Sharpen Up: April 29, 2021 | Sabres face Bruins tonight at TD Garden

The Buffalo Sabres are in Boston for the final time this season and the two clubs will face each other tonight.
Pregame coverage on MSG begins at 6:30 p.m. Faceoff is set for 7 on MSG and WGR 550.
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen is slated to start in goal. Stay tuned for news and notes from the morning skate here on Sabres.com, the team's social media channels and the new Sabres app.
Here's what you need to know.

Yesterday's practice

The team skated at the Bruins practice facility in preparation of tonight's game.
From the Practice Report:

Sam Reinhart has increased his team-leading goal total to 22 in 48 games, just three shy of the career-best mark he set in 82 games in 2017-18. Five of those have come in the past three contests, including a hat trick against Boston on April 23.
Reinhart said part of his success can be attributed to moving back to his natural position over the past month. He entered the league as a center but spent recent seasons playing full-time on the wing, often alongside Jack Eichel.
"It's allowed me, really forced me to move my feet a little bit more," Reinhart said of the move back to center. "I think it was an adjustment at the start of my career, having to force myself to do it more moving over to the wing. … This part is almost more natural for me for my professional career."

For more on changes to the forward lines, check out the Practice Report.

'Embedded' with Cozens

Wednesday also saw the debut of a new episode of "Buffalo Sabres: Embedded" presented by BlueCross BlueShield.
"Dylan's Debut" centers on Dylan Cozens' first season in the NHL, tracking the forward's journey from the Yukon to Buffalo. The episode features never-before-seen interviews with Cozens and his family leading up to the 2019 NHL Draft in Vancouver, where the Sabres selected Cozens seventh overall.
The episode will also air in two parts during Buffalos' road games against the Boston Bruins on MSG starting tonight.
As we noted in yesterday's Practice Report, Cozens only fought once during his junior career with Lethbridge, in part due to a mandate from the coaching staff to keep its top player out of the penalty box.

It has taken less than a full season for Cozens to double that total in the NHL. So far, interim head coach Don Granato has had no qualms with the rookie's decision making.
"That's a quick choice and decision for each guy and each player," Granato said. "We would never advocate anything like that but, you know, he's in the emotion of the moment and to this point I've been fine with anything he's done with the emotion of the moment.
"… He's had a couple of fights. I thought both of them were inspiring to his teammates, to our team, and they were great. They were for good reason."
Cozens chalked up his success through two bouts as a matter of instinct.
"It's an easy way to gain respect and it's just something I think I can do to help the team, especially when I'm not doing good, I'm not feeling good," he said.
Read more here.

Tonight's matchup

The Game Notes, courtesy of @SabresPR, contain a lot of interesting nuggets such as:

• Reinhart's 14 road goals this season are tied for most in the NHL and he is tied for third in the league with 10 power-play goals.
• Reinhart is one of four players in the league this season to score double digit even-strength and power-play goals (Kyle Connor, Leon Draisaitl, Auston Matthews).