It'd be easy for the Buffalo Sabres to suffer a letdown. "You've got to keep the foot on the gas for sure," Samuelsson told Matt Larkin of Daily Faceoff. Buffalo Sabres' Mattias Samuelsson builds strong case as the NHL's most improved player for the 2025-26 seasonSamuelsson entered the campaign facing no shortage of criticism. And you can sense that, if [our opponents] score the first goal, we are down in games, there's no panic. Last season, Buffalo finished with 14 comeback wins, the fourth-lowest total in the NHL, according to More Hockey Stats.