The Sabres are looking to be big-time sellers at the NHL trade deadline, but Buffalo will retain two of their best players.

The Buffalo Sabres just can’t seem to figure out the Montreal Canadiens this season. Buffalo is now 0-3-0 against them this year and Lindy Ruff is especially annoyed because he feels his team just handed them the two games in Buffalo.

The past 58 games have revealed the team's roster needs more experience, leadership, toughness and players who can execute coach Lindy Ruff’s system that necessitates quick decision-making.

Ruff came into this season needing 36 wins to become just the fifth coach in NHL history to 900 wins. He's still 14 shy with 28 games left. Can the Sabres win half of what's left?

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Lindy Ruff of course has been watching the 4 Nations Face-Off and very much enjoying the hockey, but it wasn't all fun and games for the Buffalo Sabres head coach during their 10 ...

While underscoring how disappointing the season has been, the Sabres spinned the positives and pitched the long view.

Each goal the Buffalo Sabres allowed Saturday night, most notably Alex Newhook’s game winner in the dying moments of the second period, resulted from what they consider avoidable mistakes. Those miscues amounted to a 4-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens at KeyBank Center.

In the waning seconds of Saturday’s second period, with skaters at four per side following coincidental minors, the Sabres went into penalty-mode killing mode.

The Buffalo winger doesn’t pay attention to trade rumors, even those involving his name, and doesn’t use social media.

The Sabres are 0-2-0 so far this season against the Canadiens, who opened the season series with a back-and-forth 7-5 win at KeyBank Center on Nov. 11. In the rematch at Bell Centre on Dec. 17, Patrik Laine’s three power-play goals helped fuel the Canadiens to a 6-1 victory.

The Montreal Canadiens seek their fourth straight win when they visit the Buffalo Sabres Saturday night for the first of a home-and-home series.