Lightning at Sabres

LIGHTNING (12-7-1) at SABRES (9-12-0)

Lightning projected lineup
Brandon Hagel -- Brayden Point -- Nikita Kucherov
Steven Stamkos -- Nick Paul -- Alex Killorn
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare -- Vladislav Namestnikov -- Corey Perry
Cole Koepke -- Ross Colton -- Patrick Maroon
Victor Hedman -- Erik Cernak
Mikhail Sergachev -- Nick Perbix
Ian Cole -- Zach Bogosian
Brian Elliott
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Scratched: Haydn Fleury, Philippe Myers
Injured: Rudolfs Balcers (upper body), Anthony Cirelli (shoulder), Cal Foote (upper body)
Sabres projected lineup
Jeff Skinner -- Tage Thompson -- Alex Tuch
JJ Peterka -- Dylan Cozens -- Jack Quinn
Rasmus Asplund -- Casey Mittelstadt -- Victor Olofsson
Zemgus Girgensons -- Tyson Jost -- Kyle Okposo
Mattias Samuelsson -- Rasmus Dahlin
Owen Power -- Henri Jokiharju
Casey Fitzgerald -- Ilya Lyubushkin
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
Craig Anderson
Scratched: Vinnie Hinostroza, Peyton Krebs, Lawrence Pilut
Injured:Jacob Bryson (lower body), Eric Comrie (lower body)
Status report
Perbix will play after missing three games because of a lower-body injury. Koepke is expected to play after being out three games because of an upper-body injury. … After being away from the Lightning for personal reasons, Bellemare traveled with the team and could play. … Balcers did not travel. The forward, who was injured during a 5-2 win against the St. Louis Blues on Friday, was placed on injured reserve. … The Lightning assigned forward
Alex Barre-Boulet
to Syracuse of the American Hockey League on Monday. … Asplund will be back in the lineup for the Sabres after missing two games with an upper-body injury.