‘While the majority of the advance press clippings wrapped around the series were prolific in Ranger pledges of applying physical pressure on Buffalo, it was the resilient Sabres, who not only ended up outhitting New York but hammered them further with a free-flowing transition game that left the Rangers often gasping in clouds of dust.’
ECSF # 1: Sabres 5, Rangers 2
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