Today in an early Sunday game at home against the Golden Knights, the Sabres couldn’t score in a fantastic first period then crumbled apart, losing 4-1.
The Sabres looked pretty solid through the first period, generating much better chances and peppering Adin Hill with shots, but we go to the first period scoreless, with Buffalo outshooting Vegas 15-6 and really limiting opportunities for the Knights. Really good start to this game. And especially on the penalty kill, we looked great.
In the second period, Vegas got rolling and with the Sabres on the power play, we gave up the second shorthanded breakaway of the game, and this time, Mitch Marner capitalized, giving the Golden Knights a 1-0 lead with 7:43 left in the second period. After the power play expired, the former Sabre, Jack Eichel lit the lamp, making it 2-0 Vegas with 6:17, cashing in on a great play with a takeaway by Marner behind the net, crashing Ellis and dropping it back for an easy goal for Jack. We’re crumbling here. After we played great in the first, this game completely flipped in a minute and a half in the second. Wasn’t good.
4:26 into the third, the Sabres finally got on the board with a huge scrum in front of the net, with the puck sliding past Hill to make it a 2-1 game and put us right back in here, with the goal going to Beck Malenstyn. The Knights answered right back though and Tomas Hertl got the puck off a turnover right in the slot, went around Owen Power and gave Vegas their two goal lead back with 14:17 to go in regulation. With exactly ten minutes left, Hertl got his second goal in a row, again in transition, getting behind the Sabres defense again and ripped it on a great shot to put the Knights up 4-1.
FINAL: Sabres 1, Golden Knights 4
That first period looked so great, but then we just completely crumbled on both ends of the ice and Vegas took it all over. Turned out not to be a great game.
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