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Season series: This is the third and final meeting. The Jets prevailed in each of the first two showdowns and have won five straight overall in the series.

Last time, Lowry boarded Kaleta and escaped any league punishment. Time for retribution? Buffalo has struggled against Thrashers/Jets going back to the Drury era, Time to earn a real win. Probably will get Pavelec but Hutchinson is just as hot. Ladd, Wheeler, and Little are rolling. Throw in Kane and Byfuglien and this should be a fun one to watch. Mitchell day-to-day Neuvirth starts, does he finish? Grigs and Girgs, the way it was supposed to be.

Two teams in the same situation. Game on!

Just a reminder the game starts at 8:00 pm. Lets go Buffalo!!! PS: 1ST GDT. Hope it brings em luck.

Next up on the roster review, one of the new guys #47 Zach Bogosian D (six years left at $5.1 million per, age 25) Buffalo 21/0/7/7/-7/38 Winnipeg 41/3/10/13/1/40 Zach Bogosian had 61 points in 60 games as a draft-eligible 17-year-old. Cobble those numbers with a man’s body, elite skating skills and a mean streak and the scouts were drawing parallels to another Peterborough Pete, Chris Pronger. It is little wonder he went third overall in the 2008 draft. Bogosian hasn’t exactly been a bust, so much as he just sort of slipped from the radar as a very young man playing in the NHL-quiet outposts of Atlanta and Winnipeg. He’s been capable, but his offence has been just OK, and his physical contributions hampered by regular injuries and a propensity for taking penalties. Add that to the fact Toby Enstrom and Dustin Byfuglien were entrenched as the go-to blueliners in Winnipeg, and Bogosian never really got his shot as a first-pair guy. Until Buffalo. Ted Nolan played #47 in all situations; he totalled more than 28 minutes nine times during his time in Buffalo. Given the lack of depth on the Sabre blueline, there is little doubt that will continue this season. He may have already played seven seasons, but he just turned 25 last week. The question is whether he can rise to the challenge the way his early promise indicated he should, or whether he is what he has been — a good, but not great NHL defenceman. Links to the rest of the series: