As if Sabres fans didn’t have enough to lose their minds over as Buffalo’s NHL team looked to take a 2-0 series lead over the Bruins, Josh Allen did his darndest to hype the crowd up even more at KeyBank Center.
Allen was in attendance for Game 2 on Tuesday night and was the honorary person to bang the drum to get a “Let’s Go Buffalo” chant going.
Not only did the Bills’ star quarterback do that, but he also chugged a bear to the delight of the crowd, electrifying the building even more.
After three rounds of getting the chant going, he flipped the mallet that he used to beat the drum and pulled out a Corona Extra to start chugging.
Allen then slammed the can to the ground and raised his arms in the air to motivate the crowd to cheer even louder.
The former MVP had been in town for the team’s voluntary minicamp and had told reporters on Monday that he was “hoping to” be at Game 2 of the Sabres series with the Bruins.
Allen could feel the buzz in the city over the excitement surrounding the Sabres’ playoff run.
“I think just for the city of Buffalo, I think it’s a better place when the Sabres are playing well, and it being the first playoff game in, was it 15 years?” Allen said, according to Syracuse.com.
“We talked about ‘One Buffalo’ for the longest time and it’s been fun to watch them progress, and now going into these playoffs rolling,” Allen also said.
The Sabres had gone into Game 2 coming off a dramatic come-from-behind win in the first game that saw the Bruins blow a two-goal lead in the third period.
Buffalo scored four goals in the final 10 minutes of the game to erase the deficit.
But unfortunately, for Buffalo, they couldn’t match its Game 1 heroics on Tuesday night as the Sabres fell 4-2 to the Bruins in Game 2.
