Florida Panthers Outlast The Buffalo Sabres

The Florida Panthers did what they needed to do Thursday night — beat an inferior Buffalo Sabres squad at home. By a score of 3-2, the Panthers squeezed by despite looking a little out of sorts for much of the game. But a win is a win is a win, and the Panthers are still off to a great start this season.

Time to look more closely at what went right and wrong:

3 GOOD THINGS

Ugly is beautiful. The Panthers didn’t do very much well in their second home game. They struggled to get smoothly out of their end, they couldn’t generate many rushes through center ice, and they couldn’t connect on passes when they got to the Sabres’ zone. Compared to the pin-perfect Opening Night game against the Flyers…