When it rains, it pours for the Buffalo Sabres.

The team with the NHL’s longest playoff drought lost three players to injury on Tuesday.

The day started with news that forward Jason Zucker had been placed on injured reserve after suffering lower- and upper-body injuries in Monday’s loss to the Calgary Flames. He has nine goals and nine assists in 21 games this season.

Then, just minutes before Tuesday’s game in Edmonton against the Oilers, top centre Josh Norris was scratched because of illness and soreness, the team said.

The oft-injured Norris had played just the last four games with the Sabres after suffering an upper-body injury in the season opener. He was acquired by Buffalo prior to last season’s trade deadline in a big deal that sent Dylan Cozens to the Ottawa Senators.

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