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The Buffalo Sabres debuted their new Reverse-Retro Blue and Gold Goathead jerseys and gave fans another come from behind win Wednesday night at the KeyBank ...

The third period quickly saw the Sabres go down 3-1. The first period saw just one goal scored by Pittsburgh's Jason Zucker on an assist from Evgeni Malkin. (WKBW) — The Buffalo Sabres debuted their new Reverse-Retro Blue and Gold Goathead jerseys and gave fans another come from behind win Wednesday night at the KeyBank Center.

The Pittsburgh Penguins will be facing a Buffalo Sabres team that hopes to end a playoff drought that began in 2012.

[ Center Dylan Cozens, who has four, is the only other Buffalo player with more than two. This will be the Pittsburgh Penguins’ sixth consecutive game that involves playing on consecutive nights. He has 25 goals and 52 assists in 53 career games against Buffalo, with at least one point in 46 of those games. Coach Mike Sullivan is expected to divulge Letang’s status when he meets with reporters about two hours before the game. Casey DeSmith is expected to be in goal for the Penguins. Remember that trip to Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver and Washington that put the Penguins into a 0-4 nosedive before their 6-5, come-from-ahead loss to Boston in overtime at PPG Paints Arena Tuesday? 18-25, and returned home with six of a possible eight points. at KeyBank Center, are 6-3 and have stayed above .500 since their third game. ](https://pittsburghhockeynow.com/watch-jason-zucker-goal-celebration-salute-imitates-jaromir-jagr-celly/) ](https://pittsburghhockeynow.com/pittsburgh-penguins-buffalo-sabres-slump/) ](https://pittsburghhockeynow.com/pittsburgh-penguins-sidney-crosby-and-jake-guentzel-said-after-sixth-straight-loss/)

The Penguins squandered another third-period lead and left KeyBank Center angry with a loss to the Sabres on Wednesday night.

Pittsburgh was held to a season-low 21 shots on goal for the game. We’re going to have to figure out what we can take from it and become a better team.” — Jason Zucker scored on a two-on-one with Evgeni Malkin to give the Penguins their first goal. A day after blowing a 5-2 lead to the Bruins and falling in overtime, the Penguins squandered a 3-1 third-period advantage to the upstart Sabres. “We had the lead a couple times here the last couple nights. “We’ve got to make sure that we reset our mindset here and figure out what we can take from this one. “I gotta make a better play on the fourth goal. We haven’t found a way to finish the game off.” But much like the Penguins during a frustrating trip out west, no lead is safe right now. The Sabres charged back with three goals in 7:13 to seal the victory, Pittsburgh’s third consecutive loss at Buffalo. It’s the third time a Sullivan-coached team coughed up five-plus goals in the third period. “It’s not a great feeling,” Crosby continued.

The Pittsburgh Penguins travel to Buffalo in hopes of snapping their five game losing streak.

He'll need to be at his absolute best to help the Penguins snap their winning streak. He is still searching for his first win of the season. With the Penguins playing their third set of back-to-back games in the past two weeks, back-up goaltender Casey DeSmith is set to start against the Sabres. To top it off, he just scored a hat trick and tallied three assists for a six point effort in his most recent game against the Detroit Red Wings. The Penguins are in a precarious position. The Pittsburgh Penguins have dropped five straight games and are looking for answers.

The Buffalo Sabres earned their third-straight victory in a 6-3 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins at KeyBank Center on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022.

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The Pittsburgh Penguins squandered a multiple-goal lead for the second time in two nights during a 6-3 loss in Buffalo.

[ A penalty-kill. A blocked shot. “It just comes down to finding a way and being determined. A power-play goal. “There’s no secret in a situation like this,” Crosby said. But there’s nothing they can do to change the outcome of any of the past six games. Peterka beat Casey DeSmith late in the second period to get the Sabres on the board. Instead, the Penguins are playing like late-game leads have been coated with baby oil. And Kyle Okposo. And Alex Tuch. And those two games weren’t isolated incidents.

It was a tough week for the Pittsburgh Penguins that saw them go winless in three games.

