With it being an afternoon game against the Sabres neither team is expected to take a game day skate. At Saturday’s skate coach Maurice used Anthony Peluso and Adam Pardy at forward as both Mark Scheifele and Alexander Burmistrov were absent from the skate.
The projected lines, D pairs are pre-skate warm up skate:
Stafford-Little-Wheeler
Ladd-Lowry-Burmistrov
Thorburn-Perreault-Ehlers
Armia-Copp-Peluso
Trouba-Byfuglien
Enstrom-Myers
Stuart-Chiarot
Hellebuyck
Hutchinson.
Sabres lines come to us from Buffalo News beat writer Mike Harrington:
Kane-O’Reiley-McGinn
Girgensons-Eichel-Reinhart
Foligno-Larsson-Gionta
Moulson-Schaller-Legwand
