Sabres Home Woes Continue

by David Oleksy on Dec 18, 2008 12:16 AM EST

Once again this team has left me speechless. I don't even know how to describe this loss tonight. It seems that every time they get momentum they come home and lose that momentum. Buffalo is now 8-8-1 on home ice, meaning that the fans have left the Arena disappointed nine times in 17 tries. This is a trend that has to stop if people are going to begin to take this team seriously.

Mike Robitaille said it best after the game "Teams are supposed to be scared to come to your building and right now they are not". Not only are teams not afraid to come to Buffalo but teams almost relish the opportunity. It's become almost embarassing to watch them play at home.

I learned something disturbing about this team tonight, they are not smart. It's probably something I should have learned long ago but didn't. It looked like they had the effort tonight but they made mistake after mistake. I can handle physical mistakes but it was mental mistakes that did the Sabres in tonight. It was giveaways, leaving men open for rebounds, stupid penalties...you name the mistake and this team made it.

Once again it was a disturbing loss on home ice and that is not acceptable. I'll post more on this game tomorrow when I'm not so upset. But for tonight...comment away!

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IMO

“We tried to play a lazy game,” Buffalo defenseman Jaroslav Spacek said. “We didn’t have energy to backcheck and that’s why they got their chances. We’d better start to trust each other.”

this quote tells it all…I was at my company xmas party last night so I missed the game but a reaction like this tells me everything…as long as I have been a sabres fan I have known two things…we are not the most talented team in the NHL and we have pretty decent goalies…now we usually compensate the talent with physicallity and effort and when the team lacks that there is an obvious drop off in production…I have noticed when the players are physical they are more into the games and if there is no forecheck and no hard backcheck, we are pretty much beating our selves…

I think Olivia Newton-John said it best

“Let’s get physical”

by Lion Alum on Dec 18, 2008 6:23 AM EST reply actions