Tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET, the Pittsburgh Penguins (39-15-2, 80 points) and Buffalo Sabres (15-32-8, 38 points) faceoff live from the First Niagara Center in Buffalo for the third and final meeting against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Pittsburgh fans can hear all of the action by adjusting their radios to 105.9 WXDX while Buffalo fans can do the same on WGR 550.
Pittsburgh enters play on top of the Eastern Conference and has won three of its last four while Buffalo has lost two in a row and four of its last five and sits in dead last in the Eastern Conference. The Penguins go for the season sweep after defeating the Sabres 4-1 on Oct. 6 and 3-0 on Jan. 27 both in Pittsburgh.
Marc-Andre Fleury became the fastest Penguins goalie to notch 30 victories when the Pens topped the Senators 2-1 in overtime on Monday. Fleury made a key save in the third period to keep his team in it.
"That's the best one I've ever seen him make," James Neal said afterwards, according to NHL.com. "He's been doing that all year. He's an unbelievable goalie. He showed that. His consistency has been great all year. He just keeps getting better."
Fleury is 30-13-1 with a 2.25 goals-against average and a .917 save percentage while he'll be opposed by Ryan Miller, who is 14-21-3 with a 2.68 GAA and a .925 save percentage.
Miller may suit up for the Sabres for the last time at the First Niagara Center as this is their last home game before the Olympic break and with the NHL trade deadline looming on March 5, the Sabres may deal the unrestricted free agent-to-be.
"We haven't talked about anything with regard to contracts," Miller said Tuesday of his future with Buffalo per NHL.com. "We haven't talked about anything with regard to trades."
The Sabres are still without top scorer Matt Moulson (15-18-33) due to an upper-body injury, making the leading scorers Cody Hodgson, who has 30 points off of 14 goals and 16 assists and Tyler Ennis, who has 27 points off of 12 tallies and 15 helpers.
Sidney Crosby has paced the Penguins with 75 points off of 27 goals and 48 assists while Chris Kunitz has 27 markers and 28 helpers for 55 points and Evgeni Malkin also has 55 points while lighting the lamp 16 times and adding 39 assists. Kunitz and Malkin each have three-game point streaks.
The best team in the east meets the worst team in the east when the puck drops at the First Niagara Center tonight in Buffalo.
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