‘”It was a very good hockey game,” Sabres coach Ralph Krueger said. “They definitely came out with their A-game. We expected that. They came out extremely strong on the forecheck, and we weathered that storm early and actually liked the way the game was being managed until the final 10 minutes. We had a couple of really long [defensive] zone shifts where we needed to clear them and get out of our zone. Once they felt that, they seemed to get a surge of energy.”‘