Buffalo Boy's Blog

Halloween came early last night for the Sabres, they were scared right out of their own building right from the start as Tampa took a 5-1 lead and made easy work of the Sabres.

All of a sudden the defense looks awful, maybe there was something to having a good balance between right and left handed defensemen. Since Craig Rivet went down, this team has looked more and more shaky.

Vanek who has cooled off a little and missed on two great chances and scored on one which was too little too late. That one was his 9th of the season. Im still waiting for Derek Roy to get with it and Drew Stafford showed up for two games and has since gone night, night!

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, they are still an impressive 6-2-2 so its not like they are hanging on by a thread just yet. If this thing goes three or four games then I'll start calling for the heads of several players.

One guy I still don't like in the lineup, Andrew Peters, for three minutes of ice time is he really worth it? They have other guys who can be tough and fight if they need it, but most nights, they don't need a fighter, they need a goal scorer, Mark Mancari would be a nice fit, big and tough and hes tearing up the AHL right now with 10 points in 6 games. Nathan Gerbe is also worthy of a call up, 6 goals and 2 assists through 6 games.