O'Reilly finished among the league's top three in faceoffs won in his each of his first two seasons in Buffalo, but this season his responsibilities have reached new heights. He's won 54 draws in two games since Jack Eichel went down with a high-ankle sprain, giving him a league-high 856 wins this season.
At his current pace - and recent numbers without Eichel suggest that pace will only increase - he would finish the season with 1,238 faceoff wins. That would be the second-highest total in a single season since the NHL began tracking faceoff stats in 1997-98. Rod Brind'Amour holds the record with 1,268 (via @Sabres PR).
Not only is O'Reilly winning draws in mass quantities, he's been doing it with elite efficiency. O'Reilly leads the NHL (minimum 100 attempts) with a 61.3-percent success rate in the faceoff circle. Only two players have won 1,000 or more draws in a season while maintaining at least a 59-percent clip: Brind'Amour (five times) and Boston's Patrice Bergeron (two times).
Read more here. And keep a look out for a new edition of Tablet Talk featuring Martin Biron and - you guessed it - Ryan O'Reilly.
We'll also have news and notes from the morning skate coming up for you as well. That'll lead up to the GMC Game Night pregame show at 7 p.m. on MSG. Faceoff is scheduled for just after 7:30 on MSG and WGR 550.
The Sabres are back home for a pair of games starting Saturday afternoon.