. He leads all Sabres with 24 career points against the Maple Leafs (8+16).
- With his 79th career point tonight, Rasmus Dahlin has tied Ray Bourque for the second-most points recorded by an NHL defenseman before his 20th birthday. He now trails only Phil Housley (132) for the most points ever recorded by a teenage defenseman.
- Dahlin now has 14 points (2+12) in his last 15 games, including at least a point in each of his last four games (1+4).
- With his goal, Johan Larsson finished the game with six goals and 15 points through 52 games this season, matching his goal total and surpassing his point total from his 73-game season in 2018-19. He is now four goals and two points from tying his career-best marks.
- Colin Miller recorded two primary assists to earn his 21st career multi-point game.
Tonight’s Goaltenders
| Tonight’s Stats |
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| Team | Goaltender | Decision | GA | SA |
| Maple Leafs | Andersen | L | 5 | 36 |
| Sabres | Hutton | W | 2 | 22 |
| Updated Season Stats | ||||
| Team | Goaltender | Record | SV% | GAA |
| Maple Leafs | Andersen | 24-11-6 | .908 | 2.93 |
| Sabres | Hutton | 11-9-4 | .897 | 3.12 |
Post-Game Audio
Sabres head coach Ralph Krueger
Sabres forward Jack Eichel
Sabres forward Jimmy Vesey
Sabres forward Kyle Okposo
Maple Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe
Maple Leafs forward Jason Spezza
Maple Leafs forward John Tavares
Maple Leafs forward Zach Hyman
Maple Leafs goaltender Frederik Andersen
Post-Game Report: 1/14 vs. Vegas
Final Score
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | OT | SO | Final | SOG | |
| Golden Knights (24-19-6) |
0 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 2 | 25 |
| Sabres (21-19-7) |
0 | 2 | 2 | – | – | 4 | 26 |
Top Notes
- The Sabres improved to 7-3-3 against the Pacific Division this season, including a 4-1-2 record against the division at KeyBank Center.
- Buffalo has now gone 6-for-14 (42.9%) on the power play in the team’s last five games.
- With his 15th win of the season, Linus Ullmark tied his career high set in 37 appearances last season. Ullmark is 4-1-0 since the beginning of January with a .923 save percentage and a 2.20 goals-against average.
- Sam Reinhart tied his career high with three points (1+2) in his 11th multi-point game of the season. It was his 10th career three-point game and his first since he scored a hat trick on Feb. 23, 2019 vs. Washington.
- Reinhart has now produced above a point-per-game pace at home this season (11+13).
- Jack Eichel recorded two points (1+1) to extend his point streak to eight games (4+6).
- He has joined John Carlson, Leon Draisaitl, Nathan MacKinnon, Mitchell Marner and David Pastrnak as the sixth player to record two streaks of at least eight games this season.
- With his first point of the night, Eichel became the first Sabres player to reach the 60-point mark in 46 games or fewer since 1992-93, when Alexander Mogilny (33 GP) and Pat LaFontaine (34 GP) both did so.
- Eichel’s second point was his 28th goal of the season. Through 46 games played, he has now tied his career-high goal total set last season in 77 games.
- With his power-play goal, Kyle Okposo now has four points (1+3) in his last three games against Vegas.
- Conor Sheary’s assist tonight gives him seven points (4+3) in his last seven games at KeyBank Center.
Tonight’s Goaltenders
| Tonight’s Stats |
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| Team | Goaltender | Decision | GA | SA |
| Golden Knights |
Fleury | L | 3 | 25 |
| Sabres | Ullmark | W | 2 | 26 |
| Updated Season Stats | ||||
| Team | Goaltender | Record | SV% | GAA |
| Golden Knights | Fleury | 18-11-3 | .906 | 2.85 |
| Sabres | Ullmark | 15-12-3 | .911 | 2.78 |
Post-Game Audio
Sabres head coach Ralph Krueger
Sabres forward Sam Reinhart
Sabres forward Kyle Okposo
Sabres forward Jack Eichel
Golden Knights head coach Gerard Gallant
Golden Knights forward Max Pacioretty
Golden Knights forward Mark Stone
Golden Knights goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury
Post-Game Report: 10/11 vs. Florida
Final Score
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | OT | SO | Final | SOG | |
| Panthers (1-2-1) |
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 43 |
| Sabres (4-0-1) |
0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 32 |
Top Notes
- With tonight’s win, the Sabres are 4-0-1 through five games. It’s the first time Buffalo has started a season with points in five straight games since the team went 4-0-1 through its first five games of the 2009-10 season.
- Buffalo has also begun the season with wins in each of the team’s first three home games for the first time since the 2008-09 season.
- The Sabres went 4-for-4 on the penalty kill tonight. They have now killed each of their last six penalties.
- Linus Ullmark, who earned the shootout win tonight, has the sixth-best career shootout save percentage (15-for-18, .833) of any NHL goaltender with at least 15 shots faced in shootouts.
- With his goal tonight, Johan Larsson now has a point in each of his last two games against the Panthers.
- Zemgus Girgensons notched two assists tonight to record the 19th two-point game of his career. He now has three assists in his last two games against Florida.
- With primary assists on both of the team’s goals tonight, Kyle Okposo registered his first two-assist game since Nov. 19 at Pittsburgh.
Tonight’s Goaltenders
| Tonight’s Stats |
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| Team | Goaltender | Decision | SV% | GAA |
| Panthers | Bobrovsky | OTL | .938 | 1.90 |
| Sabres | Ullmark | W | .953 | 1.85 |
| Updated Season Stats | ||||
| Team | Goaltender | Record | SV% | GAA |
| Panthers | Bobrovsky | 1-2-1 | .882 | 3.87 |
| Sabres | Ullmark | 1-0-1 | .931 | 2.86 |
Post-Game Audio
Sabres head coach Ralph Krueger
Sabres forward Johan Larsson
Sabres forward Kyle Okposo
Sabres forward Zemgus Girgensons
Sabres forward Casey Mittelstadt
Sabres goaltender Linus Ullmark
Panthers head coach Joel Quenneville
Panthers forward Mike Hoffman
Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky
