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2. Evaluating the team at even strength   The Sabres have yet to establish consistent 5-on-5 scoring, tied for 17th with 12 goals. They have played .500 hockey in spite of that thanks to sound play systematically. The loss to a desperate Rangers team on Thursday was an outlier. Since the third period of the opener against Washington, the Sabres had consistently outshot and outchanced opponents despite varying results. They entered Thursday ranked third in high-danger chance percentage (64.3) and fourth in expected goals percentage (57.4).  Even after being heavily outshot by the Rangers, th...

Washington was fined $100,000 on Wednesday for violating COVID-19 protocols, which resulted in forwards Alex Ovechkin and Evgeny Kuznetsov, defenseman Dmitry Orlov, and goaltender Ilya Samsonov being placed on the COVID-related absence list. Coach Peter Laviolette said all four players are quarantining and are expected to miss at least the next four games. The NHL said in its statement that the Capitals' violations "involved social interactions among team members who were in close contact and who were not wearing face coverings." In a team-issued statement, the Capitals said the interaction o...

The Buffalo News' Lance Lysowski.  4 Taylor Hall - 9 Jack Eichel - 23 Sam Reinhart 68 Victor Olofsson - 12 Eric Staal - 24 Dylan Cozens 13 Tobias Rieder - 20 Cody Eakin - 72 Tage Thompson 53 Jeff Skinner - 27 Curtis Lazar - 15 Riley Sheahan 19 Jake McCabe - 55 Rasmus Ristolainen 26 Rasmus Dahlin - 62 Brandon Montour 33 Colin Miller - 10 Henri Jokiharju  Dylan Cozens moves up to the second line alongside Victor Olofsson and Eric Staal following a strong first two games, which we detailed Sunday. Tage Thompson, who started the season alongside Hall and Eichel, has moved to a line with Tobias...

News and notes from Sunday's practice.

Why the Toronto Maple Leafs will win the Stanley Cup in 2021 play How will the 2021 NHL season be different than previous seasons? (3:41) Greg Wyshynski joins SportsNation to discuss the upcoming NHL season and who he thinks will take home the Stanley Cup. (3:41) Everything you're about to read can change in a cough. That's the reality of the 2021 NHL season, which is being played inside (mostly) empty arenas during the COVID-19 pandemic. The league released the names of 27 players who began the season with a "COVID Protocol Related Absence," and that's not including the 17 members of the Dal...