‘”We didn’t play hard enough in the areas we need to play hard,” Sabres coach Don Granato said. “We were too slow that we hit goalposts. Their goalie, I thought, played real well. But the bottom line is we could’ve won a game but we didn’t go attack a game like we needed to. We certainly could’ve won the game, but did we play the way we needed to play? No, we didn’t.”‘