We’re 13 games into the Buffalo Sabres season and an early season trend is now transitioning to a legitimate concern. It was an issue last season, the season before that and the season before that.
Goal scoring.
The Sabres were the lowest scoring team in the NHL last season, tied for the fifth worst in the 2016-17 season, and fifth worst again in the 2015-16 season.
It’s the same story year after year and so far, this season has been no different. They rely too much on the top of the roster to carry them, the depth scoring isn’t there, and they have a hard time scoring at even strength.