By Lance Lysowski
News Sports Reporter
In the throes of a postgame scene unlike any seen at KeyBank Center in at least a decade, Alex Tuch acted quickly when someone suggested Rick Jeanneret join the Buffalo Sabres on the ice late Friday night.
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