Sometimes a game is an aberration in a team’s play and sometimes it’s a perfect example of what’s going wrong or right with a team. Alex Adams takes a look at which it is of late for the Ottawa Senators.

The Ottawa Senators' first home game in more than three weeks did not go according to plan.Ottawa fell 4-0 to the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday night, and Senators fans responded accordingly by booing their team off the ice.

The Buffalo Sabres (16-21-5) defeated the Ottawa Senators (19-18-3) by a core of 4-0. With two goals from Jack Quinn and three points from Ryan McLeod, the Sabres had their offense showing up, and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped all 35 shots for his sixth career shutout and second of the season.

Ottawa Senators centre Nick Cousins was fined $2,083.33 Friday for elbowing Buffalo Sabres defenceman Jacob Bryson.

Jack Quinn scored twice in his hometown and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 35 saves as the Sabres beat the Senators, 4-0.

Jack Quinn notched a pair of goals versus his hometown team. Thursday was a happy homecoming for Sabres forward Jack Quinn, whose pair of early goals led Buffalo to a 4-0 shutout of the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Centre. Quinn, an Ottawa native, had plenty of guests in attendance to watch him give the Sabres a 2-0 lead in the first period.

After playing nine consecutive road games and going 4-4-1 during the stretch, the Ottawa Senators were finally able to play a home for the first time in 26 days

Buffalo went on to double their lead in the second period, as Nick Jensen flipped a pass right to Dylan Cozens, who beat Anton Forsberg at the 4:11 mark, and 6 minutes later, a Ryan McLeod shot deflected in off of Thomas Chabot making it 4-0 Buffalo. A whole lot of "Yikes" without much to put into the positive column.

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 35 saves, Jack Quinn scored twice and the Buffalo Sabres spoiled the Ottawa Senators' homecoming with a 4-0 victory Thursday night.

The Buffalo Sabres have put together two very well played games and arenow 5-2-1 in their last eight games. Buffalo walked into Ottawa and shutout theSenators 4-0 behind Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen’s 35 save shutout.

Tyler Herro scored 23 points and Jaime Jaquez had 20, including five in the final 1:03, to lead the Miami Heat to a 97-92 victory over the Utah Jazz on Thursday night. In a ragged game with 31 combined turnovers and both teams shooting under 40%,