Sabres at Stars

SABRES (16-29-8) at STARS (28-20-3)

Sabres projected lineup
Jeff Skinner -- Tage Thompson -- Alex Tuch
Rasmus Asplund -- Dylan Cozens -- Kyle Okposo
Peyton Krebs -- Casey Mittelstadt -- Victor Olofsson
Anders Bjork -- Cody Eakin -- John Hayden
Rasmus Dahlin -- Casey Fitzgerald
Mattias Samuelsson -- Jacob Bryson
Robert Hagg -- Mark Pysyk
Dustin Tokarski
Craig Anderson
Scratched: Mark Jankowski
Injured: Henri Jokiharju (lower body), Jack Quinn (lower body), Will Butcher (lower body), Vinnie Hinostroza (lower body), Zemgus Girgensons (lower body), Colin Miller (upper body), Drake Caggiula (upper body)
Stars projected lineup
Jason Robertson -- Roope Hintz -- Joe Pavelski
Jamie Benn -- Tyler Seguin -- Denis Gurianov
Riley Tufte -- Jacob Peterson -- Alexander Radulov
Michael Raffl -- Radek Faksa -- Luke Glendening
Esa Lindell -- John Klingberg
Ryan Suter -- Miro Heiskanen
Thomas Harley -- Jani Hakanpaa
Jake Oettinger
Braden Holtby
Scratched: Joel Hanley, Joel Kiviranta, Marián Studenič
Injured: Andrej Sekera (upper body)
Status report
Jokiharju is doubtful to play after the defenseman left in the second period of a 4-0 loss at the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday. ... Dallas claimed Studenic, a forward, off waivers from the New Jersey Devils on Thursday. ... The Stars assigned forward
Tanner Kero
to Texas of the American Hockey League on Friday after he cleared waivers. ... Oettinger will make his sixth straight start.