How to watch tonight's Blue & Gold Scrimmage

The second and final Blue & Gold Scrimmage will commence tonight at KeyBank Center.
The intra-squad scrimmage will mark fans' final opportunity to see the team in action before the regular season begins. And fans will be able to watch the scrimmage live on Sabres.com and the team's official
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The Blue & Gold Scrimmage presented by BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York will consist of three 20-minute periods. Sabres broadcasters Dan Dunleavy and Rob Ray will have the call of the game and Brian Duff and Martin Biron will join them throughout the broadcast.

Since the team has not played a game since March, getting players into their game-day routines and, perhaps more importantly, the game-day mindset is going to be crucial for coach Ralph Krueger and his staff.
"What an important day that is for us psychologically," Krueger said after Friday's practice. "I keep mentioning to you there are still 10 games in the month of January. Never before has any NHL team gone into what all 31 of us are going to be doing - and that's playing without any exhibition games and playing for points right away.
"…We expect another level compared to the first scrimmage and as you've already seen, we're going to have pregame skates. We're going to have normal meetings in the morning. We'll have normal meetings at night."
Assistant coaches Steve Smith and Don Granato will once again be behind the benches of each squad. Krueger will evaluate the action from the stands.

Dylan Cozens, Buffalo's top pick in 2019, and Jack Quinn, Buffalo's first-round selection in October, skated with the club for the first time on Friday. Both players have been competing at a high level over the past few weeks at the World Junior Championship, where they earned silver medals.
Quinn hopes to take advantage of every opportunity to not only impress, but to gain invaluable experience.
"I want do the best I can, put my best foot forward," Quinn said. "I want to try to make some plays out there, compete hard, show I can compete at this level. And at the same time, it's going to be my first time skating with NHL guys like that and playing in a game. So it'll be a cool experience and try to soak it in, I guess, and learn something."

Game rosters, line combinations and defensive pairings

Team Gold
34 Jonas Johansson
35 Linus Ullmark
3 Will Borgen
12 Eric Staal
13 Tobias Rieder
17 Steven Fogarty
19 Jake McCabe
20 Cody Eakin
21 Kyle Okposo
23 Sam Reinhart
37 Casey Mittelstadt
44 Matt Irwin
47 Ryan Jones
55 Rasmus Ristolainen
57 Brett Murray
68 Victor Olofsson
74 Rasmus Asplund
78 Jacob Bryson
88 Brandon Davidson
Olofsson - Staal - Reinhart
Rieder - Eakin - Okposo
Asplund - Mittelstadt - Fogarty
Murray
The seven defensemen rotated in and out of pairs: McCabe, Ristolainen, Irwin, Davidson, Borgen, Bryson, Jones
Ullmark
Johansson
Team Blue
30 Michael Houser
31 Dustin Tokarski
40 Carter Hutton
4 Taylor Hall
9 Jack Eichel
10 Henri Jokiharju
22 Jack Quinn
25 Arttu Ruotsalainen
26 Rasmus Dahlin
27 Curtis Lazar
33 Colin Miller
38 Riley Sheahan
42 Dylan Cozens
45 Casey Fitzgerald
49 C.J. Smith
53 Jeff Skinner
54 Mattias Samuelsson
62 Brandon Montour
71 Brandon Biro
72 Tage Thompson
Hall - Eichel - Thompson
Skinner - Lazar - Sheahan
Biro - Ruotsalainen - Cozens
Smith - Quinn (with Eichel rotating in)
Dahlin/Montour
Miller/Jokiharju
Samuelsson/Fitzgerald
Hutton
Tokarski
Houser
Andrew Oglevie is day-to-day with a lower-body injury and will miss the scrimmage. Krueger said there is a chance Quinn could move to the Gold team before the puck drops.
You can watch highlights from the first Blue & Gold Scrimmage here:

\This article was updated after the Sabres' morning skate practices**