When your team manages to blow a one-goal lead not once, not twice, but three times in a game – which is exactly what the Buffalo Sabres did Tuesday night against the Calgary Flames – it’s easy to be frustrated.
And when the game-winning goal comes about a blatant on-call during overtime, it’s easy to lash out at the officials, which is precisely what Sabres goaltender Robin Lehner did after his team’s 4-3 OT loss:
Lehner: “There has to be a call there. He hits him from behind. It’s fairly clear. … it was a terrible ref performance today.