The Buffalo Sabres continue their four-game road trip with their first of three games in California on Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. against the San Jose Sharks at SAP Center.<\/p>\n
Before the Sabres boarded their cross-country flight to the Bay Area, they fell 4-3 in overtime to the Washington Capitals in D.C. Four of Buffalo\u2019s last five games have surpassed regulation time, with the Sabres sitting at an even 2-2 split in those four.<\/p>\n
And while 3-on-3 overtime felt familiar for Buffalo on Saturday, the way in which they got there was a bit different. For just the second time in 11 games, the Sabres didn\u2019t face a multi-goal deficit \u2013 they jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first period, after all \u2013 but Buffalo was instead plagued by its second-period struggles, as the Capitals eventually took a 3-2 lead into the third.<\/p>\n
But the Sabres got a point, largely due to their improved third period. That\u2019s something Buffalo has leaned on, despite the slumping special teams, second-period woes and missed scoring chances, en route to a 4-4-3 start to the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to find a way to use that intensity in the third earlier in games,\u201d Josh Doan said on Saturday. \u201cI think our third period\u2019s been really good all year, and we\u2019ve shot ourselves in the foot and started from behind in the majority of those.\u201d<\/p>\n
Overtime might be a recent fad for the Sabres, but the San Jose Sharks have long followed that trend. San Jose has six wins, but five have come via overtime or shootout. The Sharks boast a 5-1 record in games stretching past regulation, having only earned their first regulation win last Thursday, 6-2 in Ottawa.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s everything you need to know ahead of Buffalo\u2019s late-night tilt in San Jose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Sabres continue their four-game road trip with their first of three games in California on Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-942714","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\/942714","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=942714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}