The Buffalo Sabres are struggling with injuries on the blue line right now.
Upper-body injuries have taken Marco Scandella (six games), Jake McCabe (four games) and Casey Nelson (one game) out of the lineup.
Matt Hunwick still hasn’t made his Buffalo debut, missing 30 games with a neck injury.
All of these injuries have forced the Sabres to get creative on defense.
The team finally called up 22-year-old Lawrence Pilut from the Rochester Americans, and Pilut has been a pleasant surprise.
This past Friday, the Sabres then recalled Matt Tennyson from Rochester - his fourth recall of the season.