Know Your Enemy, Sabres Pacific Edition: Should Sabres Throttle Ducks Again Next Year?The Buffalo Sabres have failed in one consistent way in recent years — namely, that they haven’t played Stanley Cup playoff hockey in nearly a decade-and-a-half. Thus, there’s an inordinate amount of pressure on the Sabres to be a playoff team this year. And as we’ve seen in the NHL’s overtime/shootout era, teams can make or miss the playoffs by only one or two standings points, so it’s not an exaggeration to say that just about every game is going to be important to Buffalo’s playoff hopes.

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