The Chicago Blackhawks and the Buffalo Sabres meet in NHL action from the KeyBank Center on Saturday.
The Chicago Blackhawks will look to rebound from a 6-5 loss at the hands of the Edmonton Oilers in their last game. Patrick Kane leads Chicago with 8 points coming with a team-high 6 assists while Max Domi has 7 points with a team-high 4 goals. Tyler Johnson has 6 points with 2 goals and 4 assists while Jason Dickinson, Taylor Raddysh and Sam Lafferty all have 5 points with 2 goals and 3 assists and Jonathan Toews has 5 points with 4 goals of his own. Petr Mrazek has gone 1-1 with a 3.76 GAA and an .873 save percentage while Alex Stalock is 3-2 with a 3.00 GAA and a .912 save percentage while Petr Mrazek is 1-1 with a 3.76 GAA and an .873 save percentage in goal for Chicago this season.
The Buffalo Sabres will try to rebound from back-to-back losses after a 3-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens in their last outing. Rasmus Dahlin has a team-high 9 points and Alex Tuch is right behind with 8 points, with Dahlin logging 5 goals and 4 assists while Tuch has a team-high 6 goals. Casey Mittelstadt, Vinnie Hinostroza, Dylan Cozens and Victor Olofsson each have 5 points as well on the year for the Sabres. Eric Comrie’s gone 2-3 with a 3.41 GAA and a .909 save percentage while Craig Anderson’s 2-0 with a 1.00 GAA and a .970 save percentage so far in goal for Buffalo this season.
Chicago is 1-5 in their last 6 road games and 10-44 in their last 54 games against a team with a winning record while the over is 4-1 in their last 5 games overall. Buffalo is 9-4 in their last 13 games overall and 21-51 in their last 72 games against a team with a winning record while the under is 3-0-1 in their last 4 home games.
I get the case to be made for either side here, but I’m looking at the over here as I’m not trusting the goaltending on either side if I can help it and these are two teams that have done well at finding the back of the net in recent games, especially with how well Buffalo’s been playing under their new coach. I think we have a bit of a higher-scoring game in this one, so give me the over here.