Buffalo Boy's Blog

Im not ready to panic yet but this was a team that refused to lose two in a row the last few years. This year through 7 games, they have done it twice.

Its not the fact that they have done that twice, Its how they have lost. Buffalo has lost because they didn't use their best asset in their four losses against teams that they could easily beat if they had. Team speed. Buffalo is much faster than the Islanders, Columbus and Montreal.

What that tells me is a lack of effort has cost them their four losses. In all four losses there were spurts where this team looked like they could bowl over their opponents and take over the game. Last night was no exception. There were also their fair share of costly penalties which were due to not using their speed and instead hooking which will get you called everytime. Not to mention the lost races to loose pucks that cost them battles along the boards and icing calls

Time to kick it up a notch before this turns into a 3 game losing streak which would be a big time streak for this group. Time for new leaders to step up and make sure this kind of stuff doesn't happen.

As we saw last year a hot start can win the division, a slow one can cost you the playoffs.