Your Buffalo Sabres just won a real weird one
Alright, Buffalo, wake up. If you went to bed early last night, you missed a game that felt like it had four different endings. Your Buffalo Sabres beat the New York Islanders 4-3 at home, but man, they made us work for it. It was 1-0 for the Sabres for a long time after JJ Quinn got a power play goal in the first. Then, the Islanders tied it up on a power play in the second. Third period, that’s when the wheels started spinning. Tage Thompson got another power play goal for Buffalo, then Anders Lee tied it up again for New York.
Then the actual crazy part happened. Peyton Krebs puts one in with just over three minutes left, and you think, “Okay, good, we got it.” Nope. Bowen Byram scores an empty netter with 1:43 left, and *now* you think, “Okay, *now* we got it.” Nope again. Bo Horvat sets up Brock Nelson with literally one second left on the clock, making it 4-3. My heart is still doing jumping jacks. It was a 4-3 final, but let me tell you, that was closer than the score shows. The Sabres got outshot again, 33-28. That’s something they gotta look at.
This win, though, it’s a big one. It pushes the Buffalo Sabres to 100 points on the season, 1st in the Atlantic Division. That’s a hundred points, folks. Let’s Go Buff-a-lo! Fourteen years, and we’re actually talking about the top of the division. The mood around the First Ward this morning, you can feel it, it’s lighter. We got Boston coming to town next, then Ottawa, so it’s not getting easier. But a win is a win, and you take these points any way you can get them. We're still right there.
Let's Go Buff-a-lo — from the City of Good Neighbors, this is Peg.
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