‘“They were reading us very well, in our game plan,” Sabres defenseman Rasmus Dahlin said of the Canadiens, who have opened the season by winning five of their first seven games. “They were on top of us, the whole time. They kind of knew our structure. They played through it, so they came out smart. They came out good. But in the second and third, we kind of put our foot on the gas and changed a little bit, created more.”’