SAN JOSE – The Sharks have struggled in the first home game after a lengthy road trip this season, and Friday’s 3-1 defeat extended that trend.
Their struggles against the Sabres, meanwhile, have been going on for, oh, about 25 years now.
For the ninth time in the last 10 games the Sabres downed the Sharks, with San Jose’s lone victory coming earlier this season in Buffalo. The Sharks have never swept the Sabres in a two-game season series, and are just 8-21-6 against them all-time.
“I don’t know what it is,” said Marc-Edouard Vlasic, San Jose’s lone goal-scorer on Friday.