If the Buffalo Sabres are going to win games while Jack Eichel and Evander Kane are out nursing injuries, they will need to get larger-than-life efforts from players such as Ryan O’Reilly and Kyle Okposo.
So far this weekend, that’s exactly what Sabres fans are being treated to by Okposo.
The Sabres’ biggest free agent acquisition in some time scored for the second straight game this afternoon in Winnipeg, putting the visitors on the scoreboard at MTS Centre first thanks to his stick-with-it attitude. Okopso crossed the blueline, had his first shot blocked, and immediately wristed a rocket past Jets goaltender Michael Hutchinson.