Jets at Sabres
First Niagara Center, 6 p.m.
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About the Sabres
Buffalo was eliminated from the playoffs for the second year in a row -- and for the fourth time in the last six years -- in Friday's 8-4 loss to the Rangers.
Ryan Miller was yanked Friday and heard it from Sabres faithful during the game.
"They just want to see the team win and we haven't done it," Miller told The Buffalo News after the game. "We haven't lived up to any kind of expectation. It's been years and years of not getting it done.
"You don't win over Buffalo fans by losing hockey games and putting up mediocre seasons. The last three years have been pretty much that."
In a Buffalo News poll, 68 per cent of close to 800 respondents said Miller should be traded.
Mikhail Grigorenko will return to the lineup against the Jets, tentatively centring a line with Jochen Hecht and Nathan Gerbe. He dressed in 22 games for the Sabres this year before he was sent back to the Quebec league.
"We're going to see these next three games with Mikhail," Sabres' interim coach Ron Rolston told the Buffalo News Sunday. "He's got skill. You watch him out there, he's got big skill. It's going to be -- just like the rest of them, that we ask them every game and every practice -- just the compete.
"So we're going to see the next three games where that's at and then continue the evaluation."
The Sabres are just 3-9-2 vs. the Southeast Division this season, including a pair of losses to the Jets. Following the first loss coach Lindy Ruff was fired.
Cody Hodgson leads all NHL sophomores in scoring this season with 15 goals and 17 assists.
WINNIPEG JETS
31 Ondrej Pavelec
35 Al Montoya
3 Jacob Trouba
4 Paul Postma
5 Mark Stuart
6 Ron Hainsey
7 Derek Meech
8 Alex Burmistrov
9 Evander Kane
12 Olli Jokinen
13 Kyle Wellwood
14 Anthony Peluso
15 Mike Santorelli
16 Andrew Ladd
17 James Wright
18 Bryan Little
20 Antti Miettinen
21 Aaron Gagnon
22 Chris Thorburn
23 Arturs Kulda
24 Grant Clitsome
26 Blake Wheeler
27 Eric Tangradi
33 Dustin Byfuglien
44 Zach Bogosian
BUFFALO SABRES
1 Jhonas Enroth
30 Ryan Miller
5 Chad Ruhwedel
6 Mike Weber
9 Steve Ott
10 Christian Ehrhoff
12 Kevin Porter
19 Cody Hodgson
21 Drew Stafford
23 Ville Leino
25 Mikhail Grigorenko
26 Thomas Vanek
27 Adam Pardy
32 John Scott
36 Patrick Kaleta
42 Nathan Gerbe
44 Andrej Sekera
53 Mark Pysyk
55 Jochen Hecht
57 Tyler Myers
63 Tyler Ennis
65 Brian Flynn
82 Marcus Foligno
(Lineups subject to change)
-- Ed Tait