After a wildly successful homestand, the Chicago Blackhawks have a one-game road trip on Saturday to kick off a weekend back-to-back, starting with Saturday’s game against the Buffalo Sabres.
The Sabres have an identical 4-3 record as the Blackhawks and have been one of the more interesting teams to watch through the early stages of the season. With no playoff appearances in a decade, whatever long-term plans that had been in place in Buffalo were not going as planned, but that could be changing now, as a young core is breathing new life into the franchise.