‘Buffalo has been awful with the puck lately, but none of it rivaled the first period Wednesday. The Sabres were sloppy with no look passes into the danger areas and mental breakdowns that put Craig Anderson under siege. Buffalo was lucky to only give up one goal and that was because Cody Eakin from behind the net threw the puck right up the middle. Don Granato said, “We helped them tonight, we were sloppy early, our forwards did not support our D well enough and we gave them four chances early before we got our first chance and it was all our forwards not supporting our D quick enough.”’