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Sabres visit the Kraken after Olofsson’s 2-goal game

Buffalo Sabres (4-1-0, third in the Atlantic Division) vs. Seattle Kraken (2-3-2, third in the Pacific Division)

Seattle; Tuesday, 10 p.m. EDT

BOTTOM LINE: The Buffalo Sabres visit the Seattle Kraken after Victor Olofsson scored two goals in the Sabres’ 5-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks.

Seattle went 27-49-6 overall and 16-22-3 at home a season ago. The Kraken had a -71 goal differential last season, scoring 213 goals while allowing 284.

Buffalo had a 32-39-11 record overall and a 15-21-5 record in road games last season. Goalies for the Sabres averaged 29.5 saves per game last season while conceding 3.5 goals per game.

INJURIES: Kraken: Chris Driedger: out (knee), Philipp Grubauer: day to day (lower-body), Joonas Donskoi: out (upper-body), Yanni Gourde: out (personal).

Sabres: Ilya Lyubushkin: day to day (lower-body), Henri Jokiharju: out (upper-body).

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

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