This post will be updated following Don Granato's media availability in Pittsburgh later this evening.
The Buffalo Sabres and Pittsburgh Penguins will go at it again tonight at PPG Paints Arena. Last night at KeyBank Center, the Penguins pulled off a 4-3 overtime win.
Faceoff tonight is set for 7 p.m. on MSG and WGR 550 with pregame coverage on MSG starting at 6:30.
Here are five things to know ahead of tonight's game:
Video: Condensed Game: Penguins @ Sabres
1. Jeff Skinner will have a hearing today with the NHL Department of Player Safety for his cross-check on Penguins forward Jake Guentzel towards the end of regulation of last night's game. Skinner and Guentzel both received minor penalties on the play, and Skinner was also assessed a five-minute major, putting Buffalo on the penalty kill in overtime.
Jeff Carter eventually scored the game-winning goal with the man advantage.
2. Skinner, Tage Thompson and Jack Quinn all enter tonight's game on six-game point streaks.
Skinner has 11 points (4+7) in that stretch, Thompson has 15 (8+7), and Quinn has seven (3+4). Thompson is also riding a six-game assist streak, the longest of his career.
3. This is the third and final meeting between the Sabres and the Penguins this season. Buffalo has recorded at least one point in each of its last five meetings with Pittsburgh.
The Sabres are 4-4-2 in their last 10 games against the Penguins and 4-5-1 on the road. Buffalo is 28-54-22 on the road against the Penguins all-time.
4. The Sabres have converted on 28.9 percent of their power-play opportunities through their first 27 games of 2022-23. The current franchise record for power-play percentage in a single season is 24.5 percent, set in 2016-17.
An NHL team has only recorded a power-play percentage of 28.9 percent or higher in a full season seven other times in NHL history. They're currently tied for the third-best power play in the league.
Video: PIT@BUF: Okposo fires in a shot on the power play
5. Buffalo is 8-1-0 in games in which Rasmus Dahlin records multiple points in 2022-23. He's on pace for 100 points this season, which would shatter Phil Housley's single-season franchise points record by a Sabres defenseman (81).
Dahlin would be the first NHL defensemen since Brian Leetch (102 points) in 1991-92 to record 100 or more points in a single season.
Following Buffalo's game last night, among NHL defensemen, Dahlin ranked first in points per game (1.23), second in goals (9), second in points (32), first in power-play points (17), tied for first in power-play goals (4), tied for third in assists (23), and fourth in time on ice per game (25:43).
He has recorded 15 points (2+13) in his last 12 games.
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