Score: Islanders 3 | Sabres 1
Shots: NYI 29 | BUF 21
Sabres Goals: Victor Olofsson (5)
Islanders Goals: Anders Lee (5), Jean-Gabriel Pageau (5), Brock Nelson (3)
Observation 1 | Fatigue
Let’s not kid ourselves. The Buffalo Sabres looked like a team that was struck with a debilitating virus for two weeks. On top of that, they were missing a lot of roster regulars.
For those reasons, we won’t do our typical plus/minus game observations. Instead, we’ll keep it to observations, and the first one was that the Sabres ran out of fuel quickly in this one.