Zach Benson is Buffalo's 'rat' — and he's exactly who the Sabres need
Benson gets the job done in his own way.
Zach Benson is Buffalo's 'rat' — and he's exactly who the Sabres need originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . BUFFALO, N.
Y. — Zach Benson is the epitome of the athlete who you love when he’s on your team and hate when he’s on the other side. Even his own Buffalo Sabres teammates lovingly call him their “rat.
” Pick whatever noun you’d like: Pest. Annoyance. Pain in the you know what.
Benson may be small, 5-foot-10, but on this night, with the Sabres in the second round of the playoffs for the first time in 19 years, he was a giant. The third-line winger was Montreal Canadiens enemy number one on Wednesday night in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, a 4-2 win for the Buffalo Sabres to gain an immediate edge. “He’s one of the guys that you definitely don’t want to play against,” Benson’s lineman Josh Doan told The Sporting News after the game.