Sabres Camp Day #3: Blue vs. White Scrimmage & Injury Update

Dahlin skates, but will likely not play vs. Pittsburgh on Saturday

The Buffalo Sabres scrimmaged at Key Bank Center on Friday, playing two 25-minute periods, a 3-on-3 overtime, and a shootout, with Team Blue staging a late rally for a 3-2 shootout victory over Team White. 

The game had no scoring and only a few offensive chances until the middle of the second frame when 2024 first-rounder Konsta Helenius opened the scoring. JJ Peterka extended the lead to 2-0, but the Blue man group rallied during the 3-on-3 with goals from Zach Benson and Ryan McLeod.

Jack Quinn scored the only goal in the shootout.

"What you saw was real good attention to detail, making sure we had people back, getting above people. We gave up some couple opportunities off of bad change, but I thought our work away from the puck really had nothing to do with system, it had to do with effort." Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff said.

Team Blue vs. Team White

Blue Roster

Forward Lines

Greenway-McLeod-Zucker

Krebs-Kulich-Rosen

Benson-Cozens-Quinn

Defense

Power

Clague

Bryson

Clifton

Byram

Goalie

Luukkonen 1st

Reimer 2^nd/OT/SO

White Roster

Forward Lines

Peterka-Thompson-Tuch

Aube-Kubel-Malenstyn-Lafferty

Rousek-Helenius-Ostlund

Defense

Gilbert

Johnson

Rathbone

Samuelsson

Jokiharju

Goalie

Levi 1st

Sandstrom 2^nd/OT/SO

1st

No Scoring

2nd

WHITE - Helenius

WHITE - Peterka (Thompson-Tuch)

3-on-3

BLUE - Benson

BLUE - McLeod

SO

B - Benson - N

W - Thompson -N

B - Quinn - Y

W - Tuch - N

B - Power - N

W - Peterka - N

Injury Updates:

Ruff indicated that defenseman Rasmus Dahlin skated prior to the scrimmage, and did not rule out him getting back on the ice prior to the club leaving for Europe next Tuesday, and also said that winger Viktor Neuchev will be alright after colliding with the post in practice drills on Thursday.