It's a 5:00pm ET start in Buffalo tonight.
Bill Roose of the Wings's website on Brian Lashoff making his regular season debut tonight...
“Lash is a good pro, he’s worked real hard, he’s going to be an important penalty killer for us, was last year,” coach Mike Babcock said. “He gets his opportunity and when you get your opportunity you gotta make good and you gotta carve out a little niche for yourself, so make it a competition for the other guys.”
Lashoff predicts that his biggest obstacle Sunday will be just getting re-acclimated to regular-season game pace.
“Little things like your gap and getting back to pucks are two things that are important for our team and for our success,” Lashoff said. “Those are two things that I’ll have to concentrate on the most, especially gapping out there and making sure I don’t have too much space between myself and the opposing forwards. Sometimes when you get a lot of time off it might seem like it might be tough but I think in practice we do a god job of doing a lot of drills.”
more on the Wings
Mike Weaver of the Buffalo Sabres talked after Buffalo's 5-0 loss to the Penguins last night. Watch below and a few game notes on the Sabres too...
Note- No notes on the Detroit Red Wings today and really not much has changed since the win against the Kings,
BUFFALO SABRES
RED WINGS at SABRES
This is the first of four meetings between the Sabres and Red Wings this season.
Next meeting: Tuesday, Dec. 23 in Detroit
The Sabres are 1-7-2 in their last 10 games vs. the Red Wings; 2-7-1 at home.
This is the 121st game all-time between Buffalo and Detroit; Buffalo has a 53-51-16 series record.
The Sabres are 34-16-9 at home against the Red Wings all-time.
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
Matt Moulson has eight points (5+3) in his last six games against Detroit.
Zemgus Girgensons enjoyed a trio of NHL firsts against the Red Wings last season. He scored his first NHL goal in his first NHL game at DET (10/2) and recorded his first NHL two-goal game vs. DET (4/8).
Chris Stewart leads the Sabres with 13 career points (6+7) in 24 games against the Red Wings.
The Sabres have lost their last eight games against the Red Wings, marking the longest drought against Detroit in franchise history.
The last win was a 6-2 victory in Buffalo on Oct. 13, 2009
BACK-TO-BACK
Tonight’s game wraps up Buffalo’s fourth of 19 sets of back-to-back games this season, which began with a 5-0 loss in Pittsburgh yesterday. The Sabres are 0-4-0 in the first game of back-to-back sets and 1-2-0 in the second game. Buffalo’s point breakdown in previous back-to- back sets is: four points (0), three points (0), two points (1), one point (0) and zero points (2).
BUF-DET CONNECTIONS
Ted Nolan:
Played parts of two seasons for the Red Wings (1981-82 and 1983-84), appearing in a total of 60 games. Initially selected by Detroit in the fifth round of the 1978 NHL Draft, Nolan tallied 20 points(5+15) during his time with the club.
Andre Benoit:
Played with Jakub Kindl for the Kitchener Rangers during the 2004-05 season.
Nicolas Deslauriers:
Shares a birthday with Andrej Nestrasil. Both players were born on Feb. 22, 1991. The two were also drafted in the third round of the 2009 NHL Draft. Nestrasil went 75th overall, and Deslauriers was waken 84th
Tyler Ennis:
Played with Darren Helm for two seasons (2005-2007) with the Medicine Hat Tigers (WHL).
Jhonas Enroth:
Played with Niklas Kronwall, Henrik Zetterberg, Johan Franzen and Jonathan Ericsson for Sweden at the 2012 World Championship.
Played with Joakim Andersson for Sweden at the 2008 World Junior Championship.
Played with Jonas Gustavsson, Niklas Kronwall, Jonathan Ericsson, Henrik Zetterberg and Gustav Nyquist for Sweden at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
He and Niklas Kronwall are natives of Stockholm, Sweden.
Brian Flynn:
Played with Gustav Nyquist at the University of Maine for three seasons from 2008-2011.
Cody Hodgson:
Hodgson, Stephen Weiss and Brendan Smith were all born in Toronto, Ontario.
Matt Moulson
Played with Kyle Quincey for the Los Angeles Kings during the 2008-09 season.
Andrej Meszaros:
Played with Tomas Jurco and Tomas Tatar for Slovakia at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Played with Drew Miller for the Tampa Bay Lightning during the 2009-10 season.
Chris Stewart:
Played with Kyle Quincey for the Colorado Avalanche from 2009-2011.
Tyson Strachan:
Played with Stephen Weiss for the Florida Panthers from 2011-2013.
Mike Weber:
Played with Brian Lashoff for the Barrie Colts (OHL) during the 2006-07 season.
Local Players:
Riley Sheahan was born in St. Catharines, Ontario.
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