The Buffalo Sabres are just one game into the 2025-26 regular season, and already the adversity is starting to pile up. After being without defenseman Owen Power and goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen for the first game of the year Thursday against the New York Rangers,

Ruff said he talked with the team before Friday’s practice, and the Sabres are working with a “no excuses” mentality. Alternate captain Alex Tuch echoed that mindset and feels this early adversity could benefit the group going forward.

Just one game in to the 2025-26 NHL season, the Buffalo Sabres have as many as five starters with injury concerns. This includes one of their best performers this preseason.

Zach Benson's puck to the face at Wednesday's Sabres practice took him out of the lineup for opening night and into a hospital bed.

The Buffalo Sabres' quest to end the 14-year-long playoff drought began with a 4-0 loss at the hands of the New York Rangers at the KeyBank Center Thursday night in their season opener.

All of the speculation and conjecture is done with. The 2025-26 Buffalo Sabres season officially kicked off on Thursday night with a visit from the New York Rangers.

Igor Shesterkin stopped 37 shots and Alex Lafreniere’s first-period goal stood up as the winner in the New York Rangers’ 4-0 victory over the Sabres in Buffalo’s season-opener.

BUFFALO -- Igor Shesterkin made 37 saves, and Mike Sullivan got his first win as New York Rangers coach, 4-0 against the Buffalo Sabres at KeyBank Center on Thursday. “He's unreal,” New York forward Alexis Lafreniere said of Shesterkin. “Year after year, he's that guy for us. So, trying to get him a little less work, but he's been unreal again.”

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