Let’s start with a mea culpa from last week.
The Buffalo Sabres 5-2 loss at home to the Pittsburgh Penguins had me on game story duty for the Associated Press and you might remember that one as being the game where Penguins goalie Alex Nedeljkovic made 40 saves and became the first goalie in NHL history to have a goal and an assist in a game.
Covering a team that plays the role being on the flipside of a historic moment meant they had to take a backseat that night with both a game and Nedeljkovic’s moment to write about. The Sabres made it easy to not focus on them that night getting down 4-1 at one point and got thoroughly outdone by the Penguins’ goalie. Sure, they kept Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin off the board, but at the cost of being a footnote to history.
“That’s so Sabres…”
That game is old news, however, and with the team out west it’s time to take stock of more recent happenings. Let’s dig in.
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