Well, if you were afraid that the Buffalo Sabres were going to show some rust in their first game back from their bye week, the first period in Colorado tonight was exactly what you didn’t want to see.
Buffalo surrendered three goals in the first fifteen minutes of their game against the Avalanche, including a goal by former-Sabres player Mikhail Grigorenko, his seventh of the season.
Calling the Sabres a flaming mess in their defensive end might by too kind – this is the Avalanche we are talking about here, people. THE WORST TEAM IN THE NHL.