EDMONTON - Before the Sabres took the ice to play the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday night, Dan Bylsma spoke of an adjustment period for Kyle Okposo to get acclimated to his new system and his new teammates. As it turned out, that adjustment took less than three minutes.
Okposo looked plenty comfortable playing on the right wing of Sam Reinhart and Ryan O'Reilly and scored his first goal as a Sabre 2:37 into the contest. He then earned an assist on O'Reilly's power-play goal less than five minutes later. Thus marked the beginning of a 6-2 win for the Sabres, who handed the Oilers their first-ever loss at Rogers Place.
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