The Buffalo Sabres are not a good team. They haven’t been a good team for a while. They have a -54 goal differential, which means two things: they do not score and other teams score on them a lot. They allow 3.27 goals a game on average while scoring 2.25 - that’s a recipe for the basement.
So why is it, then, that the Blues and Sabres battled through a game where a scoreless tie was the norm? The tie didn’t get broken until Carl Gunnarsson scored his fifth goal of the season with 5:41 remaining.