Buffalo Boy's Blog

Another loss. Another loss in which we coughed up leads and made key mistakes when it counted. True, the effort was better, but how did we get from "Stanley Cup Contender" per word of Lindy Ruff to "The effort was better".

Our standards have fallen just six games into the regular season. The fact is the same problem exists on this team that was there last year and the previous two years that this team didn't make the playoffs. They have no finish.

Thomas Vanek used to be a finisher and now he can have five or six quality scoring chances and come up with squat on a nightly basis.

Wednesday night we play Atlanta, Im laying it out there now, if we fall to what is essentially 1-6 (I don't count pity points in my standings) it will be time to start pressing panic buttons.

A lot of people are trying to lay blame and to be honest, I don't have a problem with Lindy Ruff, but geez, at some point some blame has to be laid at the feet of the coaches, whether its Lindy or his assistants for not getting the job done with the power play. Its been non-existent. 

Its time to either shake things up in the coaching department either fire and assistant or bring on a power play specialist to get this thing going again. Rick Martin anyone? Scott Arniel?

Useless: Rob Niedermayer he had nary a point and was a -1 with no shots on goal and sat in the box for two minutes. Craig Rivet was a close second, Tim Connolly a close third despite having an assist, even when he does contribute the other 95% of the game hes useless.

Star: Cody McCormick scored his first goal as a Sabre, he fights, hits, and apparently hes got some hands too, looking forward to more of that.