Sabres show they haven’t given up on season after dominating Rangers: 6 takeaways

Before the Sabres returned from a two-week break between games, Lindy Ruff wasn’t speaking like the coach of the last-place team in the Eastern Conference. He talked about breaking the season into five-game segments and getting 7 out of every 10 possible points the rest of the way to climb back into the race. The Sabres began Saturday 12 points out of the second wild-card spot with only 28 games to play, a near-impossible climb. Full Story by Matthew Fairburn at nytimes.com