Penguins Buffaloed, Drop Shootout to Sabres
Beware the Sabres.
That’s a warning that hasn’t been sounded around the league for quite some time. Not with Buffalo poised to miss the playoffs for a tenth-straight season. But the Sabres just might be a team to be reckoned with in the not-too-distant future.
The Pens lost to those improving Sabres, 4-3, in a shootout last night at KeyBank Center. If our guys appeared to be a tad sluggish skating in the second of back-to-back games, the home team contributed a great deal by not affording us much room to operate.
Bryan Rust nearly staked us to an early lead at 15:41 of the first period, but his shorthanded bid rang harmlessly off a goal post. Minutes later Mattias Samuelsson set up Tage Thompson to the right of our net. How a 6’7” winger escaped the Pens’ attention is hard to say, but he was all alone. With Casey DeSmith at his mercy, Thompson ripped a shot home high glove side.
Sidney Crosby evened the score while working with the man advantage 26 ticks into the second frame.