Sabres at Golden Knights

SABRES (14-23-7) at GOLDEN KNIGHTS (26-16-3)

Sabres projected lineup
Peyton Krebs -- Tage Thompson -- Alex Tuch
Jeff Skinner -- Dylan Cozens -- Kyle Okposo
Anders Bjork -- Rasmus Asplund -- Victor Olofsson
Mark Jankowski -- Cody Eakin -- John Hayden
Rasmus Dahlin -- Henri Jokiharju
Mattias Samuelsson -- Casey Fitzgerald
Jacob Bryson -- Mark Pysyk
Craig Anderson
Dustin Tokarski
Scratched: Robert Hagg
Injured: Will Butcher (lower body), Drake Caggiula (upper body), Zemgus Girgensons (lower body), Vinnie Hinostroza (upper body), Jack Quinn (lower body), Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (lower body), Colin Miller (upper body), Malcolm Subban (upper body)
Suspended: Aaron Dell
COVID-19 protocol: Michael Houser
Golden Knights projected lineup
Max Pacioretty -- Nolan Patrick -- Mark Stone
Jonathan Marchessault -- William Karlsson -- Reilly Smith
Mattias Janmark -- Nicolas Roy -- Evgenii Dadonov
William Carrier -- Brett Howden -- Keegan Kolesar
Nicolas Hague -- Alex Pietrangelo
Brayden McNabb -- Shea Theodore
Ben Hutton -- Daniil Miromanov
Robin Lehner
Laurent Brossoit
Scratched: Michael Amadio, Dylan Coghlan
Injured: Jack Eichel (neck), Alec Martinez (facial laceration), Adam Brooks (undisclosed), Zach Whitecloud (undisclosed)
COVID-19 protocol: Chandler Stephenson
Status report
Thompson will return after missing a 4-1 loss at the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday with an undisclosed injury. … Asplund will play after missing one game in COVID-19 protocol. ... Hague will be a game-time decision because of an undisclosed injury. … Whitecloud, a defenseman, will not play. ... Golden Knights coach Peter DeBoer said there will be more game-time decisions and one or two defensemen could each make his NHL debut.