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"There's no excuse with that," Connolly said. "I was fine, pretty much pain free. It was terrible, terrible play."

"Name me a team that's won a series and blew two leads and has gone 0-for on the power play," Sabres right wing Jason Pominville said. "You're probably not going to find one."

"I've been [ticked] off for weeks, months," Miller said. "I don't think we've been playing well enough for a long time. We've been getting away with it. I don't know. We just need to get our act together and it could have started tonight. But we got rattled." -Ryan Miller

"If you asked everybody what the truth was they'd say they were pretty tired and zoned out from the road trip," Miller said. "But we grinded one out."

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Haiti. Why do bad things happen to good people?

"I love our team and I love our players," Mair said. "When you look at the young players we've signed to long-term contracts, you can see that Darcy and upper management believe in those players. It would go against the plan to deviate and start bringing in new players because we missed the playoffs by two points.

"Management has a strategy here and the contracts show that. This team is maturing, but it doesn't come easily and we have to work at it. There's a need for the guys in our dressing room to realize it's up to us and we have to get the job done this year."

When you win games it's easy to pick out who's doing well and who's doing good. We'll see now who's desperate, who can come and work hard. -TV.