Buffalo Boy's Blog

It can't get much worse than the performance that was given by this team for the last 40 minutes of last nights game against the Ottawa Senators.

A 2-0 lead on the road against a team that has played poorly all season and the Sabres came out and basically squandered the game. Toni Lydman and Henrik Tallinder need to go back to the minors and have Kevin Dineen teach them the basic rules. I have never seen two defensemen look so lost.

How much do you pin on the coaches for this? I don't know. I don't put a lot of thought into the coaches causing this mess. This is the players playing stupid when they know that putting your stick up around the mid section of an opposing player is going to get you put into the penalty box whether or not it touches them or not.

13-1 was the shots on goal and after something like 7 penalties in a row this team lost the 2-0 lead and found themselves losing 4-2.

Missed opportunities. Thats all there is to it. Just like Atlanta over the weekend, a point was lost there and last night two points were lost. Three points lost over the last two games because this team can't take a lead and slam the door in the face of their opponents. That is not a coaching problem, this is a soft team playing with little or no confidence.

Change the players, the coach has proven he can be successful with players who are willing to pay the price and play his system, if the players don't want to play, the organization has the whole offseason to find them new teams and bring in players who will. There are at least a half dozen guys begging to be shipped the hell out of here.

Mikael Tellqvist showed where this teams head is at after the game when he commented that last night was a game that builds character!!!!!....WTF? Character? Maybe in Phoenix a 4-2 loss after leading 2-0 qualifies as a character builder. But around here Mikael, a loss doesn't build character. Winning last night would have built some character. Beating a team that has wiped their collective asses with Sabre jerseys all season long would have been a character builder. Last night was a joke. Come on Mikael, I expected more from you, you spent time in the Hockey Mecca of Toronto, didn't they teach you better? Hell, Gretzky was your coach, didn't he teach you what qualifies as a character builder? 

As of today I am joining the Leafs ideology up in Toronto, I figure if we tank the rest of the season we can finish behind Toronto and maybe even behind Atlanta and get a better chance at the first overall pick in the draft and maybe take a run at John Tavares. It will be tough but I figure if we drop 9 of the next 12, Toronto has a good shot to pass us in the standings. Go Leafs Go.