Buffalo Beaten by officials once more
Sabres 1 – Hurricanes 2 In a nationally televised game the announcers at TNT declared that both teams were playing like this was a playoff game, and it felt like it, but once again officiating has to be involved.
Even though the goonish tactics against our Captain was ridiculous Buffalo’s Captain (D) Dahlin still scored the game’s first goal, the Hurricanes (RW) Svechnikov was whistled for roughing the Sabres Captain no less than three times with our Captain responding only once.
The referees called the first two periods evenly but two minutes into the third period of a 1-1 playoff type game the officials hand the home team a man advantage that the Hurricanes were successful with and then the only other whistle came with three minutes remaining in the game with offsetting penalties, effectively halting Buffalo’s opportunity to pull the goalie until there was little time left to work with.
The Buffalo Sabres continue tonight versus the Predators in Nashville at 8 pm EST as the Sabres play the second game of a back-to-back in what is the second game of a five-game road trip.
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