At The Final Horn: Sabres 2 - Rangers 3

The Buffalo Sabres opened up their five-game road trip with a 3-2 loss to the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday.
Sam Reinhart and Tobias Rieder scored for the Sabres and Carter Hutton stopped 16 of 19 shots.
Pavel Buchnevich, Alexis Lafrenière and Chris Kreider tallied for the Rangers. Igor Shesterkin made 21 saves in net.
The Sabres are 1-1-1 against the Rangers this season. The clubs will meet again on March 22 in New York.
Buffalo is 0-3-1 over its last four games.

What happened

Three goals were scored in the first 2:36 of the game, including two in the opening 55 seconds. Buchnevich put the Rangers ahead when he accepted a long stretch pass from Mika Zibanejad and scored on a breakaway 28 seconds in. Reinhart then tied things up, one-timed in a pass in the slot from Victor Olofsson on the rush.
Lafrenière was credited with the goal that put New York up 2-1 when Buchnevich's shot deflected off him and in.
Shesterkin made a pair of great saves on Kyle Okposo in the first period and stoned Jeff Skinner with a glove save midway through the second period.
On the sequence after the save on Skinner, the Rangers worked it up ice to take a 3-1 lead. Kreider used Brandon Montour as a screen and roofed a hard wrist shot over Hutton at the 9:32 mark of the second.
Rieder's point shot beat Shesterkin to make it 3-2 with 3:39 left in the middle frame. Dylan Cozens set up the screen in front that helped lead to the goal.

Roll the highlight film

Take a look at Reinhart's marker:

Worth mentioning

According to @PR_NHL, the Sabres and Rangers exchanging goals in the opening minute marked the first time both teams each scored in the first minute of a regular-season game since Los Angeles (00:16) and Edmonton (00:38) did so on March 26, 2016.

Cozens got into his first career fight 7:11 into the third period. He traded haymakers with Ryan Lindgren behind the Rangers net.

Coming up

The Sabres have three (yes, three) consecutive road games against the New York Islanders up next. Game 1 is Thursday at 7 p.m. Catch the game on MSG and WGR 550. Pregame coverage on MSG starts at 6:30.