8-7 epic against the Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>, Ruff already had his sights set on the Sharks.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m already onto the, \u2018Got to guard against the emotional letdown for next game.\u2019 I\u2019m already onto that one,\u201d the coach said. \u201cHuge emotional game. The guys gave everything they had. I don\u2019t think there was a guy that didn\u2019t leave everything out there to help win this hockey game.\u201d<\/p>\n
The win gave the Sabres (84 points) sole possession of first place in the Atlantic Division, for now, but the Lightning (82 points) aren\u2019t going anywhere. Neither are Detroit Red Wings (79 points) or the Montreal Canadiens (78 points). So, the Sabres just need to keep winning, and they can\u2019t take San Jose lightly.<\/p>\n
Sitting one point out of a Western Conference wild card spot, the Sharks have a heap of young talent capable of outscoring anyone. That should make for another entertaining night at the arena, which has been sold out and loud for the likely playoff-bound Sabres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Sabres can extend their winning streak to eight games when they take on the San Jose…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-531623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}