Sabres’ Surge Has Bruins Backed Into a Corner

Buffalo has gone from afterthought to problem, and the Bruins are feeling the pressure in a way nobody around the East expected this late in the game. The Sabres’ rise is being framed as a turnaround story, but the real edge is how they’ve started forcing better teams to play on Buffalo’s terms. There are a lot of reasons this matchup has tilted, and the deeper you dig, the more this looks like a team that finally believes its own hype.