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[Buffalo Sabres](https://www.diebytheblade.com) (4-2-0) vs. Pittsburgh’s (not very) special teams has been a big part of their issues in this five-game lsoing streak, with the power play unit going only 3/20, while the penalty kill has given up five goals in 15 shorthanded attempts. What’s incredible though is that it’s not just Thompson that’s scoring - Rasmus Dahlin has regained his scoring touch again, matching Tage’s 12 points.

There is nothing going right for the Pittsburgh Penguins right now. After jumping out to a 5-2 lead on Tuesday night, they watched as the Boston Bruins ...

He was on the ice for three more goals against on Tuesday, and has now been on the ice for 19 goals against this season in all situations, which is one of the worst marks in the league. Goaltending has not been the only problem over the past five games, but it has been a problem. I do not need the third-and-fourth lines to provide a ton of offense, but they can not keep giving up goals at this rate. I am not going to make any definitive statements on the goaltending for the season based on one early season losing streak, but they have to be better than they have been. After jumping out to a 5-2 lead in the second period on Tuesday, they allowed Boston’s power play to quickly strike to cut the deficit to two goals going into third period. The power play has been terribly inconsistent for more than a year now and has missed several opportunities to either put games away, or perhaps even end a game.

The Sabres routed the Detroit Red Wings 8-3 Monday and are 2-1-0 so far on a 4-game homestand ending with this contest. Buffalo has top-10 scoring averages at ...

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Victor Oloffson, Tage Thompson, JJ Peterka and Kyle Okposo also scored for Buffalo. Eric Comrie made 18 saves. “It's good that we're able to finish games,” Tuch ...

Guentzel was spotted from long range by defenseman Kris Letang and scored on a shot to the blocker side. Both teams debuted their new “reverse retro” jerseys for the first time. Oloffson added a second empty-net goal with 6.6 seconds left. Rasmus Asplund assisted on Peterka’s goal and picked up his fifth point in his last five games. “We’ve got to find a way to get some swagger back in our game,” coach Mike Sullivan said. The Penguins’ latest loss comes after they surrendered a 5-2 lead on Tuesday in Boston before losing 6-5 in overtime.

Score: Sabres 6 | Penguins 3. Shots: BUF 33 | PIT 21. Buffalo Sabres Goals: JJ Peterka (3), Tage Thompson (7-PP), Victor Olofsson (7, 8-EN), Alex Tuch (7), ...

After tonight’s game, the Sabres are now the only team in the NHL to have three players with seven goals (Thompson, Olofsson, and Tuch, respectively) and are currently tied for first in the NHL for outscoring their opponents in the third period 18-7. Though the first and second periods were some what regrettable for Buffalo, they brought an abundance of action in the third period and boy, was it fun to watch. Overall, it was a game of experience versus youth with the Pens being the second oldest team in the league with an average age of almost 30 and the Sabres being the fourth youngest team with an average age of 26. Guentzel’s goal was the fourth fastest scored at the start of a period in Penguins history. With some nice work by Peyton Krebs and Rasmus Asplund (serving as pesky distractions in front of the net), Peterka’s wrister was a thing of beauty as the Sabres finally found themselves on the scoreboard with just over a minute remaining in the second period. Then, the second period began similarly to the first - except with a sloppier version of the Sabres.

Victor Oloffson, Tage Thompson, JJ Peterka and Kyle Okposo also scored for Buffalo. Eric Comrie made 18 saves. Jason Zucker, Josh Archibald and Jake Guentzel ...

Guentzel was spotted from long range by defenseman Kris Letang and scored on a shot to the blocker side. Both teams debuted their new “reverse retro” jerseys for the first time. Oloffson added a second empty-net goal with 6.6 seconds left. Rasmus Asplund assisted on Peterka’s goal and picked up his fifth point in his last five games. “We’ve got to find a way to get some swagger back in our game,” coach Mike Sullivan said. The Penguins’ latest loss comes after they surrendered a 5-2 lead on Tuesday in Boston before losing 6-5 in overtime.

Could Penguins coach Mike Sullivan be on the hot seat? The Pens have scored the first goal of the game in each of their last three contests, so they're getting ...

The nature of their losses is what makes me nervous for Mike Sullivan. Speaking of which, Pittsburgh has blown three games in their last six games played in which And, after the first week of play, people were talking about Sullivan as a Jack Awards contender after beginning the year on a 4-0-1 streak.