The Buffalo Sabres opened their season with an entertaining, fast-paced game against the Montreal Canadiens that needed a shootout to produce a winner. Since then? Two games that were anything but entertaining and fast-paced, at least as far as the Sabres are considered.
As a result, fan are already hearing coaches and players saying things such as “our effort was unacceptable,” “We’re just not doing enough,” “We have to be able to look into a mirror,” “These people definitely deserve better” – you know, the sort of things Sabres players have been saying during locker cleanup at the end of the previous six seasons.