Tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET, the Buffalo Sabres (2-11-1, 3 points) and New York Rangers (4-7-0, 8 points) faceoff live from Madison Square Garden in New York City. The game can be live streamed here. Buffalo fans can hear all the bone-crunching action by dialing their radios to WGR 550 AM while New York fans can do the same by tuning into 1130 Bloomberg Radio.
Buffalo enters the game with the worst record in the NHL and the least amount of points while it finds itself in the basement of the Atlantic Division and 15 points behind the division-leading Toronto Maple Leafs while the Rangers enter in seventh place in the Metropolitan Division, 10 points behind the first place Pittsburgh Penguins. The Rangers rank 29th in goals-for per game (1.64) while the Sabres (1.57) are dead last.
The Rangers kickoff their homestand after playing 10 of their first 11 on the road and suffering through some inconsistent stretches. The Rangers are coming in off of a 3-2 victory over the rival New York Islanders after Benoit Pouliot scored the game-winner with just 6:04 left in the game.
"He's a big body so I tried to get in behind him and he made a good play," said Carl Hagelin, who assisted on the game-winner in his first game of the season, according to NHL.com. "I saw him wide open, pretty easy pass to make and he buried it."
Buffalo is coming off of a 4-3 loss at the hands of the Dallas Stars in the first game for newly acquired forward Matt Moulson, who the Sabres got along with two draft picks in exchange for Thomas Vanek earlier this week. Moulson scored two goals in his debut and has seven tallies in seven games.
"That was the most nervous I've been for a game since probably my first game I played in the NHL," Moulson said per NHL.com. "I had butterflies in the stomach and [the first goal] kind of settled me down out there."
The Rangers expect to have Henrik Lundqvist in net after he sat out during the game in Long Island Tuesday after playing in the Rangers home opener against the Montreal Canadiens Monday night. The former Vezina Trophy winner is 2-5-0 with a 3.25 goals-against average and a .895 save percentage after a rough start to the season.
Buffalo counters with Ryan Miller between the pipes, who is 1-9-0 with a 3.13 GAA and a .914 save percentage.
If the scoring woes are any indication so far, Lundqvist and Miller shouldn't be tested much. The Rangers post no players with double digits in points through their first 11 games as Brad Richards leads the team with nine points off of a team-high five goals and four assists while Derek Stepan has yet to find the twine but has a team-high seven helpers thus far.
Buffalo meanwhile, has two players with double digits in points as after being acquired, Moulson leads the team with 11 points on eight goals and three assists while Cody Hodgson has lit the lamp four times and pitched in six helpers for 10 points.
Two teams that struggle to score go at it tonight when the Sabres visit the Rangers and the puck drops at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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