EDMONTON -While an overtime win over Calgary on Monday night came as a sigh of relief for the Buffalo Sabres, it also came with one caveat. That victory would amount to little, Phil Housley said, if the Sabres were unable to build on it against the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday.
Not only did the Sabres come out on less than 24 hours rest with the same compete level and attention to detail that they exhibited in Calgary, they outplayed an Oilers team that had been off since Saturday on their way to a lopsided 5-0 victory. It was, Housley said, one of the team's best games this season from an execution standpoint.
It was only three days ago that the Sabres were on the other end of a lopsided score, a 7-1 loss to Dallas at home on Saturday. The players were embarrassed with the result of that game, and they've responded with their first back-to-back wins since Oct. 21 and 24.
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