Buffalo Sabres at Carolina Hurricanes
PNC Arena, 7 p.m.
TV: SportsSouth, MSG Buffalo
With every team having to deal with a shortened training camp, there are bound to be a lot of roster and lineup changes throughout these first few weeks. Carolina's head coach, Kirk Muller made a few adjustments to the lineup before Tuesday nights game by subbing Jeremy Welsh and Kevin Westgarth in for Zach Boychuk and Zac Dalpe but the move he made today was much bigger. In an attempt to get Jamie McBain into the lineup, Joe Corvo will be sitting tonight in favor of the young defenseman which surprised some fans because many thought it would be Bobby Sanguinetti sitting instead of Corvo.
My take on this situation is that the Carolina coaching staff still wants to evaluate Sanguinetti since they didn't have much time to do so in training camp. He has looked bad so far, but it's hard to judge a defenseman's body of work with only two games, so this kind of puts them in a t...
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PLAYERS:
Jeremy Welsh,
Kevin Westgarth,
Zach Boychuk,
Zac Dalpe,
Jamie McBain,
Joe Corvo,
Bobby Sanguinetti,
Marcus Foligno,
Cody Hodgson,
Mikhail Grigorenko,
Thomas Vanek,
Jason Pominville,
Tyler Myers,
Andrej Sekera,
Jordan Leopold,
Cam Ward,
Alexander Semin,
Eric Staal,
Jiri Tlusty,
Jordan Staal,
Jussi Jokinen,
Drayson Bowman,
Chad LaRose,
Lindy Ruff,
John Scott
TEAMS: Buffalo Sabres, Carolina Hurricanes
TEAMS: Buffalo Sabres, Carolina Hurricanes
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