BUFFALO — The Buffalo Sabres have been here before: winless to start the season and struggling to score. Their goal this time is to not let frustration set in and have history repeat itself.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a big believer that negativity breeds negativity, and that\u2019s kind of how we\u2019ve snowballed things in the past,\u201d Sabres forward Tage Thompson<\/a> said. \u201cSo, we can\u2019t let three games be the end of the world, like I said. Obviously this [stinks]. No one wants to lose their first three games, but we\u2019ve got an opportunity Wednesday (against the Ottawa Senators) to turn it around, and I think that\u2019s all we\u2019ve got to start doing: just look at the next game.<\/p>\n \u201cCan\u2019t keep looking back — last three games, last four seasons, last 14 seasons, whatever you want to do. We\u2019ve just got to keep our sights set on what\u2019s next.\u201d<\/p>\n Buffalo is 0-3-0 to start this season and, after a 3-1 loss to the Colorado Avalanche on Monday, has scored two goals in three games. Its power play has struggled, going 0-for-11.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a repeat of last season, when the Sabres started with three straight losses, scoring three goals and also coming up empty on 11 tries with the man-advantage. They didn\u2019t score their first power-play goal until Oct. 26.<\/p>\n