Sabres Dominate Ducks

That's what I'm talking about! The Sabres put forth a great effort on Tuesday night as they destroyed the Anaheim Ducks 5-2.

Unfortunately for Buffalo fans, the game wasn't on television due to Versus owning the exclusive rights to all NHL games on Tuesday.

For the fans in HSBC Arena, they got to see a butt whooping.

The Sabres dominated in the first period outscoring the Ducks 3-0. Buffalo also outshot Anaheim 17-4 in the period as well.

Drew Stafford started the scoring for Buffalo on a nice power play goal. Then, Nathan Gerbe cashed in on his first goal of the year to give the Sabres a 2 goal lead. And if two goals wasn't enough for one period, Tyler Ennis decided to join the box score as well to put Buffalo up 3-0

The 2nd period was a very interesting period despite only having one goal. There were two fights within the first 6 seconds of the period and three fights total in the period.

Ryan Getzlaf and Cody McCormick squared off right off the opening faceoff 1 second into the 2nd period. Then, 5 seconds later, Paul Gaustad and Kyle Chipchura got into a fight.

When the game resumed, the Sabres continued to put the "hurt" on Anaheim as Ennis scored on a high snipe shot to put the Sabres up 4-0.

The 3rd period was mostly boring hockey as both teams knew that the result of the game was already in the bag.

Anaheim scored 2 garbage time power play goals to ruin Ryan Miller's shutout attempt and Rivet added his first goal of the year for the Sabres to give Buffalo the 5-2 win.

This was a much needed win for the Sabres coming off two straight losses to Florida teams. They were struggling but hopefully this win gets them on track.

Buffalo doesn't get much time to rest as they hit the ice again Thursday at home against the Florida Panthers.

Attendance: 18,690

Buffalo's Record: 14-16-4 (32 points) Tied 9th in the East

Last 10: 5-4-1

Interesting Note: Nathan Gerbe scored his 1st goal of the season

Key Fact: Buffalo outshot Anaheim 42-23

Three Stars:

1st- Tyler Ennis (Buffalo)

2nd- Jordon Leopold (Buffalo)

3rd- Craig Rivet (Buffalo)