GDT: #1 – Sabres at Red Wings – Wed Oct 2 – 8:00PM ET – TV: NBCSN, TSN2 – Radio: WGR-AM

[Woodhouse]

GDT #1: BUF (0-0-0) at DET (0-0-0) – WED OCT 2 – 8:00PM ET – NBCSN, TSN2 – WGR-AM – CHAT

09/30 – Foligno likely to miss opener (Chris Ryndak – Sabres.com)

09/30 – Wings put four on IR, assign Nyquist to minors (Bill Roose – DetroitRedWings.com)

10/01 – Healthy Leino excited about new opportunities with Sabres (Bill Hoppe – Olean Times Herald)

10/01 – Sabres reach 23-man roster limit by placing Foligno on IR (Bill Hoppe – Olean Times Herald)

10/01 – Wings' Emmerton feels roster squeeze (Bill Roose – DetroitRedWings.com)

10/01 – Excitement for new season fills the air (Bill Roose – DetroitRedWings.com)

10/01 – Ott and Vanek to share captaincy (Chris Ryndak – Sabres.com)

10/01 – Game Preview: 10/2/13 at Detroit (Ian Ott – Sabres PR)

10/02 – Vanek and Ott ready to captain Sabres (Bill Hoppe – Olean Times Herald)​

BUFFALO SABRES

Projected Lineup (11:30am morning skate at Joe Louis Arena)

26 Thomas Vanek ("A") – 19 Cody Hodgson – 21 Drew Stafford
9 Steve Ott ("C") – 63 Tyler Ennis – 23 Ville Leino
28 Zemgus Girgensons – 25 Mikhail Grigorenko – 65 Brian Flynn
12 Kevin Porter – 8 Cody McCormick – 36 Patrick Kaleta

10 Christian Ehrhoff ("A") – 3 Mark Pysyk
20 Henrik Tallinder – 57 Tyler Myers
6 Mike Weber – 55 Rasmus Ristolainen

30 Ryan Miller
1 Jhonas Enroth

Lineup News & Notes

Johan Larsson, Jamie McBain and John Scott are projected scratches.

Weekly Transactions

Buffalo, to get to the 23-player roster limit on Monday, waived Luke Adam and Alexander Sulzer to Rochester/AHL
and placed Joel Armia (hand), Marcus Foligno (shoulder), Corey Tropp (jaw) and Nikita Zadorov (lacerated finger)
on injured reserve.

According to the Stats

This is the 117th meeting between Buffalo and Detroit. Buffalo leads the series with a 53-47-16 record.​

DETROIT RED WINGS

Projected Lineup

40 Henrik Zetterberg ("C") – 13 Pavel Datsyuk ("A") – 8 Justin Abdelkader
93 Johan Franzen – 90 Stephen Weiss – 11 Daniel Alfredsson
71 Daniel Cleary – 18 Joakim Andersson – 44 Todd Bertuzzi
20 Drew Miller – 25 Cory Emmerton – 37 Mikael Samuelsson

55 Niklas Kronwall ("A") – 52 Jonathan Ericsson
65 Danny DeKeyser – 4 Jakub Kindl
27 Kyle Quincey – 2 Brendan Smith

35 Jimmy Howard
34 Petr Mrazek

Lineup News & Notes

Brian Lashoff and Tomas Tatar are projected scratches.

Weekly Transactions

Detroit, to get to the 23-player roster limit on Monday, assigned Petr Mrazek and Gustav Nyquist to Grand Rapids/AHL
and placed Patrick Eaves (MCL/ankle), Jonas Gustavsson (groin), Darren Helm (back) and Jordin Tootoo (shoulder) on
injured reserve. They also recalled Jared Coreau and Xavier Ouellet to be salary cap compliant, but reassigned the pair
yesterday and recalled Mrazek to backup Jimmy Howard in goal.

According to the Stats

Detroit have made the playoffs 22 consecutive seasons, earning 100 points in each of the last twelve 82-game seasons.
They are 35-18-5-1 all-time versus Buffalo on home ice.​

A/V CLUB

09/30 – Ron Rolston speaks with the media following Monday's practice at FNC. <8:00>

09/30 – Zemgus Girgensons speaks with the media following Monday's practice at FNC. <2:52>

09/30 – Johan Larsson speaks with the media following Monday's practice at FNC. <0:51>

09/30 – Rasmus Ristolainen speaks with the media following Monday's practice at FNC. <2:23>

09/30 – Mike Weber speaks with the media following Monday's practice at FNC. <3:17>

10/01 – Ron Rolston speaks with the media following Tuesday's practice at FNC. <5:41>

10/01 – Tyler Ennis speaks with the media following Tuesday's practice at FNC. <1:02>

10/01 – Ryan Miller speaks with the media following Tuesday's practice at FNC. <6:20>

10/01 – Tyler Myers speaks with the media following Tuesday's practice at FNC. <3:45>

10/01 – Christian Ehrhoff speaks with the media following Tuesday's practice at FNC. <2:23>

10/01 – Steve Ott speaks with the media following Tuesday's practice at FNC. <3:23>

10/01 – Thomas Vanek speaks with the media following Tuesday's practice at FNC. <3:54>

10/02 – Ron Rolston speaks with the media following Wednesday's morning skate at Joe Louis Arena. <0:00>

LAST H2H GAME

01/16/2012 – Buffalo 0 at Detroit 5.

