‘What’s clear is that a Sabres-Senators matchup has been one most anticipated by everyone on both sides of the New York-Ontario border since the Sabres dispatched Ottawa in five games of a second-round series last year. “There’s a lot of history,” Ruff said. “Whether that has any effect on it, I can’t tell you right now. They’ve got all the motivation they need, and we’ve got lots of motivation.”‘