The game between the Buffalo Sabres and Ottawa Senators will take place at KeyBank Center on Thursday, April 13 at 7:00 PM ET.
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The Buffalo Sabres will welcome the Ottawa Senators to KeyBank Center for an NHL game on Thursday. The Ottawa Senators lost 6-2 in their last game over the Devils. Jeff Skinner and Mattias Samuelsson scored for the Sabres, whose late run wasn’t enough to earn the franchise its first playoff berth since 2011. The 12-year run is the NHL’s current longest postseason drought. Emerging 21-year-old star Devon Levi made 24 saves in losing for the second time in six starts.
Sabres defenseman Rasmus Dahlin said the finality of the losing was a gut punch. “Yeah, honestly, it’s pretty empty,” he said. “I didn’t know I was going to feel like this. But, you know, it is what it is. But the boys have fought hard and now we know what we’re capable of. We played in a couple months or so, but a little too late.”
The game also marked the NHL debut of defenseman Luke Hughes, the younger brother of star center Jack Hughes. He was the No. 4 overall pick in the 2021 NHL draft and signed last weekend after his season at Michigan ended in the Final Four.
The Ottawa Senators on the other hand won 3-2 against the Hurricanes in their last game. Ottawa Senators forward Claude Giroux joined an illustrious group Monday night with a pair of goals and an assist in a 3-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes to reach 1,000 career NHL points. Giroux became the 96th player to achieve the milestone.
“Yeah, I mean, I have a lot of family here right now,” said Giroux. “So, it’s special and my wife and my two boys are here and my parents and it was really cool.” The 35-year-old entered the game needing two points to hit the momentous marker and took less than one period to make it happen. Giroux picked up point 999 with his 33rd goal of the season just after the five-minute mark and number 1,000 came on an assist when he set up Tim Stutzle with under three minutes remaining in the period.
Captain Brady Tkachuk had a secondary assist on the play and motioned to his teammates to join him on the ice to celebrate the moment. “Yeah, just trying to keep my emotions intact and you know, I knew it was going to happen that they were going to come all on the ice, but to actually happen it was definitely a little different, but it was special,” said Giroux.
Alex Tuch – Casey Mittelstadt – Mattias Samuelsson
Jeff Skinner – Jacob Bryson – Dylan Cozens
Rasmus Dahlin – Zemgus Girgensons – Jordan Greenway
Henri Jokiharju – Tyson Jost
Peyton Krebs – Ilya Lyubushkin
Kyle Okposo – JJ Peterka
Owen Power – Jack Quinn
Tage Thompson
Claude Giroux – Tim Stützle – Brady Tkachuk
Erik Brännström – Shane Pinto – Drake Batherson
Jacob Bernard-Docker – Patrick Brown – Alex DeBrincat
Dylan Gambrell – Julien Gauthier
Nick Holden – Mathieu Joseph
Mark Kastelic – Tyler Kleven
Jake Sanderson – Mads Sogaard
Egor Sokolov
Artyom Zub
Buffalo Sabres: Craig Anderson, Ben Bishop
Ottawa Senators: Anton Forsberg, Jakob Chychrun, Thomas Chabot, Austin Watson, Travis Hamonic, Derick Brassard, Parker Kelly, Josh Norris
The game between the Buffalo Sabres and Ottawa Senators will take place at KeyBank Center on Thursday, April 13 at 7:00 PM ET.
The match between the Buffalo Sabres and Ottawa Senators will be telecast live on MSG.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | MSG. | April 13 (7:00 PM ET) |
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