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It sure feels that way.

Both in the wake of last season and going into this one, Buffalo Sabres coach Ralph Krueger made it one of his key talking points. The Sabres were a Jekyll-and-Hyde outfit last season, going 20-11-4 at home but ruining their hopes with a 10-20-4 road record that ranked 28th out of the 31 teams in points away from home. They have to be better away from KeyBank Center or they go nowhere. Period. Krueger says his club's better depth at forward should lead to better matchups on the road, where the home team's last change allows it to maneuver more freely. He's got tough lab tests for that theory to run this week. The Sabres play Monday and Tuesday nights at Philadelphia, which opened the season with two impressive wins over Pittsburgh and is the pick by many to win the East Division. Then, they play Friday and Sunday at Washington, which just took the opening two games in Buffalo. Since 2014, the Sabres are 0-6-1 in their last seven games in Philadelphia and 0-6-2 in their last eight in D.C. They've been outscored 63-22 in the 15 games. https://buffalonews.com/sports/sabres/sabres-looking-to-reverse-trend-of-not-taking-kindly-to-the-road/article_362e32ec-5922-11eb-841d-9b26539c63a5.html

There will be no easy games, that’s for sure

Maybe chemistry takes times

The Flyers might be better than the Caps. Just sayin

Good work Skinner. Oh our mother of blessed power plays please don’t fail us now

Thank god!

Well, to be fair, almost everything else he says hurts most people’s brains

This is strangely beginning to look like a 1-0 final 😞

That should be two penalties, talk about a mugging

I thought it went in, too

Just love that second pp

Ya, ok

Hall and Jack both with two points last night. That’s a good night

Aside from the first period I thought Sabres played a decent game.

Caps looked like a team that had been playing together a long time. The Sabres looked like a team that had just been put together and was trying to feel their way forward. Sabres were not physical enough at first. They picked it up as the game went on. I'm happy they scored four goals. That is a real good sign. Cozens looked really good. Physical, willing to stick in nose into the scrum. Tage Thompson was impressive. Reminds me of Bobby Smith Hutton gave up five goals again. I imagine that is about where his GOA will be for the season if he keeps playing a lot. Joki looked bad. He threw the puck away to open spaces a few times and was not the same player as last year, at least in this game. Samson and Staal did not do anything notably positive that I saw

Yes, this is more like it

Nice!

The passing is so bad. Just aweful

Joki is playing like crap tonight

RJ 🤔

Love that second PP unit

Cozens was not afraid of Tom Wilson at all!

They looked better, more physical, in second part of period

Or catch it and freeze it