Buffalo Boy's Blog

As sharp as they looked last night, tonight they looked like trash. The first period was almost unwatchable as New York took a 2-0 lead and every feeble attempt that the Sabres made to get back into this one, the Rangers came right back.

Not only did they take liberties with Ryan Miller all night, other than a cross checking call on Steve Montador, we pretty much let them.

I'm going to start a few lists here tonight, one is the useless player of the night and the other is the star of the night. Some nights there may not be one in one category, other nights they may be more than one in each, but tonight I have one in each.

Useless tonight: Craig Rivet, actually he's been useless pretty much since the beginning of last season, he is slow and listless for the most part and instead of playing angles he looks like hes trying to keep up with guys faster than him, he can't and therefore he is useless. Find an excuse to sit him. I know he is the captain, but he sucks right now, I'm sorry, I can't be nice about this because he pretty much allowed 3 goals to happen. If you are slow you better be using what grit and toughness you have to hit opposing forwards in front of or next to the net and Rivet is doing neither. Mike Weber, Chris Butler...anybody but Craig Rivet right now.

Star: Jordan Leopold, two goals and an assist, what a pleasant surprise. He shouldn't be carrying the team offensively, where Thomas Vanek was (-4) and Jason Pominville were was beyond me, but hey, any night a defenseman wants to chip in for three points be my guest, especially when Tyler Myers had a bit of a rough night.