One day after being outplayed by a then-winless Hurricanes team, the Buffalo Sabres look to get back on track by taking the second game of their home-and-home series against Carolina. The season debut for Jhonas Enroth did not go well yesterday, and sloppy play in all three zones resulted in too many giveaways and breakaways for the Sabres to overcome.
Game #4 – Buffalo Sabres (2-1-0) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (1-2-0)
Puck Drop – 7:00pm – First Niagara Center – Buffalo, NY
TV – MSG, FS-Carolinas — Radio – WGR 550-AM
Hurricanes Blog – Canes Country (Please play nice if you’re going to visit.)
Changes For Tonight
Ryan Miller will be in net tonight for Buffalo, and Hurricanes backup Dan Ellis is expected to start for the Canes. Other than that, Lindy Ruff said today in practice that -surprise, surprise – he won’t be juggling his lines just yet. The Sabres have the hottest thing going in their top line of Thomas Vanek, Cody Hodgson, and Jason Pominville, but have gotten little else from the rest of the team combined. They’ll either need to stepup the secondary scoring or play lockdown defense tonight to have a chance.
Buffalo Lines
Vanek – Hodgson – Pominville
Foligno – Ennis – Stafford
Ott – Grigorenko – Gerbe
Scott – Hecht- Kaleta
Myers – Regehr
Ehrhoff – Sulzer
Sekera – Leopold
Goal: Ryan Miller
Scratches: Leino, Weber, Brennan
Carolina Lines
Zach Boychuk – Eric Staal – Alexander Semin
Jeff Skinner – Jordan Staal – Zac Dalpe
Jiri Tlusty – Jussi Jokinen – Chad LaRose
Drayson Bowman – Tim Brent/Jeremy Welsh – Patrick Dwyer/Kevin Westgarth
Tim Gleason – Joe Corvo
Joni Pitkanen – Justin Faulk
Jay Harrison – Jamie McBain
Goal: Dan Ellis