Sabres place Zach Benson on injured reserve, call up Isak Rosen from Rochester of AHL
The Sabres put Zach Benson on injured reserve on Friday, according to their website, due to an undisclosed injury, and have called up Isak Rosen from Rochester of the AHL.
The Buffalo Sabres head into the weekend without their top-line left wing.
The Sabres posted Friday on their website that they have placed Zach Benson on injured reserve, after he left the ice late in the third period of a 4-3 overtime loss to Boston on Thursday at TD Garden.
The Sabres recalled forward Isak Rosen from Rochester of the American Hockey League on Friday. Rosen has five goals with seven assists in eight games with the Amerks and began Friday as one of three players tied for the AHL scoring lead with 12 points, joining Wilkes-Barre/Scranton's Danton Heinen and Rockford's Nick Lardis, who each have four goals and eight assists.
Benson missed the first three games of the season after he was hit in the face with a puck during practice Oct. 8, the day before the season opener, and had to be hospitalized after a facial laceration became infected.
He quickly proved to be a playmaker when he made his regular-season debut Oct. 15 against Ottawa. He had four assists in an 8-4 win against the Senators, and he has eight assists in his first games, playing on the Sabres' top line with center Jiri Kulich and right wing Tage Thompson.
Benson was averaging just over 19 minutes of ice time a game, has a plus-3 rating, leads all Sabres forwards in assists and has 16 shots on goal in his first eight games, including seven high-danger scoring chances.
Benson played 16 minutes, 18 seconds Thursday in Boston, and assisted on Rasmus Dahlin's power-play goal at 16:01 of the second period. However, he left the game with less than four minutes left in the third, and did not play in overtime.
The Sabres will hold their morning skate at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at KeyBank Center, in advance of a 7 p.m. game Saturday against Washington.