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Sabres feeling more comfortable with their No. 1 status

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

BUFFALO -- Listen to folks around here tell the story, and you'd think the Buffalo Sabres escaped from the first round of the NHL playoffs with just the clothes on their backs as opposed to dispatching the very ordinary New York Islanders in five games. But that's the interesting thing about the playoffs; sometimes it's not the team's game plan, but the skin they're wearing. And for the Buffalo Sabres, Presidents' Trophy winners and many observers' pick to advance at least to the Stanley Cup fi ...

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