There haven’t been too many games where you can say the Buffalo Sabres got outworked for much of the game, but Saturday’s loss to the New York Islanders was one of them.

Jean-Gabriel Pageau, who scored in the first meeting between the Sabres and Islanders at the start of the month, missed Friday’s game in Washington and is considered day to day. He joined a list of injured forwards that already included last season’s leading point scorer, Mathew Barzal, as well as offseason addition Anthony Duclair.