‘”We definitely tightened up in the third period, squeezed our stick a little more,” Buffalo coach Don Granato said. “But I didn’t feel we were bad. Again, I guess the word I keep using is hesitation. We need to be assertive. When we struggled in the third, we hesitated, maybe took a step back. … These situations that’s happened to us in the last few days, when you’re not getting what you want, you tend to be more hesitant, and we can’t have that happen.”‘