If you happen to be one of those displaced Buffalo Sabres fans who rarely get a chance to watch, whether in person or on television, your team play, you might be confused.
For starters, you check out the standings over at NHL.com and notice that the Sabres are just seven points out of a wild card spot in the Eastern Conference, and you say to yourself, “Okay! The Sabres are still in this thing.”
Then you come to a site like this and read a piece about why the team should consider trading Cody Franson, or should start losing more games to improve their odds in the NHL Draft Lottery, and you say to yourself, “What am I missing?