Rangers against the Buffalo Sabres.
The Rangers and Sabres meet for the first time this season, after splitting four games last season. The Rangers are coming off a tough loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning in a shootout, while Buffalo is coming off a much needed overtime winner from Jason Pominville at home. The Rangers are the team thats had rest, receiving a day off from their loss to Tampa, while Buffalo will be playing their second game in 24 hours. The Rangers will be without a good porting of their defensemen, with Michael Sauer going down with a concussion after the Maple Leafs game. Despite the two consecutive losses, the Rangers have not been completely out of the games that they've played. Brad Richards is still paying dividends with a seven game point streak currently going. What the Rangers need is a bit more secondary scoring. Players like Brandon Dubinsky and Brian Boyle have yet to do anything spectacular this season, and in order for the Rangers to start picking up their play again, they need to start getting their game in gear.The Buffalo Sabres are plagued this season. Mostly with injuries. Eight players for the Sabres are currently on injured reserve, and it been shown how it has affected their play as they struggle to get wins. It's hard to get any kind of cohesiveness going with your team when there's a new player going down so often. However, players like Tomas Vanek and Jason Pominville have been leading this team during their tough times with injuries. The Rangers will have to do their best to keep a chokehold on those two if they want to give themselves a chance to win tonight.
The Diagnosis
As I said before, the Rangers have not been completely incompetent in their past two losses. In both games, they've been in the game right to the end. I think their resilience is unmatched when it comes to playing the Sabres, and I think that will show if they can get beck to their game of grinding out wins.
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