Game 65: Sabres double-tap Oilers to ensure victory

Buffalo won in overtime on an Owen Power goal with two seconds left... until they didn't and won 3-2 in a shootout.

BUFFALO — SHEESH.

For a game that had intrigue because of the deals both the Buffalo Sabres and Edmonton Oilers made in the past week and the annual return of Connor McDavid and Evander Kane to the city, it had a dump truck full of drama that had nothing at all to do with any of it.

The Sabres took home a 3-2 win which if you just like to glance at the box score you’d think was a regular ho-hum game. But games rarely are ever so simple. I’ve always had the opinion that game stories are important because each game is its own story to be told, it’s just a matter of the level of the challenge.

This one proved to be a convolutedly simple one to piece together.

Buffalo overcame an early 2-0 hole after goals from Ryan McLeod 29 seconds into the game and a shorthanded tally by Warren Foegele in the first period. Tage Thompson’s goal on that same power play Foegele scored on made it 2-1 in the first and Jacob Bryson’s first of the season in the third period knotted it up.

But overtime is where things got silly.