MONTREAL \u2013 The Buffalo Sabres will look to even their second-round playoff series with the Montreal Canadiens when they play Game 4 at Bell Centre on Tuesday at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
Montreal leads the best-of-seven series 2-1.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the first time the Sabres have trailed a series in these playoffs, but a season\u2019s worth of overcoming adversity \u2013 including clawing their way out last place in the Eastern Conference in early December \u2013 has them confident in their ability to respond.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got to reset,\u201d coach Lindy Ruff said. \u201cPlayoffs is about the next game. It\u2019s not about the past one. The only thing we can control now is Game 4.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve answered a lot of questions this year about tough situations and adversity early in the year. \u2026 I\u2019m really confident in the group.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sabres\u2019 decision making with the puck has been a point of emphasis in their last two losses (and at points in their Game 1 win). Turnovers fueled the Canadiens\u2019 rush offense, one of the most dangerous in the league. The challenge in Game 3 was compounded by five offensive-zone penalties, which led to two power-play goals for Montreal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ve just got to get back to our game,\u201d Zach Benson said. \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ve played our best this series yet. We\u2019ve just got to get back to our game: playing predictable, playing quick, and just compete all over the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2013 The Buffalo Sabres will look to even their second-round playoff series with the Montreal Canadiens when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-640075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}