Game 2 is underway. Bfloblog has an open thread. Go Sabres!

UPDATE: It’s 2-2 with 12:54 left in the third period. LET’S GO, BUFF-A-LO!

UPDATE 2: WOOOO!!! 3-2 B’lo, time ticking down…

UPDATE 3: Sabres win!!! They survive nearly two minutes of, effectively, 6-on-4 play (a power play plus an empty net on the Rangers’ end), made possible by a very questionable late penalty call that had Lindy Ruff screaming at the refs even after the game was over and Buffalo had won. Karmic payback for the iffy penalty that the Islanders were called for late in Game 3 of that series, perhaps, but anyway the Sabres escaped. So Buffalo survives despite being “thoroughly outplayed for the first 40 minutes,” in the words of the WGR 550 postgame guy.