By Lance Lysowski
News Sports Reporter
As the chant from blue-and-white-clad fans reverberated inside KeyBank Center, “Go Leafs, go,” Don Granato called a timeout in the first period Tuesday night to try to get the Buffalo Sabres to regain their composure.
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