Your Three Stars from last week: Evander Kane, Robin Lehner and the penalty kill. The Three Goats are Dmitry Kulikov, Nicolas Deslauriers and Derek Grant. Here is the LINK to the spreadsheet with all of this season’s results.
The Buffalo Sabres went into the bye week feeling pretty good about themselves, sitting just outside the playoff bubble and waiting for teams above them to drop points. Of course, that also meant that when they returned from the break they would need to keep racking up the points.