Over their past few games, the Buffalo Sabres have been developing an extremely worrying, yet familiar, habit. Every game seems like it takes them at least a period to get going, but last night against the Hurricanes, they took it to a new level.
The Sabres took two full periods to find their legs last night, and ended up digging themselves a hole too deep to crawl out of in a 3-1 loss to the ‘Canes.
Despite all their talk in the morning skate about the importance of a good start, it took less than two minutes for Carolina to open the scoring, thanks to Jeff Skinner’s 13th goal of the year.