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News and notes leading into Monday's game by Jourdon LaBarber @jourdonlabarber / Sabres.com Rasmus Asplund will step into the lineup in place of Cody Eakin when the Buffalo Sabres host the Washington Capitals at KeyBank Center on Monday.  Asplund has appeared in four games for Buffalo this season. He has skated with the taxi squad since last appearing against New Jersey on Feb. 25. "We've spoken about potential rotations and m...

It was before the loss began. Before patient zero turned up in Manitoba, before the first of us died, before the virus ripped through our community, before the homes of our elderly were stricken with sickness, before the hospitals were overrun, before the doctors and nurses revolted, before the economy shut down, before the daily death toll became nightly news. Before all that, there was a hockey game. A Monday in Winnipeg. The temperature drops below zero but the sun is out in full force. A normal weekday afternoon fades into a normal weekday evening. As rush-hour traffic streams th...

The Buffalo News' Lance Lysowski:  4 Taylor Hall - 24 Dylan Cozens - 23 Sam Reinhart 68 Victor Olofsson - 12 Eric Staal - 15 Riley Sheahan 53 Jeff Skinner - 27 Curtis Lazar - 37 Casey Mittelstadt  13 Tobias Rieder - 20 Cody Eakin - 21 Kyle Okposo  Jonas Johansson was the first goaltender off the ice, likely lining him up to make his second straight start.   Scouting the Flyers The Sabres dominated in just about every phase of the game during their first meeting with the Flyers, a 6-1 win in Philadelphia on Jan. 18. Since then, they have been shut out in three straight meetings with the Fl...

Matt Martin scored twice and the New York Islanders beat the Buffalo Sabres 5-2 on Thursday night in the opener of a three-game series. Noah Dobson, Anthony Beauvillier and Jordan Eberle also scored for New York, and rookie Ilya Sorokin stopped 16 shots. The Islanders improved to 5-0-1 in their last six overall and 8-0-2 at the Nassau Coliseum to remain the only team without a regulation loss at home.

Lineup notes entering Thursday's game by Jourdon LaBarber @jourdonlabarber / Sabres.com Coming off wins in two of their past three games, the Buffalo Sabres plan to maintain a similar lineup in their rematch with the New Jersey Devils at KeyBank Center on Thursday.  Jeff Skinner will remain a healthy scratch for the third straight game. Tobias Rieder took part in the morning skate but remains day-to-day with an upper-body inju...