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[Chainshot]

Nice job as always Woodhouse.

 

[PlamsUnlimited]

And here we go...

 

[jBuds]

5-2 Lawce

Zedurbherg, Phranzynne, Dattsouke, Duhkhaizur, Wice

Hahjcin, Vannicque

Amped up but expect Detroit to be the better team for most of the game

 

[enthusiast]

I am geeked as ****
Sabres gonna win the game
A big rivalry?

 

[NotABadPeriod]

3-2, Sabres, OT.

 

[couture23]

I am so ******* excited.

I thought Myers was going to be with Hoff and then Tallinder-Pysyk, no? That didn't go as planned?

 

[couture23]

Hahaha that first goal in the replay - Leopold turnover turns into a goal.

 

[jBuds]

Don't understand how Larsson is up but scratched. Hoping that's incorrect. Kid was impressive in preseason.

 

[ZZamboni]

1st regular season GDT of the 2013-2014 season!!!!

Nice work woody


May the season of pain and suffering commence.

5-2 Red Wings


Myers, Leino, or Girgensons get a goal

 

[couture23]

Don't understand how Larsson is up but scratched. Hoping that's incorrect. Kid was impressive in preseason.

Yeah I'm actually kind of pissed off. The kid deserves to be starting, they just have a steady hard-on for Zemgus (rightfully so).

 

[start winnin]

Larsson better be in the line up. -_-

 

[couture23]

Larsson better be in the line up. -_-

Nope, got to have all-star McCormick in there!

 

[haseoke39]

4-2 Wings.

Vanek with a goal in a second period that sees the Sabres try super hard and get mostly frustrated.

Grigorenko sits most of the third.

 

[NotABadPeriod]

Don't understand how Larsson is up but scratched. Hoping that's incorrect. Kid was impressive in preseason.

I was thinking maybe to have a spare forward if someone gets hurt in warm-ups or something, but Scott is still there, so....

Perhaps someone is banged up that we don't know about? Hell, maybe even Larsson? Or maybe Rolston wants the option to put Larsson in for Grigorenko?

 

[PlamsUnlimited]

Dearest RonRol

Please let Larsson have a go

Love, us

 

[Zip15]

5-1, Wings.

Hodgson

Tatar
Kronwall
Alfie (of course)
Franzen
Datsyuk

 

[jc17]

5-2 sabres.
Vanek(2)
Grigorenko
Ennis/leino
Ehrhoff

 

[5 Minute Major]

No way in hell Detroit pots 5 on the Sabres. This team will be much more sound, defensively, than last year.

3-2, Buffalo stuns Detroit in Motown!

Stafford, Vanek and Ehrhoff for the good guys.

 

[littletonhockeycoach]

Great! Hockey's back!!!

No more foolin' around trying get a stream to work only to see my computer get loaded up with extra tool bars, different media/video players, pop ups and other useless garbage (maleware warnings) etc!

(That's right, I'm definitely not an IT geek. At best , only barely tech capable.....)

Prediction: 5 -1 Wings. Men against the boys. Reality check time for Miller and Vanek.

Nonetheless, it's SABRES HOCKEY

 

[StlSwedes]

It will not take long before Larsson to get himself into the lineup. I will be patient.

Going to be hard to see the Sabres go on the road and beat Detroit in their home opener.

Detroit wins 3-2

 

[sabresfan129103]

Ugh, I have class. Thank god for Firstrowsports.

 

[BSabres]

Hockey is back baby!! Let's Go Buffalo!!

 

[ZZamboni]

Great! Hockey's back!!!

No more foolin' around trying get a stream to work only to see my computer get loaded up with extra tool bars, different media/video players, pop ups and other useless garbage (maleware warnings) etc!

(That's right, I'm definitely not an IT geek. At best , only barely tech capable.....)

Prediction: 5 -1 Wings. Men against the boys. Reality check time for Miller and Vanek.

Nonetheless, it's SABRES HOCKEY

Knock on wood, I haven't downloaded any toolbars etc... Because you NEVER need to download anything from various streams. If it asks you too, you either click on the full screen option and that garbage goes away. Or find a different stream. Or worst case, just listen to the WGR radio feed on their website. But you should never EVER download any garbage from streaming websites.

 

[Woodhouse]

Don't understand how Larsson is up but scratched. Hoping that's incorrect. Kid was impressive in preseason.

I thought Myers was going to be with Hoff and then Tallinder-Pysyk, no? That didn't go as planned?

I find Larsson's exclusion easily more frustrating than Myers with Tallinder, but the current OP combos are simply the latest lineup from Monday's practice. As usual, they could always change at Tuesday's practice or Wednesday's morning skate.