{"id":216449,"date":"2025-10-16T04:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/216449\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T04:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:14:07","slug":"sabres-beat-senators-by-the-most-improbable-score-of-the-nhl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/216449\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres beat Senators by the most improbable score of the NHL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, you simply can&#8217;t predict sports.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nhl\/buffalo-sabres\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> entered Wednesday night having scored a total of two goals through three games on the young NHL season.<\/p>\n<p>And then they beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nhl\/ottawa-senators\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> 8-4.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, they scored four-times their goal total in just one game that they had gotten so far through three.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their goal differential was negative-8 through three games, and then they won by four.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s certainly not a good sign for the Senators, who certainly were missing captain Brady Tkachuk in his first game out with injury. But that&#8217;s not the full explanation.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nhl\/news\/penn-state-hockey-recruit-committed-7-foot-1-280-pounds\/f0f4df6c755f2da0df2b536f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Penn State has a hockey recruit committed who is 7-foot-1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sabres simply played their best game of the season so far.<\/p>\n<p>Zach Benson, the 20-year old left winger, was everywhere en route to dishing out four assists.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Doan, the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nhl\/utah-mammoth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Mammoth<\/a> winger, dished out three assists.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan McLeod, Jack Quinn and Jason Zucker all scored a pair of goals apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Tage Thompson and Rasmus Dahlin each had two assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres are now just 1-3, but they&#8217;re out of the basement in the Eastern Conference, which can&#8217;t be a bad feeling.<\/p>\n<p>And it seems like players probably fall asleep a little better on a night with an eight-goal output and a victory.<\/p>\n<p>More NHL news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes, you simply can&#8217;t predict sports. The Buffalo Sabres entered Wednesday night having scored a total of two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-216449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}