Penguins Buffaloed, Drop Shootout to Sabres

Beware the Sabres.

That’s a warning that hasn’t been sounded around the league for quite some time. Not with Buffalo poised to miss the playoffs for a tenth-straight season. But the Sabres just might be a team to be reckoned with in the not-too-distant future.

The Pens lost to those improving Sabres, 4-3, in a shootout last night at KeyBank Center. If our guys appeared to be a tad sluggish skating in the second of back-to-back games, the home team contributed a great deal by not affording us much room to operate.

Bryan Rust nearly staked us to an early lead at 15:41 of the first period, but his shorthanded bid rang harmlessly off a goal post. Minutes later Mattias Samuelsson set up Tage…