Lindy Ruff shared his message to the Buffalo Sabres on Monday, with their 10-game winning streak behind them and half a season of hockey still to play.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s nothing easy,\u201d Ruff said. \u201cThere\u2019s no team you can point to and say, \u2018This is going to be an easier one tonight.\u2019 We\u2019ve got to put the work in.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sabres will look to get back in the win column when they return home on Tuesday to host the Vancouver Canucks at KeyBank Center.<\/p>\n
Buffalo is coming off a 5-1 loss in Columbus, which snapped its franchise record-tying winning streak. Captain Rasmus Dahlin and other players who spoke postgame emphasized the importance of remaining even-keel in response to that loss, as they had done in the aftermath of the wins that preceded it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is our test,\u201d Dahlin said. \u201cWe need to bounce back here.\u201d<\/p>\n
They will have the opportunity to string together another run on home ice. After playing 10 of 14 games on the road in January, the Sabres six of their next seven games at KeyBank Center, where they\u2019re 12-5-2 this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would really like to establish that this is a tough building to come in and play,\u201d Ruff said. \u201cThat when [opponents] come in they go, \u2018Man, the Sabres are playing well in here.\u2019 That starts with playing well defensively. I think the second part, you\u2019ve got to be ready to outwork the other team.\u201d<\/p>\n
The puck drops at 7 p.m. Here\u2019s what you need to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lindy Ruff shared his message to the Buffalo Sabres on Monday, with their 10-game winning streak behind them…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":497212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-497211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115849876267547894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}