Dan Bylsma looked up at the scoreboard, saw the Sabres in a two-goal deficit with 11 minutes to go Saturday and thought maybe – just maybe – the game was over. Then the coach looked along the bench at his players. He noticed the resolve that has been in place since the preseason.
“There’s no sag in our team,” Bylsma said Sunday. “There’s no droop in our shoulders. We keep on playing. We keep on playing the right way and think we can win hockey games and come back playing that way.”
Buffalo’s belief in itself is well-founded.