BUFFALO Adidas Chris Tierney Jersey , N.Y. (AP) Sabres forward Jack Eichel has a sprained right ankle and coach Phil Housley says it’s premature to rule out Buffalo’s leading scorer for the remainder of the season.Housley said Eichel will miss four to six weeks, putting the player in a position to return in the final weeks of the season even though Buffalo might not have much to play for at that point. The Sabres are last in the Eastern Conference standings and sit 19 points out of the playoff contention with 27 games left.”We’ve still got a lot to prove this season still,” Housley said on Sunday before Buffalo’s home game against Colorado and a day after Eichel was hurt in a 4-2 win at Boston. ”We’ve still got a lot of games at home here left. We want to win these games not only for our fans but to build on things.”Eichel was hurt during the first period while attempting to play the puck behind the Bruins net. He was checked from behind by Boston’s Matt Grzelcyk and fell awkwardly into the boards.Eichel leads Buffalo with 22 goals and 53 points in 55 games in his third season since being selected with the No. 2 pick in the 2015 draft. Eichel became the franchise’s highest-paid player after signing an eight-year, $80 million contract extension in October. The contract kicks in next season.Eichel missed the first 21 games of the 2016-17 season with a sprained left ankle.The injury depletes the offensively challenged Sabres of their most consistent threat, and who’s production has heated up over the past two months. Eichel has 15 goals and 34 points in his past 30 games, and was part of a power-play unit that has converted 13 of its past 39 chances.”Yeah, it’s difficult, especially the way he’s been playing the last two and a half months Adidas Gabriel Gagne Jersey ,” Housley said. ”He’s really come into his own.”Buffalo began the day tied with Arizona for last in the NHL with 128 goals, and last with 77 goals scored in five-on-five situations.The Sabres called up forward Nicholas Baptiste from Rochester, their American Hockey League affiliate.— Former Montreal Canadiens captain Max Pacioretty will play his first game in Montreal on Saturday since being traded to the Vegas Golden Knights on the eve of training camp.Pacioretty, who was the Montreal captain for three seasons beginning in 2015, was traded for forward Tomas Tatar, prospect Nick Suzuki and a second-round draft pick in 2019.Pacioretty is off to a slow start with his new team with two goals in 12 games. He missed four games after taking a shoulder in the nose from Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Braydon Coburn and returned Tuesday in a 3-1 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs.Article continues below ...Pacioretty had two shots in 20:13 of ice time in the Golden Knights’ 5-3 win over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday in which the Knights lost a 3-0 lead and rebounded for win.After a trip to the Stanley Cup Final this past spring, the Golden Knights (7-8-1) have been inconsistent. Since winning three games in a row Oct. 13-20, their only consecutive wins this season Adidas Mikkel Boedker Jersey , they are 3-4-1. They are still without suspended defenseman Nate Schmidt and injured center Paul Statsny.“We were faced with a lot of adversity early on with injuries and a bit of a tough start and with (Nate Schmidt) being out, but the atmosphere never changed. It says a lot about the culture of this team and why they had success last year,” Pacioretty told Sportsnet.He said he isn’t surprised by the Canadiens’ good start.“A lot of guys have really stepped up and bounced back really well,” he said. “That seems to be the case often times in big markets, and then also when there’s less pressure, less expectation. You saw with Vegas last year, with the expectations and how they did. It’s easier to skate down the ice when you don’t have that on your shoulders.”The Golden Knights had one of their best offensive nights of the season against the Senators. The Knights are 29th in the NHL with an average of 2.38 goals scored per game.“The puck finally went in the net for us,” Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant told NHL.com. “So that was really a key for us Adidas James Van Riemsdyk Jersey , to get five goals (Thursday night). Real happy about that, and I thought, for the most part, we had a real good game.”The Canadiens (8-5-3) lost 6-5 in overtime to the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday, the fourth game in a row goaltender Carey Price has given up at least four goals in a game. After a 4-1-1 start, the Canadiens are 4-4-2 in their past 10 games and have lost two games in a row for the first time this season. They are hanging onto third place in the Atlantic Division.“Let’s just cut to the chase, I just didn’t play very good (Thursday night),” Price told NHL.com. “It’s all upstairs. I’ve got to figure it out.” Canadiens coach Claude Julien told the league website Adidas Christian Folin Jersey , “Unfortunately, that position is one that you can really pinpoint because we’ve got players that can play really bad one night, but because they’re surrounded by other players around them it doesn’t show as much. That’s the sad part of a goaltender’s position is that, as you can see, we’re looking more at him when the rest of our team wasn’t any better.”The Canadiens will be without forward Joel Armia for a second game. He will be out six to eight weeks because of a knee injury.