So much for the 2 week break to get things right....

I apologize in advance for those of you who still hold out hope that this team is going to do anything in the playoffs.  After watching tonight's abomination of a hockey game and seeing last nights effort in Pittsburgh A few things came abundantly clear to me.

1) This team is so devoid of offensive talent that I think there are many teams in the AHL that could beat us on any given night. Watching Washington's third line skate circles around us tonight was absolutely appalling.  Not to mention how even when we pull our goalie we cant get the puck out of our OWN zone.  The passing tonight was as bad as I have seen from any NHL team in a long time.

2) We no longer have any kind of team speed.  We are slow out of the zone, into the zone, and I think we had a grand total of 30 seconds of possession time in the Washington zone.  We might as well had just not even bothered to attempt to score (which is what it looked like for most of the game) and just lined all five guys up on the defensive blue line and pray that we don't give up a goal.

3) We are wasting the talents of Ryan Miller and by the time that we...cough cough...get enough talent around him to do some serious damage in the playoffs he might have gray hair or we will have traded him so we can get more third and fourth round draft picks that we can bring up through the minor league system and then let run off to greener pastures when they are finally decent players in the NHL (insert the most likely course of action with Tyler Myers).

4) I have no idea how any of you in Buffalo can stand to watch this team night after night.  Don't get me wrong I love this team with all my heart and sincerely want to see them succeed but they never put forth the effort to do so.  While the elite teams in the league like Washington and Pittsburgh and to a smaller extent Ottawa made significant changes that will actually help their team in the playoffs we add surprise surprise another GRINDER with limited offensive capabilities.

I am going to continue to hold out hope that they will improve drastically over the next few games.  Remember we are only 10 points up on the 8th seed in the conference and the way we have been and are currently playing I am getting worried.  I would say that I hope that they don't make the playoffs so that we can get rid of half this team and maybe get some real talent but I know that would never ever happen so here's to hoping for the best but I am not getting my hopes up.  GO SABRES!!!