‘“We came out flying,” said Sabres forward Matt Ellis, who played his 300th NHL game. “We had some good spurts. The trend with our team is we have some real good spells, and then we put ourselves in trouble or shoot ourselves in the foot, whether it be a bad penalty or a missed assignment. “We did certain things to let them take over the hockey game. That’s why we’re kind of sitting here trying to figure out what went wrong.”’