Tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET, the Buffalo Sabres (21-49-9, 51 points) and New York Rangers (44-31-5, 93 points) faceoff at Madison Square Garden in New York for the third and final meeting between each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Buffalo fans can hear all of the action on WGR 550 while New York fans can do the same on 98.7 WEPN.
Buffalo will finish with the NHL's worst record but will look to play spoiler while New York is hopeful to claim home ice in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs and looks for the season sweep. The Rangers secured a 2-0 win over the Sabres in New York on Oct. 31 and also notched a 3-1 triumph Dec. 5 in Buffalo.
The Rangers are continuously trying to get Martin St. Louis going as he's been snake-bitten having scored just one goal as a Ranger since being acquired from the Tampa Bay Lightning prior to the NHL's trade deadline. St. Louis enters play as the team's highest scorer, but most of that damage was done in Tampa Bay.
"I got pucks and good scoring chances tonight," St. Louis said after the team's last game, a 4-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes, per the Daily News. "I just didn't put it in. I put myself in good position to make plays and get scoring chances. Sometimes you get one scoring chance and you score. Sometimes you get three, four and you don't."
St. Louis (30-38-68), Mats Zuccarello (19-39-58) and Derek Stepan (17-39-56), lead the Rangers in scoring this season.
The Sabres look to play spoiler as the playoffs are out of the question, and they may get Henrik Tallinder back from a four-game absence due to a lower-body injury.
"It felt pretty good," Tallinder said via NHL.com after testing out his injury. "I can still feel it a little bit, but it's not pain."
Cody Hodgson (19-24-43), Tyler Ennis (21-21-42) and Matt Moulson (17-21-38) all pace the Sabres this season in points.
Henrik Lundqvist will man the crease for New York, and is 32-24-5 with a 2.39 goals-against average and a .920 save percentage. With a rash of injuries to Buffalo goalies, they'll likely turn to Matt Hackett, who is 1-4-1 with a 3.20 GAA and a .909 save percentage.
The Sabres and Rangers close out their season series when the puck drops tonight at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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