Sabres at Blues preview: Welcome back, Carter Hutton

Jeff Curry-USA TODAY SportsWelcome back from Christmas break, everyone. The Blues gave fans a sort-of present, going 2-1-0 on their Western Canada roadtrip and closing it out with a 3-1 win over the Calgary Flames on Saturday afternoon. The Blues have been massively terrible on the games after a win, absurdly so even, but maybe enough time has passed where that rule doesn’t apply? Maybe, just maybe, the Blues can shake off the high of beating one of the surprise teams in the league by beating another surprise team?

The Buffalo Sabres haven’t made the playoffs since 2011, good for the second-longest playoff drought in the NHL behind the Carolina Hurricanes. It’s only appropriate then that a…